Posted on 09/17/2021 7:34:14 PM PDT by lightman
The national organization of middle and high school leaders is urging the Biden administration to do more to protect its members from “threats and violence” by parents who disagree with COVID-19 restrictions they put in place.
In a call for support, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) on Thursday said its members have been faced with “hostile community members” because of their policies on “highly charged issues” involving masks, quarantines, and vaccines.
The organization cited the confrontation between Teresa M. Hill, the principal of Walden Grove High School in Arizona, and a group of people who wanted to discuss with her a student who was prohibited from returning to class after possibly being exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19.
“One month ago, seven people refused to leave our campus demanding a quarantined student attend class. After a lockdown of the front office for three hours, we were forced to arrest three of them,” Hill said in the release, alleging that she became the target of “multiple threatening and intimidating” messages, emails, and social media comments that called her a “Nazi” and “fascist.”
“School leaders are facing threats because they are simply trying to follow the health and scientific safety guidance that the CDC, state, and local health departments are issuing,” the press release reads. “NASSP is calling on federal officials to protect school leaders from rampant hostility and violence that disrupts our schools and threatens the safety of our educators and students.”
Specifically, the NASSP CEO Ronn Nozoe argued that the federal government needs to take “more concrete actions,” starting from giving school leaders the authority to remove or ban “threatening individuals” from their schools.
“At the very least, we need the U.S. Department of Education to issue specific guidance on the authority school leaders have to protect themselves and our ability to remove or ban hostile parents and individuals from school grounds who threaten our safety,” said Nozoe.
The call comes as the Biden administration is working to support schools that defy their states’ orders to implement mask requirements and other COVID-19 restrictions.
“I’m directing the secretary of education to take additional steps to protect our children,” President Joe Biden said in August. “This includes using all of his oversight authorities and legal action if appropriate against governors who are trying to block and intimidate local schools officials and educators.”
On Sept. 9, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona announced that his department will be offering financial help to school districts with a new grant program called Project SAFE (Supporting America’s Families and Educators). This money is expected to be used to pay school officials whose salaries are being withheld by states for violating orders against enforcing mandates.
More likely,
remove or ban hostile parents and individuals from our school grounds who threaten our ideology and idiocracy.
Can we also ban public schools too?
They already concluded in some districts that the “parents have no say in the decisions on guiding students in their gender change choices.”
No need to inform even if hormones are being injected by the school staff! None of the PARENTS’ business.
That’s where we get off this Marxist train.
They need to first start banning hostile teachers that indoctrinate students, and demean and intimidate those who don’t agree with them.
Anyone who sends their child into a school that bans them from the campus is a raving lunatic.
PULL YOUR CHILD.
If I were banned, my kids would NOT be attending that institution.
But pay your property taxes!!!!
Sorry this is part of the deal. You abuse our kids, you will have to deal with the recourse. You should be complaining up the chain of command to knock off the insane mandates and this will stop.
aka
Annual RENT to the Government.
If I were in their position I would try the same thing, then do virtual meetings, then only written minutes of meetings with moderated comments.
Watch the seattle city council get called out
https://twitter.com/BrandiKruse/status/1108436096247947264
today no real people are allowed to ask questions, cause Covid
Home school, put them out of a job. ta-da! No more hostile parents! :)
Changing the rules when they realize they are losing the game, huh?
The time has come for exactly that, imo.
They really think you’re their slaves and your children belong to them.
Say good bye to your squish job stupid people
Low-Tuition Cost Private School Models
Many of our fellow Americans live in areas where leftists have poisoned the school systems.
TRADITIONAL TEACHER MODEL
My primary model would have about twenty kids in a class and a tuition of around $3,500/year/student.
Each teacher would set his/her tuition rate and maximum class size and handle student admission. Homeowner associations might host hook-up events for teachers, parents and prospective students. Tuition might be paid monthly for affordability and two months in advance (so it won’t be problem for the teacher if the parents have a major car repair bill one month).
Men and women who have good English and math skills but lack high-value technical skills might choose to become such teachers.
Teachers might provide their SAT scores and college transcript information to prospective parental customers. Independent certification authorities might thoroughly test the teachers and issue report cards.
Classrooms might be set up in commercial space no longer usable for retail stores because of excessive minimum wages or shrinkage.
A classroom might have four rows of five students each and might be around 1,000 square feet in size.
The curriculum might be based on a traditional state model, a current state model, a proprietary model or the teacher’s own handiwork.
PARENTAL ASSISTANCE MODEL
The Parental Assistance Model would have a parent of each child assist the teacher for a period of two weeks each school year.
The teacher would provide necessary training for the parents during several weekends prior to the school year.
Parents who don’t have the time or skill to fulfill their responsibilities would have to pay and arrange for substitutes. At 35 hours a week for two weeks at $30/hour with employer taxation, hiring a substitute might cost $1050. High-income parents would often seek low-income household parents to substitute, thereby helping the low-income household parents pay tuition.
PARENT-TEACHER MODEL
The Parent-Teacher Model would be the lowest cost form. It would have a parent of each child be a teacher for a period of two weeks each school year.
Parents looking to participate would obtain the necessary training and certification from a specialized training organization over about 100 classroom hours prior to the school year. This organization or another would obtain and maintain the physical classroom space.
Parents who don’t have the time or skill to fulfill their responsibilities would have to pay or arrange for substitutes.
PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION FUNDING by SCHOOL PROPERTY TAX REBATE
To assist parents in paying tuition and to be fair to the parents, the amount of school taxes they (and perhaps the parents’ parents) pay on their residence(s) might be rebated.
Eventually, rebates might be paid for past year tuition as well, so if parents pay $7,500/year tuition for two kids and $3,000/year in school taxes, the $4,500/year difference could be rebated to the parents in the years after their kids graduate.
It is no longer possible for Republicans to reform systems at the federal level, so Republicans must enact state-level reforms.
Teacher, leave them kids alone.
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