Posted on 04/10/2008 4:26:59 AM PDT by wintertime
Obviously there must be good kids in this horrible school. There must be kids with decent parents.
Why? Why? Why?...As CHRISTIANS, why arent’ we rescuing these decent children? ( Yes, I am shouting. I am exasperated!) If the legislatures aren't willing to do what is right, then as CHRISTIANS we should be doing it privately! ( With or without the help of our churches!)
By the way, I am not holding my breath waiting for churches to do what is right. There are too many government teachers sitting in the pews, and ministers are not likely to bite the hand that puts money in the collection plate.
But,,,with or without the help of churches, as Christians we should be rescuing our children.
Both English and Berry told 11 News that some school principals are afraid to discipline students so they don’t give their schools a bad mark. Berry said she was shocked by the response she received from the school’s principal after her attack.
“On one hand, she told me that she is sorry that his happened to me,” Berry said. “But then she turned right around and told me that telling a student that I was going to defend myself was a trigger word. I triggered them.”
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/15832101/detail.html
“Young LADY” is generous.
“McDonalds”? I wouldn’t want her spitting on my sandwich.
Let her pick strawberries or something similar.
By Wednesday, the head of the Baltimore Teachers Union and Mayor Sheila Dixon were pointing to the incident in calling for the city school system to dedicate more resources to reducing classroom violence.
Agree but how does one go about rescuing the children? Everthing today is about money. Follow the trail of the money and you will find the root of all evil.
But, but - how will the children get that 'socializing' experience? (That's what I was asked over and over when I put my daughter into a Christian school. People spit out that mantra like robots.)
Gov't Indoctrination Camps, aka, schools, have turned into Lord of the Flies enclaves.
There will be no “next Civil War.” At the first loud confrontation, the police will issue tickets for disorderly conduct. At the first threat of a shot, charges of terroristic threats. At the first shot, confiscation of firearms. If people still want to fight after that, the govt will start taking away benefits and that should do it.
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“Why is this happening? NCLB, of course...”
Actually, NO. NCLB might have made a big difference in this case, Because it mandates accountability by adults who run the schools, and highlights the incompetents by taking students and eventually control of the schools away from them.
However, the City of Baltimore and Legislature of the State of Maryland, 2 years ago, subverted NCLB, which would have required a federal takeover of Baltimore’s perpetually an habitually dysfunctional and failing schools-
Why weren’t these failing Baltimore schools turned over to competent federally monitored administrators to try and undo the damage?
Because a certain uber liberal Mayor of Baltimore named Martin O Malley was positioning to run for Goevrnor and having “his” city schools taken over by the Feds would have looked BAD on his resume.
So the kids of Baltimore continue to suffer under apathy and dysfunction and incompetence and tolerance of sociopathy - and we all pay the price.
But hey, Martin O’Malley is now the Governor of Maryland and says he has a plan to fix the schools if we just pay more taxes and become more sensitive to diversity.
In Georgia, assault on a school employee is a designated felony...it’s a shame that doesn’t appear to be the law in other states.
At some point in the future, it would not surprise me one bit if there was a glass partitiion between teachers and students, much like bank drive-throughs today.
Some people deserve no education. Throw these people out for good.
Bump for later
Hell, there are a number of moves afoot to release large numbers of felons because of budget problems. The problems are growing so fast they are overwhelming the Justice System's ability to keep these types from infecting Society.
Is the Offending “Student” in Jail??????
There are some schools that are soooooo toxic that it would be better to be illiterate and innumerate rather than ever step foot in them.
Yes, I really mean it! Illiterate and innumerate would be better than having to endure going to one these “Hell Holes”.
Sending a child into an school environment like this **is** CHILD ABUSE! ( And,,,No, I don't apply the term “child abuse” to **all** government schools.)
I think a ‘time out’ for the girl probably would have solved it.
Did I earn my public school administration stripes with that?
If legislators will not act, if they are dominated by the NEA, then why aren’t we acting privately to rescue the good kids?
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My wife, former teacher, pointed this out to me today: This is a case that shows the value of the Teachers Union. The administrator (principle) in this case said that the teacher used a “trigger word” (reported on the Today Show this morning) by saying she would “defend herself.” In other words the principle is not backing up the teacher. But the union is . . . when the beatdown went on youtube it was the union that ok’d the woman going on the media. The administrators in the schools are so craven that they don’t back up the teachers, the parents don’t, and who does the teacher have left to defend her (and there are good teachers, many, in the public schools) . . . she has the union and only the union.
I don’t usually write this sort of pro-union paen, especially about a politically dangerous and benighted and counterproductive group like the teachers union, but backing up the teachers in this sort of situation is where they have a legitimate role.
I'd qualify that as government money, as opposed to honest money. It is like a virus and almost all Americans are infected and compromised by it.
(If your kids attend public school, you've got it.)
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