Its the asian kids, again.
Posted on 12/06/2021 7:04:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
After repeated brawls between students at Hiram Johnson High School in Sacramento, teacher Connie Steinman made a decision. She wants to transfer to teach independent study.
The American sign language teacher said she no longer feels safe at the campus where she has taught for 21 years.
Her decision comes after the latest violent incident on campus where a number of students began fighting on Nov. 18, prompting a lockdown that some teachers say was not properly communicated and placed students and staff at risk.
Like other Hiram Johnson teachers, Steinman has seen constant fights on campus. With staff shortages across the district, region and country, teachers often are placed in the position of having to break them up.
That’s what Cassandra Drysdale tried doing on Nov. 9, when she witnessed three teens fighting on campus.
“I got involved because I am the volleyball coach and one of my (volleyball) girls was trying to break up the fight, and I wanted to make sure she didn’t get hurt,” Drysdale said. “But I got hit in the back of the head instead.”
Drysdale ended up going to the hospital for a concussion, returning the following week only to be on campus for even more brawls on Nov. 18. Some teachers counted six in total.
“I don’t always feel safe on campus,” she said. “Pre-COVID, we had so much momentum to shifting our narrative on campus. We were moving towards a positive direction , but coming back post-COVID with kids not socializing with one another as much is a lot.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Hispanic 47%
Asian 26%
Black 13%
White 7%
Two or more races 4%
Pacific Islander 2%
Filipino 1%
Native American <1%
Students learning English - 30%
Add to that a new generation of what’s tantamount to a generation of unsocialized kids thanks to mask mandates and shutdowns.
You can't suspend or expel because that impacts Federal Match dollars, pegged to attendance.
Its the asian kids, again.
About 35% of adolescents between ages 13-22 are simply not suitable for traditional classroom type education. Its pointless trying to get them meaningless high school diplomas and promote the fiction that they learned anything.
So glad I was able to retire recently (a bit earlier than I’d wanted, but still do-able).
The last fight I broke up was several years ago - followed by a very angry call from the principal who told me NEVER to break up fights but to “let them kill each other” - she was worried about a teacher getting hurt - a teacher that is becoming increasingly difficult to replace.
By California law, we teachers do not have to break up fights, only state loudly “STOP fighting” and call for help.
Often the road to Harvard is littered with black eyes and fractured arms.
The principal of a nearby high school told me that anytime there is fight on campus, he knows he cannot suspend or expel students without a great deal of difficulty including mountains of paperwork justifying the decision along with endless meetings with district officials and hostile parents.
So instead, he put the students on home studies immediately.
Said he’d had no pushback from parents after he’d told them the alternatives.
They can take up coding if they can’t handle high pay, great benefits and an abbreviated work year with summers off.
I still say that all classes should be taught by Marine drill instructors.
Violence against public school teachers is severely under-reported. And that’s because school districts are all about presenting a positive image. Anything negative is suppressed.
A good friend of mine taught ninth grade science in an urban high school. One of her students beat my friend so bad that an ambulance had to take her to the hospital. The school district put out a news release saying my friend slipped in the hallway and fell.
The unions won't allow it.
Need more social workers
Violence against other students is not reported either. The schools hide everything, and it's taxpayer funded. It's one big mess.
But imagine if it could happen. A drill instructor in the mold of R. Lee Ermey screaming in the face of some kid who thinks he’s tough shit.
My sister reports the same COVID-caused behavioral problems at her inner city Baltimore school. Fights are up something like 1,000%.
The jr and sr high school kids have begun rutting like animals in the stairwells, too.
Too bad. So sad.
They have great benefits and early retirement. Deal with it.
A Freeper told us years ago that teachers make a lot more money in Chicago than in many other places.... But you did have to put up with violence. Much worse now. Give me the quiet small town schools without violence... so far...
Tyrelle y.F.
Exactly, and that is determined at the 100th classroom day. In our school, beginning on day 101, most of the little rectal vents were suspended or expelled.
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