Camo: It's the new black. >
If they were dressed in THIS camo, I'd lock the doors, too.
Posted on 10/22/2007 9:06:49 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
After a week filled with rumors and absences, Ithaca High School has some changes ready for this week, and Ithaca City School District Superintendent Judith Pastel asks that students, parents and staff have patience as everyone adjusts.
The most obvious change students can expect to see will be locked classroom doors once classes start. Pastel said one recommendation that came from the Ithaca Police Department last week was to lock doors at the beginning of every class. Police and school officials are working together to ensure the students' safety. Locking classroom doors at the start of a class will make students more punctual and help identify which students are skipping class outright, Pastel said.
On Friday, an estimated 550 of the 1,600 students in the school missed a full day or up to four periods, Ithaca City School District Superintendent Judith Pastel said. An estimated 700 students were absent on Thursday, following rumors earlier in the week that something violent would occur at the school.
Some parents still intend to keep their children out of school.
“As of right now, I'm not comfortable sending my son back to school,” said Kari Cornell, who is keeping her son out of class. “But I'm so glad to hear that they're starting to take these concerns seriously.”
Cornell, who is a member of Concerned Parents of Caroline, said she wants to see how the district responds to a letter the group sent the district.
“I want a written response from the school district and board members before I'm comfortable sending my son back, and maybe I won't even be comfortable after that,” she said. “I need more than their word. I need to see progress.”
Jerry Achilles, of Enfield, is also keeping his daughter out of class today.
“I agree with the Concerned Parents of Caroline's demands, and I am going to make sure the school district is going to be enforcing these things before I send my daughter back,” he said.
Achilles said he liked the district's move to bring in personnel from the New York State Center for School Safety.
“I think that's good,” he said. “Somebody that's not from the school district needs to be looking into this.”
Achilles and Cornell said they both plan on being at Tuesday's school board meeting and possibly will voice their concerns about safety at the high school.
OTOH, maybe they didn’t want the doors opening into the hall, blocking other kids who’ve already exited their classrooms, but what I’ve seen done in the past is a little alcove off the hall, so the door can still open out without blocking the hall.
Oh, no, I knew you were lamenting her brainwashing and weren’t speaking for yourself. I was just jumping on the band wagon.
Four years of study, and a year trying to find a place to park?
**Four years of study, and a year trying to find a place to park?**
It’s the Other way around
If they were dressed in THIS camo, I'd lock the doors, too.
After Colombine, the HS where I taught in TX had a policy that the doors were kept locked. They open from the inside, but not from the outside without a key. In case of a fire, you can get out.
Where I teach now (a private elementary) it’s the same. Doors a kept locked. It’s mainly a pain in the neck for the teacher/assistant as we have to unlock the door any time we leave the room for any reason. However, it’s not a bad safety policy. Should someone get into the school, they cannot get into the rooms easily.
susie
"The Hamlet chicken processing plant fire was an industrial disaster that took place at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, USA on September 3, 1991, after a failure in a faulty modification to a hydraulic line.Twenty-five people were killed and 54 injured in the fire as they were trapped behind locked fire doors."
Ha! Four years (including summers) and some time thereafter. It’s a pleasant enough town...or was back then.
Same at my school.
Perhaps it's the misleading headline, but I can't believe the number of people on this thread who seem to seriously believe that the students would not be able to exit the classroom.
Careful reading: It's not just a Liberal deficiency any more!
I, too, was dumbfounded by it.
Evelyn Wood should feel proud!
Come to think of it, we are told once and a while to lock our doors after the tardy bell so the administration can sweep the halls for tardy students.
My door opens just fine from the inside, with no problems.
In fact, we have gone into lockdowns before because of drug sweeps and such, kept on business as usual.
def: The inability to see anything good about any public school and the quick knee-jerk reaction to see only the very worst about every given situation.
See also the close cousin found in liberals BDS = Bush Derangement Syndrome
I’m assuming the doors are only locked from the inside or easily opened in case of fire..
I have a feeling they might already have a clue as to the perpetually absent. Lock down only helps the frightened ones feel safe in roughly 40 min blocks of time. And so they further identify these students? It seems they already can't 'control' them. Do they give them detentions? Will the police need to take precautions for their own safety?
Not mentioned in the article is the reason for the absences: continued rumors of race-related attacks between black students and white students.
Well, mentioning that wouldn't be very PC, would it? The attacks between students - it's a mystery... After all, they are so enlightened in Ithaca, a beacon to us all. They truly are a shining example of socialisms' workings ~ /end sarcasm.
Me either, but I guess they haven’t been in a school in a long time. I miss the days when doors weren’t locked, but I also miss the days when a 4th grader could walk to the bathroom without an adult escort, or run a note down to the office. But those days are gone.
susie
LOL
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susie
Ithaca police say a woman has been arrested for attacking a victim with a steel grate pulled from a stove.From professional victim to victimizer.The victim was hospitalized with “multiple contusions” to the head and face and a broken rib.
Amelia Kearney, 44, has been charged with first-degree assault, a felony. The victim was taken to Cayuga Medical Center.
isn't she the fat ugly race bating cow what sued the school a few years back??? oh yeah... a real pillar of society that is
Yep. That’s the one. Maybe she can use some of the lawsuit money to hire a lawyer...nah, she’ll probably get a free one from the taxpayers.
100%, no doubt the money is looooong gone...
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