[cinives]

Our public schools at work. School choice or homeschooling is the only answer.

[sure_fine]

ah, the school system Mayor Ed Rendell (now Governor) built

[pogo101]

If 1,700 students have been expelled -- I assume that means in the past 12 months? -- then at least the admins are doing something about the bad apples. But there'd be no excuse for admin pooh-poohing of reports of persistent student-on-teacher abuse.

Maybe it's time for armed guards, or trained (armed) volunteers.

[vpintheak]

All these kids need is to get the living crap beat out of them for misbehaving once or twice. Yes a serious ass whooping by anyone and the bastards won't step out of line again. If presented by a unified front this crap wouldn't happen much at all.

[atomicpossum]

The failure is the parents', not the school district. Teachers can't raise them to be decent human beings if the parents have failed.

[walford]

When told of my trouble finding work after graduation last year, a prof suggested that I consider substitute teaching to make ends meet. The video of the 5-year-old girl in Florida dissuaded me.


It's not that children are getting worse -- they are just not being given any limits while the limits imposed upon the adults who must manage them grow ever tighter. Recall in that video that the vice-principal was not allowed to restrain her, only block the punches and say "no, stop that."


So the police were called and there was a major outcry against that. The little girl wasn't stupid; she figured out very quickly that she had the advantage in terms of who is allowed to do what and she exploited it.

At least when I drove a cab I was allowed to fight back -- and did upon occassion. No one in their right mind would consider becoming a school teacher today.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

School choice or homeschooling is the only answer.

For this school district, yes.
But for many, many others across the country, kids are getting quality education in safe environments.
You can't lump them all into one bucket of slop based on reports coming out of the worst.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Reading quickly, I didn't catch right away that this is about elementary school.

My God.

[Zeppo]

"Stop saying the violence has gone down. It has not even near gone down. It's much worse than when I start teaching, which was over a decade ago," the teacher said.

Please, please tell me that this teacher is not an English teacher...