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Teacher Sought 'Hit' on Student, Cops Say
AOL News ^ | November 17, 2009

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: arth; atlanta

1 posted on 12/12/2009 9:06:04 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: metmom; Tired of Taxes; wintertime

Is this the best reason to homeschool yet?


2 posted on 12/12/2009 9:07:10 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Dean Rooney up to his old tricks?


3 posted on 12/12/2009 9:08:00 AM PST by chargers fan
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To: Clintonfatigued

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.


4 posted on 12/12/2009 9:16:14 AM PST by GeronL (Join the Palin Beer Summit Putsch!!)
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To: GeronL

Sorry, this just does-not-pass-the-smell-test....


5 posted on 12/12/2009 9:22:18 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Clintonfatigued

Excerpt:

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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.


6 posted on 12/12/2009 9:25:26 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Clintonfatigued

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.


7 posted on 12/12/2009 9:27:31 AM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Is this the best reason to homeschool yet?
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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.

8 posted on 12/12/2009 9:31:36 AM PST by wintertime (Proud Ghoster! An honest man would be **HONORED** to prove he was a natural born citizen!)
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To: Clintonfatigued
The perp:

9 posted on 12/12/2009 9:32:45 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Bon mots
Bringin’ da hood to school.
10 posted on 12/12/2009 9:38:09 AM PST by wintertime (Proud Ghoster! An honest man would be **HONORED** to prove he was a natural born citizen!)
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To: 2Jedismom; AAABEST; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; AliVeritas; AlmaKing; AngieGal; Antoninus; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

11 posted on 12/12/2009 9:41:15 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I notice, and you did too, that this article is almost a month old. Why did you post it?


12 posted on 12/12/2009 9:56:57 AM PST by upchuck (New sign on my pickup: Are you a "Hope and Change" regretter?)
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To: Gaffer
Sorry, this just does-not-pass-the-smell-test....

Agreed, it reads like some gay kid is making up a get even story!!

13 posted on 12/12/2009 10:17:20 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: madprof98
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.

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.

14 posted on 12/12/2009 11:25:27 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: org.whodat

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.


15 posted on 12/12/2009 11:51:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: upchuck

I didn’t see anyone else post it. It’s a noteworthy story.


16 posted on 12/12/2009 12:47:11 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: Cicero
I agree with you, Cicero. This story DOESN'T pass the smell test with me either. As for those who would choose to homeschool on the basis of this report, I'd say the reasoning is a little shaky. I am all for homeschooling but if the primary reason is fear of a teacher putting a hit out on the child, well just let's say, there are crazies all around us and many are in the clergy and church where we feel our young people are safe. Parents should homeschool for the right reasons: for the best educational reasons, for good curriculum, truthful history lessons, meaningful literature and for the choice to educate according to family beliefs.

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.

17 posted on 12/12/2009 6:00:49 PM PST by scottiemom ("As a Texas public school teacher, I would highly recommend private school")
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To: scottiemom

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.


18 posted on 12/12/2009 6:21:11 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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