Posted on 09/16/2015 4:22:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
As the new school year begins, you might like to be updated on some school happenings that will no doubt be repeated this academic year. After this update, I have some questions one might ask the black leadership.
The ongoing and escalating assault on primary- and secondary-school teachers is not a pretty sight. Holly Houston is a post-traumatic stress specialist. She counsels teachers in Chicago public schools and reported, "Of the teachers that I have counseled over the years who have been assaulted, 100 percent of them have satisfied diagnostic criteria for PTSD." It's not just big-city schoolteachers traumatized. Dr. Darlyne Nemeth, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said last year, "I have treated many teachers with PTSD, and I am currently following a few of them."
A Philadelphia seventh-grade girl with a history of incidents against her teacher sprayed perfume in the teacher's face after telling her that she smelled "like old white pussy." After telling her classmates "I'm about to kick this bitch's white ass," she shoved the teacher, knocking her to the floor. In 2014, a Philadelphia 68-year-old substitute teacher was knocked out cold by a student (http://tinyurl.com/orldslb). Earlier that year, two other teachers in the same school were assaulted. By the way, Philadelphia schools employ close to 400 school police officers.
In a school district near St. Louis, teachers have had pepper spray and dog repellant sprayed in their faces. A Baltimore teacher had his jaw broken. In Baltimore, each school day in 2010, an average of four teachers and staff were assaulted. A 325-pound high-school student in Houston knocked out his 66-year-old female teacher (http://tinyurl.com/oqxmrfg). Nationally, an average of 1,175 teachers and staff were physically attacked each day of the 2011-12 school year.
School violence is going to get worse. Last year, the Obama administration sent all the school districts in the country a letter warning them to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan claimed that racial discrimination in the administration of discipline is "a real problem today. It's not just an issue from 30 or 40 or 50 years ago." Last year, in Washington, D.C., an official of a teachers union tried to explain to a national gathering of black elected officials why white teachers are so problematic for black students, saying they just do not understand black culture. Excuses and calls for leniency will embolden school thugs.
What about student conduct in the 1930s, '40s and '50s? Don't take my word. Ask black congressional representatives, 46 percent of whom were born in the '20s, '30s or '40s. Start off with Reps. John Conyers (86), Charles Rangel (85), Eddie Bernice Johnson (79), Alcee Hastings (79) and Maxine Waters (77). Ask them whether their parents or kin would have tolerated their assaulting and cursing teachers or any other adult. Ask them what would have happened to them had they assaulted or cursed a teacher or adult. Ask whether their parents would have accepted the grossly disrespectful behavior seen among many black youngsters in public places -- for example, using foul language and racial epithets. I'd bet the rent money that they won't tell you that their parents would have called for a "timeout." Instead, they will tell you that they would have felt pain in their hind parts. Then ask these leaders why today's blacks should accept behavior that previous generations would not.
The sorry and tragic state of black education and its attendant problems will not be turned around until there's a change in what's acceptable behavior and what's unacceptable behavior. That change must come from within the black community. By the way, it is an idiotic argument to suggest that white teachers are problematic for black students because they don't know the culture. I'm nearly 80 years old, and during my North Philadelphia school years, in schools that were predominantly black, at best there may have been three black teachers.
“”Of the teachers that I have counseled over the years who have been assaulted, 100 percent of them have satisfied diagnostic criteria for PTSD”
OH BOY! PTSD is it? What’s next? 100% disability payments for life for these crybabies?
Isn’t it amazing that back in the days of “the blackboard jungle” movie the teacher actually took it upon himself to do something about the situation? Today’s teachers are terrified sissies.
Believe it or not (you newer generation types) back in the day before the 1960’s parents and teachers actually took physical action to “correct” wayward punks and it normally ended up as a truly painful lesson.
Today’s solution is to get the punk into physiological treatments so that he/she/it can “work out” the frustrations the teacher caused them to have.
Now look at the teacher of yesterday and today: Teacher prior to 1960 takes physical action. Teacher of today runs to the physico office and claims PTSD.
What a sissyfied world we live in today.
And, often teachers who use force to defend themselves from actual attack get arrested. There’s nothing wrong with what’s going on with the fundamental transformation going on in the USA, is there?
If we teachers physically restrained or struck students in the manner you are suggesting, we would have lawsuits brought against us and possible termination of employment. It is not the TEACHERS who are the problem here; it is our SOCIETY. We have, as a society, become a wussified culture. Can you whip your child's behind these days without fear of CPS knocking on your door?
If we were ALLOWED to respond in kind as teachers used to, many of us WOULD DO EXACTLY THAT.
You are most likely entirely correct, but you also have this thing called a Union that propagates the opposite. Now you are in a Catch 22 situation and only you teachers have the ability to have any effect on reigning it in. There is one candidate’s supporter who is highlighting Walker’s wishes to emasculate and even eliminate public sector unions.
Although I agree 100% on his newly polished campaign “promise” I have my doubts he would actually be able to do anything about it if he were to win the Presidency race. As an administrator for a powerful candidate who is able to take a populist wave and wash out the establishment politicians along the way, he may have the support and numbers to make it happen.
Remember, all 435 Congressional seats are also on the same primary ballots, in addition to 34 Senate seats, and it is in our hands to cull those anti-establishment people to primary the democrats and especially the GOPe. David Brat provided us the model.
Like RATS in a marxist maze with no cheese, teachers and students alike have it…PSSD - Public School Stress Syndrome. Drop your toddlers off at the maze, pay good money to go to the maze, matriculate at the maze, become a moronic marxist mouthpiece from the maze, abrogate your future paying mountains of money to the retirement income of maze indoctrinators.
“All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAGkuPaatdc
“Isn’t it amazing that back in the days of “the blackboard jungle” movie the teacher actually took it upon himself to do something about the situation? Today’s teachers are terrified sissies.”
“...took it upon themselves...”???
Today, for that, they would be handcuffed and walked down the hall to the laughter and jeering of the students. It would be professional and financial destruction.
I’d say it’s 50/50. Rules have changed and that makes it a problem for teachers to do what they need to do in many cases but then again there’s a lot of teachers who just shouldn’t be teaching period.
“possible termination” now a days is unlikely with teachers unions. If you’ve achieved tenure an indefinite paid leave period pending transfer or arbitration.
My only advice to any teacher is is own your classroom from the first day. Any weakness invites trouble.
Inner city schools aren’t schools anyway they’re more like day boarding kennels for animals.
I believe that you are one of the few teachers who are not “new age” types. I feel terribly sorry for you.
However, teachers as a whole have become so politically correct along with all levels of scholastic management that they have only themselves to blame for what they face today.
Most teachers are liberals...big time! They march in “lockstep” with government propaganda and progressive beliefs, thusly blindly transmitting these beliefs and social behaviours to their students.
Come on! Apparently you have been teaching long enough to have seen these changes and you are clearly aware of what will happen if you go against the will of the group.
It is by no accident that schools now let children learn the good things about “gender identity” and “gender neutral” bathrooms and biased “black studies,” “racial atrocities” by whites from the beginning of time, and the oppression of women by males.
Believe me, I am VERY INFORMED to what is happening in our schools (from K to college) and they are the zoo from which Political Correctness exits from to taint a once great society.
Here at the school in which I teach, several teachers have been fired immediately for grabbing students and pushing them against lockers or lifting the off the floor while yelling at them. That being the case, I think your 50/50 estimate is a bit off. The union didn’t protect these guys...
Another sad point is that the white kids are emulating the behavior of these thugs, and if the parents try to correctly discipline them (as my parents disciplined me) CPS shows up and the parents are in trouble.
If I acted up in school, I got the paddle at school from the teacher, and the belt from Dad when I got home.
I think you’re missing the point of the article
Then do it again . And again. I suggest reform schools in Wyoming Colorado or Montana where the thugs get to practice working in forests or ranches and never return to da hoods until they are 18 and earn a ticket
And momma’ s EBT pay gets docked and the amount applied tithe upkeep of lil towanda out there in Wyoming
That news would also get around the hood
Today’s teachers are union and don’t approach the profession as a calling. For most it is a sinecure, rather like welfare payments they have to preside in classrooms for. And, if they resist the student thugs they will probably lose their jobs or go to jail. That was not the case way back when. Meanwhile the black city culture has become America’s Gaza Strip. For Israel the Gaza is an isolated corner of the country from which the beasts leak out from time to time and do damage. In America our Gaza is distributed throughout the country and the bleeding is internal.
You are absolutely correct. However, they can blame themselves and all who came before them who progressively let this happen through the past years.
In the hippie movement in the latter part of the 60’s a general attitude was formed against any social rules and from that point forward, the rot began.
Another fact is that the majority of hippies were of collage age and did attend our universities and guess where many went after graduation? That’s right! To our public and private school systems as TEACHERS and ADMINISTRATORS.
From that planted “seed” liberalism grew uncontrolled and our schools and “so called” places of higher education have expanded as year passes by.
Your system took God out of school. So reap what you sow. You wanted this.
“The sorry and tragic state of black education and its attendant problems will not be turned around until there’s a change in what’s acceptable behavior and what’s unacceptable behavior. That change must come from within the black community. By the way, it is an idiotic argument to suggest that white teachers are problematic for black students because they don’t know the culture. “
OH! I fully understand the point of the article.
Do you understand the other postings on this article by our fellow freepers?
Its not “school violence”.
Is “black violence”.
In 4th grade, we regulaly got “the ruler” from Mrs. Maxwell. She even broke one over a frined’s rear she hit him so hard. We hated it at the time but it kept us in line. Last year at a local high school a young thug went on a beat down of a female student while a teacher watched; he was forbidden by school rules from physically intervening to stop the beating. So yes, the animals have taken over. At many schools I don’t see how a kid who is actually interested in learning has a chance.
And the real problem starts at home. If Jarmetrious, D’vious, Raetheon and Tikwando don’t have fathers and mom is a crack whore, the school won’t be able to do anything with them. To me the first step in solving this problem seems obvious. Stop subsidizing it; end welfare.
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