Posted on 04/28/2023 3:20:23 AM PDT by CFW
Middle schools in Portland are facing a student behavior crisis and need more dedicated staff to help navigate the issues, according to a letter sent this month to Portland Public Schools’ district leadership that was co-signed by all 15 middle school principals.
Sixth through eighth graders had more disciplinary incidents through the end of March than for the entire 2021-2022 school year, wrote Robert Gray Middle School Principal Lisa Newlyn, who penned the letter. Disruptive conduct, harassment toward fellow students because of race, disability and religion and physical altercations are on the rise among middle schoolers, she said, and school leaders are spending much of their time focused on responding to such behaviors.
They are petitioning for the district to hire at least 15 new full-time employees who would focus on student safety, mental health and alternative approaches to discipline that emphasize mediation instead of a more punitive system of detentions and suspensions. The district’s 12 K-8 schools were not included in the original ask, but would benefit from similar supports, Newlyn said.
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Of course, the democrats are also now asking the tax-payers to fix the problems of their own making.
From the paragraph below, I see why previous attempts to solve the problem haven't helped.
"Last year at around this time, it was middle school teachers who spoke up, making an impassioned pitch to the district to add more supports to their schools. In response, the district added 12 Restorative Justice coordinators to middle schools, focusing on those that served the largest concentrations of high needs students."
Restorative Justice programs first excuse and then reward the perps while punishing the victims.
They just need a large residential reform school.
“Spare the rod; spoil the child.
Look no further than their liberal parents.
They need the Bible.
Have Marine drill instructors teach the classes. Every morning the students should be lined-up, standing at attention, and it should be like the boot camp scene from Full Metal Jacket. Including the drill instructors screaming in the faces of these kids.
The very concept of a middle school is idiotic at its core
Some combination of retired drill instructors and past-generation nuns should do the trick.
A man as a father and a woman as a mother to children would.be a start!
They do not help. They want a scapegoat.
“…need more dedicated staff to help navigate the issues”
“Navigate the issues”?
How’s that for namby-pamby liberal gobbledegook?
They need ex-Marines to put the fear of God in the little darlings like we had in the 50s.
You’d like my suggestion. See post 5.
When I was a yoot in a blackboard jungle high school in the 60’s, we noticed when one of the misbehavants disappeared into “Juvie.” And, if they made it to BIS (Boys Industrial School) in Columbus Ohio, it resulted in behavior modification. I don’t know how the (majority) black student population reacted because they mostly went away without a trace.
‘Instant justice’: After a violent 49ers game, the Eagles opened a stadium jail
https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-game-eagles-stadium-jail-17743960.php
These indoctrinators along with the lieberal parents who supported them created this “Lord of the Flies” society, well past time the live with it.
No sympathy, NO HELP. If anything cut funds even further until they do their job and start actually educating the few non-feral children, the remain.
Sleep in the bed you made!
My dad would have us line up. He would say “Report” and we would line up by height and stand at attention. Then we would salute...it was cute and just for fun. We were pretty good kids!
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Educrats caused the very problems they are now whining about and will NEVER see the connection between their ungodly, failed child raising philosophies and the uncontrollable ferals they created.
They subverted parental authority at every turn and catered to and coddled even the most egregious violators of law and student behavior. If they refuse to enforce the laws of this country and the rules and protect the offender and refuse to defend the victims, they are only going to get more of what they encouraged.
The left's biggest failure is their failure to see the depravity of man. They have the errant philosophy that people are basically good and want to do good and right and will if only given the chance, never stopping to think for a minute that NO ONE ever has to teach a toddler to be bad.
Live with it educrats and quit your whining. You are reaping what you sowed.
FTA: “They are petitioning for the district to hire at least 15 new full-time employees who would focus on student safety, mental health and alternative approaches to discipline that emphasize mediation instead of a more punitive system of detentions and suspensions.”
So, they want to double down on stupid. Does not work now and they want to do more of it, pure insanity!
They should institute lunch time trannie drag shows. That’ll help.
“Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.”
–Mark 13:12
This sounds like a ploy to increase the amount of union dues to be paid. Never let a crisis go to waste.
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