Posted on 11/23/2019 4:24:21 AM PST by Kaslin
There are many news stories squandered by CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, and even FOX News. Many of these stories are easy to find. However, the narrative-driven media are too busy trying to topple the Trump administration and undo the 2016 election. So while all the invented drama of the impeachment hearings are clogging up the 24-hour news cycles, a comprehensive study on school shootings published by the U.S. Secret Service never sees the light of day.
Why? Because the study discovered some inconvenient truths for gun control advocates, specifically how to reduce and prevent school shootings. What is not surprising is that the study found that most students who committed these deadly shootings had a history of disciplinary trouble--their behavior disturbed others but was never reported. It also determined school shootings “are not sudden, impulsive acts where a student gets disgruntled,” and “the majority of these incidents are preventable.” In other words, the system was blinking red, and little was done about it. The report’s conclusion says that schools may need to think differently about school discipline and intervention.
Why does this matter? Remember in 2011, when Barack Obama and his Department of Education were on a socially engineered crusade to artificially manufacture public school safety through race politics? Recall they launched their Supportive School Discipline Initiative that was championed as a national model for discipline reform. Yet, this misguided intervention into local school policy is why the Department of Education should be shut down. Through forced compliance to receive federal funding, this junk science kept many miscreants in the school instead of finding an alternative placement somewhere else and an effective tracking system. States also followed by revising their laws to reduce suspensions and expulsions.
This high-minded, one-size-fits-all liberal policy, like most other liberal policies, didn’t take into account the potential unintended consequences of their nitwitted idea. Instead, it got students unnecessarily hurt, killed, and left countless communities traumatized in the aftermath of mass school slaughters because they were worried about the civil rights of disruptive students. They had, however, no concern for students who had a civil right to go to school and learn without being mowed down in a classroom.
Obama and his Department of Education ignored the real-life experiences of teachers and school administrators who knew that keeping a student who should be expelled or at least suspended from school for extremely outrageous behavior was not a novel concept, but a dangerous one. Take for example a teacher in a North Carolina school who said that the daily fights, concealed weapons, and assaults on faculty were ignored simply to reduce the number of incidents reported. Or the father of a student killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Florida who called these polices cancerous and that these lenient, P.C. policies led to the non-reporting of potential school killers. Maybe like the Stoneman Douglas shooter Nikolas Cruz.
Cruz had a history that was completely ignored because of the Obama-era policy that allowed him to fly off the radar screen and to go unmonitored. He was referred to what was called the PROMISE Program in middle school for his repeated threatening behavior, but there was no record of his receiving services. This program mirrored Obama’s forced lenient compliance requirements on school discipline in order to receive federal funding.
President Trump commissioned a comprehensive study after the Parkland School shooting on the effect of the Obama-era lax school discipline policy. It found that, among other things, a “recurring narrative that teachers in the classroom and students in hallways were afraid that students who had a history of antisocial or violent behavior were left unchecked.”
Thankfully Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced in December of 2018 that she rescinded the dangerous Obama-era policy on lenient school discipline requirements. That was a good start. But the problem is that reversing policy takes time to take root. The liberal behavior of schools will have administrators continuing on this path. It is how human behavior works, not to mention the liberal nature of local public school officials. Unfortunately, it will take more mass school shootings before the public demands tactics and policies that actually work.
Liberals are big on amassing government databases of private citizens information like gun ownership. They support gun registration lists with public access to such records. They support so-called red flag laws that allow for the confiscation of a person's firearms without due process, but when it comes to the protection of kids in schools, they are worried about their civil rights? They are afraid that school records on discipline could follow a student and may end them up in the criminal justice system when that is exactly where someone like Cruz belonged.
Here is how we keep kids safe in school. We need at least a state database of disruptive students, a red flag system so that when these troublemakers move on to other schools, law enforcement and the new school can find out who they are getting. Schools need to return to a zero policy on student disruptive behavior and a return to using arrest, suspension, and expulsion for behavior control, at least in extreme cases. When schools hear about a “best practice,” they should run in the other direction. These are nothing more than liberal socially engineered experiments developed in university ivory towers with no empirical proof or peer review that they actually work. And lastly, keep the U.S. Department of Education out of the business of ordering school policy. The safety of our children and faculty is worth it.
Stop federal funding of schools.
Applies to the serial killer as well as to the garden-variety thug.
Nobody is ever held accountable.
When the write all these laws, they make sure to exempt themselves and the bureaucrates from any legal action.
Or, just do what the private schools that politicians send their kids to do: hire armed security.
>> Or the father of a student killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Florida who called these polices cancerous and that these lenient, P.C. policies led to the non-reporting of potential school killers. Maybe like the Stoneman Douglas shooter Nikolas Cruz.
His book:
Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Meadow-Died-Policies-Parkland/dp/1642932191
Heavily footnoted, this book shows the brain-dead educrat policies that directly led to 17 dead kids at Parkland. The shooter was a known wolf, and nothing was done because it would make the numbers look bad, and we can’t have that can we?
Reasonable measures, Sheriff, but if you solve the problem, what will Liberals run for office on?
The study seems silly. They should have looked at prescription drug use, like anti-depressants.
One other aspect of the asinine policies put in place under Obutthole was the “you can’t expel a black student without expelling a white one”. This policy resulted in a caucasian student in my area being put up for explusion (ended up in “alternative school”) for flipping off a teacher. The black student who was put up for exclusion with him had brought a loaded gun and knife to school- and he threatened people with them. He also ended up in the same “alternative school” as the first student.
Liberals like school shootings because they fuel sentiment against gun owners who represent political opposition. Power is their ultimate end game. Like all social causes they promote it’s just a means to an end.
If the teachers can't drug their warm bodies, some kid might start questioning what they are being told. If they can't make them intelligent, they sure as hell can drug some down until they are equally stupid.
Part of the problem with high intelligence is that the parents of these kids usually look at them as cowbird eggs. Dropped out of the sky for the ill-equipped to deal with.
Like the TV show, Young Sheldon, big laughs at the freak... The only reason Sheldon isn't drugged comatose is that it would make for poor TV.
The teachers haven't a clue, either, since they should be working in a textile mill, or some other nice, low intellect, repetitive task. So, Ritalin for any ADHD figiting.
Hey, it's in the DSM Book... As I've said, if you can't show numbers, it's opinion.
Is there anyone here that doesn’t think this was the plan all along? Leaving sociopaths in schools increases the likelihood of mass shootings. Period. Fast and Furious didn’t get rid of the guns, but ‘it’s for the children’ might help the Left in this regard. I can tell you that within minutes of the Saugus shooting being reported on, I had two Leftist friends on Facebook express their sorrow and then IMMEDIATELY pivot to THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING TO STOP THIS. Upon which A FEW of their likeminded friends started the gun control meme.
Oddly enough, not one of my Leftist friends on Facebook has made any comments on the impeachment hearings.
So the tendency is to act dumb, to not try anymore, to not act smart as they will have the snot beat out of them.
The most EVIL administration in the history of the republic...Obama, Obama, Biden, Clinton, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Jarret, Lynch, Lerner, Rice, Holder, et al.
It takes some criminals to raze a republic.
Developing...
THIS LITTLE HALF BREED BLACK BASTARD HAS DONE MORE DAMAGE TO THE COUNTRY THAN ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS COMBINED BECAUSE HE WAS RAISED IN AN UNAMERICAN FOREIGN CULTURE.
At least twice a day, every day, that thought strikes us in the face. Mister “no scandal” indeed.
Only because he thinks NOTHING he does is WRONG.
Talk about arrogance.
“...hire armed security.”
I do not have a ready solution at hand for the problem. There are crazy kids attending public schools—crazy kids who may (or may not) do crazy things like shooting the place up. The schools are required by law to take them. If they really, really crazy—diagnosed by a medical professional, then they are handicapped and the school has to accommodate them and educate them in the least restrictive manner possible.
Teachers may or may not know that such kids have been prescribed drugs to control/modify their behavior—it would be up to the parents to share the info with them. HIPPA and all of that.
I had a student who was more than a bit “off”, who had access to firearms—his parents chose to give him guns and who had attitude as well. His mother was well aware of his rights as a ‘handicapped’ student. He was suspended often but always would come back. If someone was going to shoot up our school, we were pretty sure it would be him.
Then to the point of the article. It is now considered racist to notice that as a group black kids tend to misbehave more than others. Anyone who has taught in a school is therefore a racist. This is not to say that all black kids misbehave—far from it. But the percentage is much higher. If discipline is administered fairly, more black kids are going to punished than other groups. The last President believed that this was only due to racism, when in fact, it is due to what is really happening in the classroom. The whole “school to prison pipeline” narrative has turned reality on its head. Most bad adults were bad kids. Noticing that some kids are bad is not what turns them into bad adults.
Okay. Welp, I tried, kids but, sorry, one failure and that's it. Yeah, yeah, I know, every day there are more crimes prevented by the presence of a weapon than there are actually committed but, hey, we got one instance of a failure, so, that's it, you're on your own. Good luck with all that throwing books and chairs at the shooter.
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