Posted on 11/11/2015 2:13:35 PM PST by reaganaut1
In a South Los Angeles classroom, a boy hassles a girl. The teacher moves him to the back of the room, where he scowls, makes a paper airplane and repeatedly throws it against the wall. Two other boys wander around the class and then nearly come to blows.
"Don't you talk about my sister," one says to the other. The teacher steps between them.
When she tries to regain order, another boy tells her: "Screw you."
It's another day of disruption on this campus in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which has been nationally hailed by the White House and others for its leadership in promoting more progressive school-discipline policies. The nation's second-largest school system was the first in California to ban suspensions for defiance and announced plans to roll out an alternative known as restorative justice, which seeks to resolve conflicts through talking circles and other methods to build trust.
The shift has brought dramatic changes: Suspensions districtwide plummeted to 0.55% last school year compared with 8% in 2007-08, and days lost to suspension also plunged, to 5,024 from 75,000 during that same period, according to the most recent data.
The district moved to ban suspensions amid national concern that they imperil academic achievement and disproportionately affect minorities, particularly African Americans.
But many teachers say their classrooms are reeling from unruly students who are escaping consequences for their actions.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Talking circles. Ohhhh, that would scare me into being a nicer person. Not.
Let’s try shock collars,bet that would settle ‘em down
This is probably driven more by the need for ADA money than discipline. You can’t collect it if the kid isn’t in school.
It’s time ... PAST time ... to abolish government schools. Educating our children is far to important to let the government continue making a hash of it.
These animals must be removed from classrooms containing teachers who want to teach, and students who want to learn. Put them in cages, in the zoo.
Administrative saboteurs.
Liberals become teachers.
Leftists become administrators.
” “Screw you.” “
Go ahead. you won’t get suspended.
And, of course, they want more staff and more money. There is never enough to shovel into the maw of leftist insanity.
How about an old fashioned paddling room equipped with a wooden paddle which, when applied firmly to the buttocks, general ensures the desired results on the first application.
This whole “restorative justice” is the new thing in mediation and ADR groups. It works with old white people but not so good with homies. Its a joke.
No sympathy for teachers. They shouldn't have gone along with all this liberal claptrap all these years. They're reaping what they've sown. And no more money for public schools. It would only go toward more and more of the same.
Replace all liberal teachers with Marine drill instructors. And allow corporal punishment. I guarantee the kids will be well behaved within a week.
It’s called anarchy.
Dewey’s plan has finally come to fruition. It is not about education, it is about the teacher’s union and ever increasing property taxes to pay for it. Abolish government schools and privatize them, they will be more efficient and you will not have your property stolen if you do not pay the tax.
Michael Lam, an eighth-grade math teacher, said he has seen an increase in student belligerence under new discipline policies.
“Where is the justice for the students who want to learn?” he said, speaking at a recent forum held as part of the process to select the next superintendent of schools. “I’m afraid our standards are getting lower and lower.”
“Replace all liberal teachers with Marine drill instructors. And allow corporal punishment. I guarantee the kids will be well behaved within a week.”
Replace the parents. When I was in school the kids weren’t afraid of the teachers at all. They were afraid of their fathers (with good reason) after Mom got a call with a bad report and he came home.
“Where is the justice for the students who want to learn?â€
Where is the justice for the taxpayers who work hard for the money that schools flush down the toilet?
“They want to keep them in school or they lose money due to the daily head counts. “
DING DING DING
We have a winner here.
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