Posted on 12/12/2009 9:06:04 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
A suburban Atlanta high school teacher has been accused of pursuing a "hit" on a 16-year-old student last month, and the case is under investigation by local authorities.
Randolph Forde -- who teaches at Mundy's Mill High School in Clayton County -- has been charged with making terroristic threats and was released on bond.
He is currently on administrative leave from his job with pay and faces an employment hearing in early December, Charles White, a school district spokesman, said Tuesday.
A Clayton County Police report says the incident occurred October 9. The suspect took a student off a school bus and told him he "would pay him to kill the victim," the report says. When the student asked who the target would be, the suspect said he'd write the name on a note, it says.
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Is this the best reason to homeschool yet?
Dean Rooney up to his old tricks?
The student probably refused his sexual advancements defying the new Kevin Jennings law that its fine and proper for children to have sex in the bushes with strangers. Thus he had to be put to death in a gay jihad.
Sorry, this just does-not-pass-the-smell-test....
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A Clayton County Police report says the incident occurred October 9. The suspect took a student off a school bus and told him he “would pay him to kill the victim,” the report says. When the student asked who the target would be, the suspect said he’d write the name on a note, it says.
“The teacher held a piece of paper up with the victim’s name on it,” said Officer Otis Willis III of the Clayton police.
Attorney Terance Madden, who represents alleged target and his family, issued a statement saying that problems between the boy and the teacher go back to “on or about September 29,” when “Forde allegedly called my client outside the class and asked him if he is gay.”
Then “on or about September 30,” the two had an argument in class and Forde threatened “to hit him in his ‘effin’ mouth,” Madden’s statement said.
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Of course the school district did NOTHING until forced to look into it.
You would never believe the Clayton County school system, the only public school system in America to lose its accreditation in modern times. Apparently this incident began with the teacher asking the boy if he was gay. The question came up because the kid used to dance in the back of the classroom with another boy instead of, say, taking notes. Apparently it was downhill from there.
Hits! Teachers who want to **kill** students?
Is this the wonderful “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing? ( Just wondering.)
Also...( Sorry to be so redundant, but is there any other way to put it?)
There are schools sooooooooooo toxic that it would be better for the child NEVER to attend! I **seriously ** mean it! I **seriously** mean it would be better for the child never to learn to read than to attend.
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I notice, and you did too, that this article is almost a month old. Why did you post it?
Agreed, it reads like some gay kid is making up a get even story!!
Well, If I were a teacher, and two boys habitually danced at the back of the classroom instead of sitting at their desks, I might get a little annoyed too. Did they play rap music while they did it?
I find this "hit" story very difficult to believe. It sounds like a lousy school, with really difficult kids and probably most of the better teachers driven out because they couldn't take any more. I know a few idealistic young teachers who tried teaching in inner city schools, and most of them couldn't take more than a year of it. Full time trying to keep discipline, and not much chance to actually teach them anything.
I’ll bet Teacher’s been bonkin’ the kid and the kid wanted to break up with Teacher. Just a simple Jenkins Lover’s Quarrel. Nothing very serious in Obama’s America.
I didn’t see anyone else post it. It’s a noteworthy story.
I am no fan of public education here in Texas but I do my utmost to make a difference in the lives of those I teach. The system is corrupt, but I cannot make a living on what parochial schools pay. They pay half of what public schools pay and still, it is only an adequate living for a single person. The shame of school administrators is that they have lost all connections to teaching in the real world. Their agenda is testing your children and not educating them. You can thank "NCLB" for that little deal. How can you pass someone who refuses to be a success?
Frankly, I have had it with being the only person in the lives of my students who gives a d--n about the child's character. Try teaching a child to have character when the the parents are addicts or gang members who will curse you out because you care enough to discipline! In addition to that, I have students who come to school never having held a book in their hands, much less been read to. This is a travesty and it will be the undoing of our nation if O. does not bring us to destruction first.
Friends, it much worse that you think. The teacher is a baby sitter who risks assault at the hands of her students and is motivated (intimidated, actually) by an administration that is in the business of staying in business and not educating your child.
Yes, I have had young friends who set out to teach in urban public schools out of a sense of dedication, and most of them had to move on, to somewhere safer.
In contrast, I also had a former graduate student who came back part time to get his PhD with us, who was the principal of a school in the Bronx. He actually started out life as the Warlord of a Bronx Hispanic street gang, then married a good Catholic wife, and went straight. (In fact I’m not sure he ever was exactly crooked—where he came from, they needed a gang in the South Bronx simply to defend their turf.) As a result, he had enough “authority” to run that school pretty well the way it needed to be run, and the students benefited from it. But teaching is not always a cushy sort of job.
My oldest daughter is teaching school, now that her kids are old enough, and she also finds it challenging—financially necessary but also gratifying when she can get some difficult kids from troubled backgrounds reading stories, enjoying them, and writing about them.
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