Posted on 02/10/2009 6:37:59 AM PST by Sopater
Hundreds Of Kids Beaten, Whipped, Even Choked By Teachers, Coaches Reporting
Hundreds of students have allegedly been beaten by teachers, coaches and staff at Chicago Public Schools. 2 Investigator Dave Savini continues his ongoing investigation involving the illegal use corporal punishment.
Treveon Martin, 10, is afraid of a teacher at his school.
"I've seen him hit five of them in the classroom," Martin said.
Martin says he and others have been hit, grabbed and even struck with a belt.
"He's threatened almost all the kids in his classroom," Martin said.
He says it happened at Robert Emmet Academy in November but a Chicago Public School investigator didn't talk to him until last week - 70 days after the case was reported, and not until after we started asking questions.
"He holded my arms and he picked my body up, and then he just slammed me on the desk," Martin said.
An exclusive CBS 2 investigation discovered Treveon Martin is one of at least 818 Chicago Public School students, since 2003, to allege being battered by a teacher or an aide, coach, security guard, or even a principal. In most of those cases - 568 of them - Chicago Public School investigators determined the children were telling the truth.
But even more alarming, in the vast majority of cases, teachers found guilty were only given a slap on the wrist.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs2chicago.com ...
Uh....words fail me.
-judging by what I have seen and heard,most of the rotten little (buzzards) deserved more than they got-—
Agreed...our society coddles teens far too often. Maybe what these kids need is a swift kick in the ass...
However, human nature being what it is, some teachers can be quite sadistic, and it sounds like this school system is eat up with sadists.
When my dad was in school back in the 1940s, one of his teachers regularly locked him in a dark closet for hours on end. Another teacher routinely beat him black and blue. It being a different time, nothing was ever done about it and he had to suck it up.
Sounds like my old school days. We could not do or say the things kids do today.
Indication that the school system there has FAILED. From what I’ve been reading......it’s the worst system in the country. Arne Duncan did a fabulous job....didn’t he? /s
This is why a good corporal-punishment policy would be good; have it public and in the open, along with proper procedure and it’s all good.
The first thing that I thought when I read this was that what is lacking is discipline, and what is growing is frustration.
I was watching “Leave it to Beaver” the other day and Mrs. Cleaver asked Wally “Don’t they teach you any manners at school?”
Wally responded “That’s funny, at school they ask us if they teach us any manners at home.”
Discipline needs to begin in the home and then it needs to be consistently followed up in the schools.
Let me suggest that part of the problem is that there is no self-discipline in the schools, nor is any expected. And if a teacher tries to set limits on a kid, they get a rant from a parent who doesn’t care about the teacher or the school.
Watch the movie “Good Morning Miss Dove” if examples are needed. She didn’t strike the children, but boy were they disciplined and articulate!
But that was in the 50’s, not the ‘feel good’ 00s.
With that note, when I was in high school, we had a local badazz that thought he could do whatever he wanted in any class.
We had a male math teacher, late 50s, fairly rotund, easy going, etc.
The badazz threatened a female teacher in the hall. The male math teacher started to intervene when the badazz pulled a knife on him.
Little did he know that this "fatazz, old, male" teacher was formerly in the special forces.
He broke the kid's arm, put him down, and dragged him by the leg to the principle's office, where the police were called.
If he did that today the teacher would be arrested.
When I was in Jr High, we had an assistant principal who was a retired Marine. One morning two 7th grade boys were brought in for fighting. This Marine lifted the biggest boy up in air by the front of his coat, one-handed and gave him a short lecture about not fighting. No striking, paddling or any sort of that, just pure intimidation.
I’ll bet those two boys never fought again on school grounds.
This happened in Chicago? Hmmm... What other crimes are taking place in Chicago and who was in charge of the schools there?
Sounds more like obedience training to me.
LOL! The other night my husband and I were unloading groceries from the cart to our car when the lot boy,gathering carts to bring inside, asked: "Are you don with that cart, sir?"
Afterwords,
Husband: "Do you know that young kid just called me 'sir'?"
Me: "Do you know you just called him a 'young kid'?"
Shucks, when I was a kid growing up in Illinois we used to provoke the educators to get them to “go teacher” on us. In shop class, we would each put a quarter in the “pool” and whoever got Mr. Heinlein to whack him first got all the money. Boy, did we make that man’s life a living hell!
“Indication that the school system there has FAILED.”
No, indication that the PARENTS have failed first, the schools, maybe, second.
True.
I could see a whipping for disrupting a class, but for missing a serve? The part about getting beat for missing a serve is not credible.
Special Ed?
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