Sad thing is ... the kids will probably pick up more skills that will be useful to them in the future from their street activities than they would attending a public school!
Posted on 11/21/2014 1:35:26 PM PST by Zakeet
A school district that includes part of Ferguson, Mo., will cancel classes next week in anticipation of a grand jury decision on whether to indict a police officer for killing an unarmed black teenager, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
“With the heightened anxiety and activity, we thought it would be better for students and staff to extend the holiday at this point," Jennings School District superintendent Tiffany Anderson told the paper.
She added that most students walk to school because the district doesn’t provide school buses and that people had been approaching students on their walk home.
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Sad thing is ... the kids will probably pick up more skills that will be useful to them in the future from their street activities than they would attending a public school!
sadly I think other kids will be out for no good.....
two sided sword...
I think you’re right.
I believe this is the smart thing.
Umm...
They’re closing school next week in our town too.
For..... Thanksgiving!!!!
Same as last year.
Next week is Thanksgiving.
Most Schools are closed Thursday and Friday anyway.
people had been approaching students on their walk home.
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oh goody
now people can “approach” the students all day long as they walk the streets...
Ours too.
Many schools close for Thanksgiving week.
How convenient for the teachers to have an excuse to get the whole week off from the little darlings. They already don’t have to work Thursday or Friday.
Teachers don’t stop working just because school is out. Teaching is one profession where work doesn’t stop at the classroom door.
Rioting gets rewarded with free sh*t AND a vacation!
All this planning ahead suggests the announcement would be made today, Friday, but it’s almost the end of the day …..
Schools to close in Ferguson (for all of next week)
Its about the children don’t you know..
How sad and pathetic that there are poeple that rioting and being asshole is more important then kids getting an education.
That means the students can loot and riot with the big dawgs.
Students need big screen t.v.s, Nikes,and Mad Dog 20 20 too. And besides they can always get the experience. And enhance their resume for the Democrat Party.
“Teachers don’t stop working just because school is out. Teaching is one profession where work doesn’t stop at the classroom door.”
Misleading at best. First of all, a good percentage of teachers do nothing after the final bell rings, and nothing before the homeroom bell rings the following day either.
Second, teachers get quite a bit of free time during the day with which to use as they wish. Sometimes they use the time wisely, sometimes they just flitter around.
Finally, although the school year is only 180 days/year, teachers are allowed - and take - numerous sick days and personal days off during the regular school year. Funny how they never ‘get sick’ over the weekends, the Summer or during Christmas break. Incidentally, the district is required to hire a substitute teacher to pick up the slack. No other profession that I know of let someone bring in a sub to do their work while they’re out. And many teachers get ‘teacher aides’ as well to ‘help’ (the ultimate in laziness).
I know, I know - “Yeah, but in MY school district...”. I’ve been around the public education block and I know whereof I speak.
Your grudge against the profession is noted...
“Your grudge against the profession is noted...”
Thank you for including me on your list, but I actually do not have a grudge against the teaching profession. For one thing, I am a teacher myself, although I don’t teach at a public school anymore. And I still keep in close contact with several of my former colleagues.
A better word probably would be that I was ‘venting’. As in most other professions, there are those who are consistently hard-working; very competent individuals, and those who, shall we say, really should be doing something else with their life.
The taxpayers (of who most are also parents) deserve to have their tax dollars spent as wisely as possible without compromising the main purpose of school, education.
If you want, you can put me down as someone who is passionate about teaching (if you’ve ever seen the movie ‘Dead Poet’s Society’, this is the kind of mentor many of us strive to emulate), but at the same time respecting the taxpayer.
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