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50 shell-shocked teachers, staff flee chaotic Florida school district
nypost.com ^ | December 9, 2022 | Selim Algar

Posted on 12/09/2022 7:01:40 PM PST by lowbridge

Violent and disrespectful classroom behavior has led to a staggering 50 teachers and bus drivers to quit a Florida school district in the last two years.

Brevard County School District, the state’s 10th-largest, held a heated meeting Thursday that offered an unvarnished and often disturbing glimpse into the state of its classrooms.

“On an everyday basis I am deflecting being attacked, scratched, headbutted, pushed, hit,” teacher Alicia Kelderhouse said as her voice choked with emotion. “I’ve had my hair pulled, and pulled down to the ground. I’ve had my throat gone for on multiple occasions. It’s on an everyday basis right now.”

Kelderhouse said staffers often commiserate in the morning to muster the courage to face the day — and that frightened kids are grappling with the same fears.

“I have students who are afraid every day in the classroom,” she said. “It’s just not fair to them. That’s what hurts my heart the most.”

The head of the district’s beleaguered teachers union, Anthony Collucci, recounted recent incidents reported by staffers to school administrators.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: aliciakelderhouse; arth; brevardcounty; culture; culturerot; education; feral; fl; florida; obamasons
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To: Organic Panic

It’s our biggest weakness actually.


41 posted on 12/09/2022 8:26:37 PM PST by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: Bullish
A pewter Warhammer figurine would solve the problems?

Yes.

Yes it would.

42 posted on 12/09/2022 8:28:50 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Bullish

(Besides, it’s Fallout 3)


43 posted on 12/09/2022 8:29:09 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lazamataz

Oh, my bad... Carry on sir.


44 posted on 12/09/2022 8:29:54 PM PST by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: Bullish

It’s fallout


45 posted on 12/09/2022 8:42:14 PM PST by This_Dude
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To: qaz123

No one said anything about “doing anything” to kids. Drill instructors by their nature are intimidating and know how to motivate. They take teenagers all over this land and turn them into professionals. Florida already has a troop-to-teacher program. Adding a bonus is money well spent.


46 posted on 12/09/2022 8:52:24 PM PST by Salvavida (“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”)
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To: lowbridge

I used to have a townhouse there. It’s a BIG retired military area.


47 posted on 12/09/2022 8:53:38 PM PST by ryderann
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To: Baldwin77; Pelham; Travis McGee; CatHerd

My kids were all Williamson county public school raised

Hispanics are a non issue discipline wise

It’s black kids anywhere

Unraised at home

My oldest started at Percy priest in posh forest hills and they bused in 10-15% MECO black kids from over by charlotte ave

They disrupted the entire elementary school

That’s all it takes

They came to school in raggedy uniform which was required then

So I from my own pocket outfitted the entire MECO brigade

I was fatter $$ then

We also offered to bring home adults to school events etc

Almost no takers

That’s your problem mostly is no home support

In Jamaica a nation I know in and out replete with usual black culture racial (chicken egg)issues but their schools do Function

Discipline and home support

Poor as hell
Serious Gunmen criminal and political on most corners and ghettos

But the schools teach

At least they did in the 80s


48 posted on 12/09/2022 9:03:32 PM PST by wardaddy (Biden Fetterman 2024 ..it’s a no-brainer!)
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To: lowbridge

Brevard County has a population of 606,000. Probably has a significant number of schools and the article doesn’t tell us if the problems are county wide, or concentrated in particular neighborhoods and schools.

A lot of details not provided.


49 posted on 12/09/2022 9:03:33 PM PST by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: Salvavida

Drill Sergeants at Ft Benning are not allowed to wear the customary Campaign Hat for the first 3 weeks of basic training

They are not allowed to yell at recruits

They are not allowed to use the “knife hand”.

Recruits are given ‘stress cards’.

A ridiculous number of recruits can’t even make it out of the Reception Battalion.


50 posted on 12/09/2022 9:15:43 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Lazamataz
LOL... yup!


51 posted on 12/09/2022 10:00:38 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: lowbridge

The teenybopper lunatics are running the public school asylums. You let the bastards walk out of class to “protest” for their RAT massahs whenever they want, this is what you get.


52 posted on 12/09/2022 10:04:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: lowbridge
This is not happening throughout Brevard County. It has happening specifically in Cocoa Florida which is….wait for it… ~33% black. There is no consequence for assaulting teachers or, as the article discussed, masturbating in class, because that would be racist.
53 posted on 12/09/2022 10:18:11 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: Will88

Exactly!
Brevard has some of the finest schools……..
……this is a technology driven county populated by many engineers……..& Kennedy Space Center
The children reflect the high intelligence and desire to learn accordingly
They have many opportunities

However, Brevard, like any other county in any other state, has some questionable schools……with expected outcomes

Brevard, imo was chosen for this diatribe write up because it’s in FLORIDA
……and the MSM hates Florida lately


54 posted on 12/09/2022 11:17:18 PM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Will88

The lede:

“Violent and disrespectful classroom behavior has led to a staggering 50 teachers and bus drivers to quit a Florida school district in the last two years.”

Brevard Public Schools employs 9300 staff members. If 50 of them quit over two years and attribute their departure to violent and disrespectful classroom behavior, that’s less than 0.3% per year.

Is that really national news?


55 posted on 12/09/2022 11:19:56 PM PST by canoe
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To: lowbridge

love to know what kind of kids would do such things....then again, I probably already know....


56 posted on 12/10/2022 1:08:11 AM PST by cherry
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To: G Larry

saint trayvon was a Florida student.....just saying...


57 posted on 12/10/2022 1:09:23 AM PST by cherry
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To: blueunicorn6

I don’t see that happening.


58 posted on 12/10/2022 3:19:16 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Guenevere

The Bell Curve never lies.


59 posted on 12/10/2022 3:43:55 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: lowbridge

The “progressives” must be so proud of themselves. Violent with no consequences now, violent with no consequences when they graduate.


60 posted on 12/10/2022 3:59:00 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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