Posted on 07/06/2019 4:59:13 AM PDT by rickmichaels
The Toronto District School Board’s panicked handling of a fight between two Grade 7 students has left their school, so good it’s known internationally as the public equivalent of a posh private school, near ruin.
At last count, eight school staff — senior administrators and teachers — at Glenview Senior Public School have been put on “home assignment” or “administrative leave,” interchangeable terms the school board uses for temporary paid suspensions.
An additional six staff are on personal or stress leave.
TDSB spokesman Ryan Bird confirmed the numbers this week.
The suspensions came about either directly as a result of the fight itself or indirectly because, in the wake of the suspensions of the principal and vice-principal, the school was essentially left rudderless for the final two months of the academic year.
With a rotating cast of principals and other administrators temporarily at the helm, the favoured option for resolving conflicts between students and those between parents and staff quickly became “sentence first, verdict afterwards” in the infamous language of Alice in Wonderland.
But what happened at this midtown Toronto public school is not a fairy tale; it’s a cautionary story of a school board that has collapsed under the weight of its own political correctness.
To recap the fight: On March 27, a 12-year-old boy was allegedly chased around a classroom by a 12-year-old girl he’d been making faces at as she gave a presentation. At some point, he unsuccessfully threw a chair to block her. She allegedly swung at him but missed; he swung back and connected, leaving her with a bloodshot swollen eye and a nosebleed.
The boy was subsequently suspended for five days.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
” boy is white and the girl is black.”
That explains everything.
Jackpot.
I would say WELCOME TO NEW YORK CITY, but the conflagration has spread to the whole state, thanks to the Main Stream Merde and Cuomo …aka...”Not the Homo”.
My favorite quote from the comment section:
“How many NUffINS can a dindo do if a DINDO dindo NUFFIN?”
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Yes, the comments about any story or video (youtube comments are always a must read) are usually very funny.
in the comments section someone gives her name. It is like Tar Queretaka orvsomething.
What a ponderous read. Then there’s this:
“Neither did he answer why he allegedly asked the 12-year-old boy, the one who hit T.Q.’s daughter, “Do you have any black friends?” Edwards specified that he meant black, not South Asian or any other race.
When the boy gave him a name, Edwards reportedly asked, “Do you have any others?”
Is that now a requirement to prove (virtue signal) you aren’t (gasp) racist, multiple black friends? Guess I’d be out of luck.
Back in the day he’d have made his faces, she’d have responded vocally or at most taken a step toward him...
Last year I subbed in 7th-grade classes with a girl like this. She wasn’t violent, but she had little self control. It started raining and she jumped out of her seat and ran to the window as she’d never seen rain before. Makes teaching normal kids a bit tougher. A class with three such kids, no one is going to learn anything.
That’s classic! LOL.
HS ping.
I'm quite a bit older... when I went to Jr. High in the early 60's, you did not want to be misbehaving, or worse yet, fighting, in front of Mr. Hatch. A formidable, crew-cut, 250-lb somewhat sadistic vocational arts teacher... when he was around, even the toughest kids went meek.
Boys did not fight girls at the school I attended. Boys protected girls.
And back then, did they still allow corporal punishment?
I’ve heard nowadays, that a teacher or other school official is not allowed to physically touch a student for any reason, otherwise will be facing assault or assault and battery charges, if they try to physically restrain a misbehaving student.
$1,500,000
What a circus that school is.
This is the fruit of liberalism coming back to bite them.
What a circus that school is.
This is the fruit of liberalism coming back to bite them.
Formally, no. No one got whipped. But if Mr. Hatch caught you, and was mad at you, you'd get a body punch, or a headlock squeeze. Nothing that left large marks. And, I doubt complaining would have done anyone much good for that soret of thing.
Besides, many of these kids probably were subject or poundings at home, and being called out for disrespecting the teacher was more often frowned upon by Dad rather than looked at as a worthy boyhood show of independence.
It was a half-Italian neighborhood, and the "hood" look was popular, along with well-greased hair and mild juvenile delinquency.
“Boys did not fight girls at the school I attended. Boys protected girls.”
That wasn’t a “girl”. It was a BT1000 prototype in training
hat tip - Tommy Sotomayor
From the article:
Boy is white, girl is black, girl lost the fight she started, mom descends on school with Black Lives Matter activist cronies, who proceed to make threats against everybody. Staff decides to walk away.
Where I’m from, the school board didn’t axe the “board of education” until the fall of ‘85.
The consensus among the high school students (I was a frosh at the time) was that this was a big mistake.
But what do red necks know.
A good deal about human nature.
From what I’ve heard about the “old days”, if you got in trouble at school, you were doubly afraid of the punishment you would get at home, for having gotten in trouble at school in the first place.
Nowadays, there is fear among teachers and school administrators, that irate parents will call their lawyers and file lawsuits first, and ask questions later.
Take it to the school yard and settle it there without teachers or parents present. That would be a good lesson in life.
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