I remember researching and sharing articles here about Runcie and his rather dubious past as a school administrator. Looking back, it is a very disturbing thing to think about how that person’s (Runcie’s) actions were that great deal responsible for what happened and that how the rotten and bloated celebrity culture tried to protect something like that, with Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney doling money out to David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez and the young activists they represented.
“I remember researching and sharing articles here about Runcie and his rather dubious past as a school administrator.”
From up close and personal observation, those of Runcie’s ilk rarely arrive at the administrative level of metropolitan schools without a lot of “dubious” attached to their career.
This incomprehensibly stupid Supt Runcie was actually named "Supt of The Year"......lauded for keeping arrest roles down....
and given a king's ransom in salary, perks, pensions, add-on$, bonuse$, and so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.
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A Parkland Father’s Quest for Accountability
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 11, 2019 | Tunku Varadarajan/ FR Posted on 1/12/2019, 12:22:26 PM by reaganaut1 ...
Mr. Pollack believes that “political correctness killed Meadow.” A prominent villain in his narrative is Robert Runcie, who came to Broward from Chicago in 2011 as the superintendent of the county’s public schools. Mr. Runcie introduced a program called Promise—a feel-good acronym for Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support and Education—under which students who commit crimes in public schools would no longer be reported to the police by administrators. Under Promise, students would be evaluated and dealt with exclusively within the schools and their associated reform programs.
Even felonies as severe as drug dealing, sexual assault and bringing weapons to school could lawfully be kept from the police. Mr. Runcie “saw that minority students were being referred to the police at higher rates than whites,” as Mr. Pollack tells it.
“Rather than recognize that misbehavior can be the result of many complex problems outside school, or at home,” the superintendent concluded the disparity was because “teachers and schools were racist.” With no reporting, “now there’s no crime. The school’s data looks great.
Problem solved.” But a much worse problem was created: “No student has a criminal background as a result, so once you graduate from school and want to buy a gun, background checks are useless.”
Mr. Runcie and his supporters called their policy “discipline reform.” Violent students had to attend “healing circles,” among other sorts of in-house, nonjudicial remedies.
The result, says Mr. Pollack—so agitated that he almost shouts—is that “mentally disturbed students, violent psychopaths like 18-1958, are right there in the classroom with normal students like my daughter, and with teachers who don’t know how to deal with them, since they can’t bring in the cops.” (Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...