Posted on 04/17/2015 3:57:50 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A middle school teacher in Hempstead, New York, is recovering from a beating after a student's mother attacked her inside the classroom. Police say she put the teacher in a chokehold, then her 14-year-old niece punched the teacher in the face.
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Haahhaha. just another day at the ANIMAL zoo!
And those that do graduate are little prepared to compete in any college or the real world.
I got to say I'm disappointed in my parents. They never beat up any of our teachers. /s
Some if us ARE changing it....HOMESCHOOL
I bet extrapolating that example over the whole universe would show there is little diviation to your observation. This is why I am a proponent of school choice. The parents of those 15 who obviously want their children to do well are being screwed by a system that just wishes to warehouse kids under the onus they need be educated till they are 16 or 18 depending on the state. When I was a child, 60 yrs ago, you acted up or got in legal trouble, off you went to reform school where you were perhaps taught a trade but you were removed from the general student population and ceased to be a disruption. Maybe that is the answer today but in reverse, let the good students go to a place where they can learn and leave the rabble in their inner city holding cells till they either reform and move on to prison.
Not uncommon for an big city public school .
Then they tell taxpayers they just need more money.
It does prove that anyone can get in that school with anything.
“A 37% graduation rate in that school district!!”..
Unfortunately, those are the ones with a D- grade level.
Commit a violent felony while on ANY government assistance and you lose current and future benefits in perpetuity
When did that happen?
After four years in the Hartford high schools, more girls have babies than have diplomas.
"School choice" schools generally fall into two groups. The first group consists of "charter schools", chartered by the government. These schools have the same problems as public schools because of government interference.
The second group are the truly private schools. I taught in one of those for a number of years. They do tend to self-select, and so fragment society. That's not good.
However, most urban public schools are well beyond saving. It's worth the risk to allow true school choice there.
I wished my parents stood up for me like that. They always sided with the teachers (as they should have.)
Blaming only the teachers is disingenuous at best. Cultural rot is largely to blame for students' declining academic performance.
Lord forgive me for thinking that this is a worthless race that contributes nothing but misery and grief and gives democrat presidential candidates a 15 percent head start. But I wonder what blacks were like before Johnson taught them that they are permanent victims and need to be taken care of and white people are the enemies. I actually read that there was a time when whites had higher out of wedlock births than blacks way back when. What happened?
Every big city public school administrator will tell you they need more money. And every union leader will tell you they need more money.
But if you talk to big city school teachers, money will not even come up as a problem. The key is classroom management (discipline). Teachers are simply not allowed to remove disruptive students from class anymore. It makes the schools look bad. Gotta get those suspension rates down!
A secondary problem is the the elimination of the trades option. More and more districts are eliminating carpentry and plumbing classes in favor of advanced algebra. Why? Because carpentry and plumbing are not on the state exams, but algebra is.
“However, most urban public schools are well beyond saving. It’s worth the risk to allow true school choice there.”
I was speaking mostly about those in my commentary.
I certainly agree with everything you said (post #25). You’d make a good School Board member, until you were removed for being too honest.
I think that if school choice were the general rule, secondary education would be more like college. You would apply and get into the best school you could. You would do well and excell and move to a better school. Just like college.
Generally, if school choice would allow private enterprise to provide the right school for every student. If there was a demand, capitalism would provide it.
Right there is most of the problem.
THEY should be out earning a living and raising a family instead of being allowed to live off welfare checks and hanging around causing trouble. As a society, we have enabled their bad behavior...
"The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
That is the quickest way to motivate somebody to do something useful like getting an education or strive to get a job and make a living. It would also encourage families to be headed by men - not loose women and the government.
Those that refuse to do that can either sponge off their relatives or become criminals. Those who choose the latter can get their "free" meals in jail or be hung if they persist in crime.
Following the Biblical maxims would solve 90% of the problem.
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