Posted on 12/28/2007 7:54:23 AM PST by wintertime
Educators at John Rolfe Middle School, located in Richmond, Virginia, report that the school's administrators have failed to enforce the Henrico County Student Code of Conduct by consistently permitting habitual physically and verbally abusive students to remain in the school as opposed to taking the appropriate disciplinary actions as outlined by the county.
Student violations have included repeated disrespect, blatant defiance, student assaults against faculty members, students making verbal threats of harm against their peers and faculty, student threat via email to each other, and even an instance in which a student attempted to recruit others to help him in placing a bag over the head of two female educators, take them to the back of the school, and sexually assaulting them because he did not like the manner in which they corrected him during class.
Additional incidents included a student assaulting a teacher's aide.Despite the fact that the aide filed a police report with the school's resource officer, no action was taken.The student was permitted to remain in school and was also permitted to continue to verbally threaten the aide through offensive gestures and words for over a month until he left the school on his own.The student indicated that he planned to throw a brick through the car window of the aide if he saw her car in the neighborhood.This student returned to John Rolfe Middle School where he continues to bully other students and reportedly had an incident where he threatened another student with a woodshop tool.
A majority of these disruptive and dangerous student violations have gone unaddressed by the most recent principals.Rolfe's first principal, who was appointed in January 2007 by Superintendent Fred Morton, consistently failed to properly discipline habitual offenders that not only interrupted the learning opportunities of other students,...(snip)
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2) Gee! I wonder what the race of these verbally and physically abusive students might be?
3) Finally, what about the good kids who are forced by the government to associate with these punks? If they or their parents refuse, the government school bureaucrats will send armed police to the door. It is axiomatic. The First Amendment ( in this case freedom of assembly) and government schools are utterly and completely incompatible. It is not possible to have "administrative discipline" and First Amendment Rights.
Solution: Begin the process of completely privatizing universal K-12 education.
Public School and “Another Reason to Homeschool” ping.
I have taught in public schools and Christian schools over the last 30 years.
We homeschooled our own.
I am now back teaching at a Christian school.
Take my word for it, DON’T LET YOUR KIDS ATTEND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Student Ethnicity:
VA Accreditation Ratings:
Gee I wondered what happened, literally overnight, to drag this school down to ‘Thug Level’????
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But,,,hey!,,,When it comes to First Amendment Rights forget it. Forget about any constitution and human right to free assembly. Government can and does threaten good kids with armed police action if they fail to show up at “Thug School”.
This kind of stuff in our old district is one of the many reasons we chose to homeschool.
It never seems to end. If America didn’t know better about public schools by the 1950’s, we ought to know better by now.
Kiddie prison PING!
“It never seems to end. If America didn’t know better about public schools by the 1950’s, we ought to know better by now.”
Oh, we’ve known better for awhile now. The parents of children at this school are most likely very aware of what is going on. The quality of the education isn’t the real issue; the real issue is tax subsidized daycare services. There could be a gang rape a day and a murder a week in one of these institutions and you know what? Come the following Monday morning, the vast majority of parents would still send their kids.
The government schools are just another form of welfare. The only difference is that the middle class and upper class, if they so choose, can participate in this welfare program as well.
“But,,,hey!,,,When it comes to First Amendment Rights forget it. Forget about any constitution and human right to free assembly. Government can and does threaten good kids with armed police action if they fail to show up at “Thug School”.”
Well, to give my beloved Virginia some small measure of credit, this is I think the only state with a religious exemption to it’s compulsory schooling statute. We actually have a provision for religion based conscientious objection, and it’s how many home educators in Virginia operate. Of course I would prefer that the General Assembly simply got rid of the compulsory schooling statute, but that’s probably not going to happen for awhile.
We home schooled in VA just by signing some papers saying we would, and stating our qualifications (all you need is undergrad degree) to teach. We didn’t have to give any reason.
Once a year the kids had to take a standardized test (Stanford as I recall) to show they were ‘on target’ for their grade(s). They could have successfully passed through the 8th grade test when they were in 2nd. It was NOT a difficult test.
“We home schooled in VA just by signing some papers saying we would, and stating our qualifications (all you need is undergrad degree) to teach. We didn’t have to give any reason.”
In VA, all you need now is a HS Diploma. (The law changed in the last year or so.) The religious exemption route allows eligible families to file their notice of intent just once (vice filing every year), and they’re exempt from the annual testing requirements. HSLDA has a good summary of the current law.
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What happens to government schooled kids who are below their grade level on standardized exams? Are they forced to homeschool? ( sarc/off)
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More money is spent on K-12 education ( federal, state, and local) than is spent on the military. That’s a very big middle class entitlement! But,,,hey!,,,I like the way you phrase it, “Middle Class Welfare” and “free babysitting”.
You are right. There could be a murder a week in the halls and the schools would be full the next day.
The following is a true story:
The son of a friend of ours was attacked in the halls of his government school by a group of thugs. They broke his femur. He was in the Gifted and Talented program and I suppose these reprobates were jealous. The kids responsible got a slap on the wrist by the judge and were transfered to another school. Of course, the kids and parents at their new school were not warned ( probably not the teachers either) that thugs had arrived.
I asked my friend, “Why would you send your son back to that school?” Her answer was that her son was in a gifted and talented program and they were hoping for scholarships. Would risk your son’s life for a scholarship? ( I wouldn’t!)
This incident occurred in a “good school” in a “good district”. The thugs had been bused in.
Have you noticed that in nearly every article about some horror story about a government school, that the school is in what would be considered a “good” area?
hahha, by the good Grace of God, we are well beyond homeschooling now !!!!! But God bless Mike Farris for getting that law through at all.
The restrictions in our day were not onerous at all. The only problem was that the kids couldn’t participate in anything extra-curricular at the local schools. We were more than willing to live with that. The exclusion of home schooled kids will end when a local school finds it’s got a home-schooled Tebow living in their district.
“What happens to government schooled kids who are below their grade level on standardized exams? Are they forced to homeschool?”
sarcasm aside ... in OUR school district a kid in public school who tests below grade level gets extra help. If a kid is capable of achieving better, the schools here do put the resources into bringing him/her up to grade. If the student is not capable of achieving at grade level, they are usually in a special ed program. I can’t speak for anywhere else in the state or country.
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No excuse for allowing behavior like that.
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