Posted on 09/10/2016 1:50:52 PM PDT by Scarpetta
Three years ago, Highline sat at the leading edge of a national effort to rethink school discipline and move away from outright punishment. Since then, many teachers have resigned, pointing toward a vast gulf between embracing ideals and making them real.
When Jasmine Kettler kissed her mother goodbye at Sea-Tac Airport and boarded a plane to Bangkok last month, she carried nothing but a backpack, laptop and memories so traumatic that the former Highline High School teacher had purchased no return ticket.
Her plans are fluid. She may volunteer in a refugee camp on the Burmese border. She could spend a few months in a Thai monastery. The only firm agenda: healing from what she describes as three years of constant frustration and fear as a Highline teacher.
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Is it the fricking Amish again?
“The theory is great — it’s just not implemented very thoughtfully.”
You think the Thin Blue Line is secretive? Ask yourself why teachers don’t come forward about what is really going on urban schools.
Because to speak out is career destroying. They just get told as they leave, don’t speak about what happened here and to you or you will never teach again.
This is also a lesson to those vested in their children’s future. If you value your child’s safety and education, thoroughly know your schools demographic. These disruptions that happen send dedicated teachers away and deprive your child of their learning opportunity.
In Seattle it’s surely a mix of Latinos and blacks.
Another Liberal failure.
Clearly the only solution is to devote far more taxpayer money to the same strategies that have already failed.
Most of the problems we face in this country can be traced to situations where people who have nothing in common are forced to interact with each other against their wishes, and public education is a perfect example of it.
If I were a teacher in an urban school - and I hate to admit it - I would probably let these youts play on their phones all period, while I sharpened pencils or filed my finger nails, a la Mrs. Wiggins.
Thank you, I agree. It has been destructive as hell.
I wonder how many teachers have be assaulted and raped and then told that if they report anything, action will be taken against them by the school system?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *wipes eyes* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
What happens when administrators and supervisors become victims?
I suppose, but after some time wouldn’t feel jaded, that you spent years in college getting a college degree and now you cannot draw an personal satisfaction in teaching youth, because they are monsters?
I don’t believe those youth would leave you unmolested very long, its not in their nature to leave anything un-tormented, including small animals or anything else they perceive as weak.
They should designate one classroom (or more as needed) for liberal school administrators to oversee all of the problem cases.
Let the liberal do-gooder stooges assemble the problem cases under their benevolent tutelage, and they can prove to themselves and the world how to “get to the root” of the problems and reform all the tough cases. But DON’T force the bulk of teachers and students to keep the scumbags in their midst, depriving everyone of a decent educational environment.
“In Seattle it’s surely a mix of Latinos and blacks.”
Inconceivable.
That works out well:
"We knew suspension wasn’t really a solution. It would keep the campus safe, but not necessarily the community.”
Said a counselor of two of his counselees that were charged with 2nd-degree murder. Both "frequent visitors", one actually on suspension for 45 days, the other truant, when killing a man.
OTOH, Ms.Enfield still insists on screwing over the majority of the students for the sake - probably federal money involved - of the 10-15% that are "disruptors".
Perhaps the ACLU or Nader's Raiders' could bring child endangerment suits against the school board and school administrators for knowingly allowing and promoting ill- and mis- "education"?
Very disheartening. We need Moms back in homes, Dads and Moms committed to each other and to their family. Discipline begins at home, not at school. How many of these problem “students” are day-care kids?
I was a HS substitute 25 years ago, my very first day in a portable building far from other classes 2 boys started a fist fight in the first 2 minutes of class. I just reacted, I shouldered one of them and pushed the other one down in a desk and yelled at them.
After things calmed down I realized what I had done so I just told the class to open their books. Other kids in the class started asking if I was going to send them to the principal and I said no, I think I handled it.
Nothing ever came of it but I got a reputation and a lot of respect.
Geeee....Who would have thought it would come to this?
Some folks should be fired for this debacle!
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