Posted on 09/05/2018 10:17:29 PM PDT by EinNYC
One teen stabbed another with a hair pick, an enraged mom pulled a knife on a school safety agent, and 12 weapons were seized at security checkpoints on a violent first day of classes in the Big Apple on Wednesday, officials and sources said.
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I thank G-d every day that I am retired and well out of this mess.
Wooo, Happy Day.
I remember the first day of school to be all good...
Year after Year....
In grade school, a kid got stabbed in the shoulder with a sharpened #2. I’m hard-pressed to think of another incident as bad until high-school. And there, I can only remember kids killing themselves on the road. I’m sure worse happened. But I can’t remember it.
” I thank G-d every day that I am retired and well out of this mess.
“
I feel your positive Energy Field...
‘Teens’ again huh? They are going to need a new word, it’s not fooling anyone anymore.
Wow. The Wednesday _after_ Labor Day is Day 1 for NYC? The second or third Monday in August is when buses roll down here.
Well …. this settles it.
No more Hair picks and no more knives, …. for anyone , anywhere, anytime. Oh, and background checks mandatory for all parents that want to step into their childs school.
The Big Apple? more like,.. The Big Road Apple.
I wonder how much real education actually occurs in these schools, you know the 3R kind of education.
Who has the another reason to homeschooled ping list? This is an example of the socialization homeschooled students miss.
That may be because of weather-related issues. In TN, snow days and flooding necessitate making up the time.
One of the incidents was in Brooklyn Automotive. “Blackboard Jungle” was based on that and made into a movie. It featured “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and the Comets.
I graduated from high school in 1969; school started around the first of September, and was out around June 9. My kids started a few days before that, and still got out about June 9, though the ones who went to Catholic school started about the third week of August, and got out before the end of May. That was all up north. Lots of snow days. Down here in the south, it’s like you said -— second or third week of August til about the third week in May.
Back in Indiana in ‘78, School didn’t let out until after the first full week of June for all the snow days we had that year! :-D
I put my 16 gauge Remmy in my locker and hunted bunnies and pheasants on the walk home.
What, no nunchakas? No Browning .50 MGs? No flamethrowers?
Pussies.
A better time, for sure.
I used to watch The American Sportsman when I was a kid. Hollywood stars, a few politicians, and sportsman going after live game with rifles, shotguns, and gear. Such a show couldn’t even be pitched today.
It’s weird that no one talking about 60’s television even mentions it. I’ve never heard heard Rush mention it, for example.
NRA channel and some hunting channels but I know what you mean.
Rumble in the jungle.
We need detectors at EVERY public school, not just inner city ones. Worse things are happening in the suburban districts. Newtown, Connecticut anyone?
And as an advocate for Catholic education. Re-linking to article I posted on FR awhile back:
“Inner City Students do better in Catholic schools”
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3679233/posts
Bring back God to to the education conversation please!
Wish I would have been the dude thinking of bulletproof backpacks.
I have a *mostly*reasonable mind. Why didn’t I think of them....?
Awesome idea. Only coming out of Israel now. They are manufacturing capped at so many units/month.
Seems like an awesome opportunity for someone with some cash to put on the line.
Bulletproof backpacks.
All our problems solved.
Oh.
Hair pick.
Redesigning.
Nothing will protect you from human nature(tm)
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