You are exactly right... BTW, the article is serious Mega Hurl material.
“She (Berry) said the principal told her she’d provoked the attack by telling the student she would defend herself.”
“...the principal did not remove the student from the school immediately. As she left the school Friday to go to a medical clinic, Berry said, she had to pass by the girl, bragging to her friends about what she’d done.”
Why is this happening? NCLB, of course...
“...city school administrators aren’t reporting violent incidents or doing enough to punish children who are violent, for fear their schools will be labeled “persistently dangerous” under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.”
“(Baltimore Schools CEO Andres) Alonso has encouraged principals to look at alternatives to suspension for nonviolent offenses, but urged zero tolerance for violence.”
“Some educators say his directive has been misinterpreted, with principals discouraging all suspensions.”
“Alonso responded that night that he’d be happy to meet with (Baltimore Teachers Union president Marietta) English and anyone else about school violence, but he said he wanted specifics about incidents that are not being reported, not generalized allegations.”
So... They won’t suspend violent thugs that infest these ghetto schools because they’d lose that precious fed money (that they use to line their pockets with).
“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.
Another spineless principal.... (spitting)
NCLB? Sorry, but that has nothing to do with it. We are coddling criminals. If the criminals are people “of color,” there are liberals who will attack the victim and make endless excuses for the criminal. If the victim is a person “of color” as well, the liberals will dance around it until nobody pursues it any more. The victim will be ostracized for making the “community” look bad and will eventually back off out of fear and exhaustion. It has nothing to do with NCLB.
NCLB causes alot of problems, but it does not erase criminal complaints or convictions.