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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.

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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: lowbridge

Bad things keep happening in Brevard. It is the water?


81 posted on 12/10/2022 5:19:27 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Salvavida

I’ve never figured out how charter school teachers and administrators would be better than those in public schools. They both come from the same background and schooling. Please enlighten me.


82 posted on 12/10/2022 5:30:35 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Leep

Good point.


83 posted on 12/10/2022 5:32:05 AM PST by rbg81
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To: Leep

Kind of like Leftists who migrate to Red States because they can’t take it anymore (but yet don’t learn their lesson).


84 posted on 12/10/2022 5:33:07 AM PST by rbg81
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To: lowbridge

Here’s the deal….
…even many years ago I had a meeting with the school superintendent……I was in opposition to a curriculum and he very graciously gave his time to listen

He also took the time to show me the ‘rules book’……..what he was expected to follow/ protocol…..
……very thick book with rules and regulations
Then he showed me the ‘rules book’ of just a few years previous……
…thin….very thin

It is so obvious most parents weren’t paying attention when the gradual degradation of our schools began and continued through the years….
…..by the time they got my attention my kids were in jr high and high

We have ceded years and years to the unknown of our children’s education

My sister in law taught in one of those destructive schools……even as a solid liberal she couldn’t take dealing with the ideas she espoused
…and the principal did not have her back
She took an early retirement

Another relative taught at a well run, well maintained, disciplined Christian school and had the best of students and complete support of the principal


85 posted on 12/10/2022 5:44:37 AM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Guenevere

What a coincidence!!!!

Go to Fox News Online!!
You will hear Brevard County’s Sheriff WAYNE IVEY articulate what’s happening in schools and how Brevard County will deal with it.

Ivey is an awesome Sheriff!!


86 posted on 12/10/2022 5:50:38 AM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Mustard

there are bad sections in otherwise good counties ...


87 posted on 12/10/2022 6:01:10 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Jim Noble

bad sections in good counties ...


88 posted on 12/10/2022 6:05:55 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: lowbridge

And why aren’t these kids expelled? And charged with the crime of assault?


89 posted on 12/10/2022 7:15:19 AM PST by Twotone
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To: lowbridge

High schools in places like Cocoa (lol) are just way-stations to prison. So send the 17- and 18-year-olds to prison, 3 strikes, welcome to FSP.


90 posted on 12/10/2022 7:24:30 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: gitmo

Kids are running wild because discipline is racist, because more black students would be subject to discipline.

It would also be racist to point out that black students tend to be more violent.

The underlying problem is the parents of the violent students. Single black moms WANT their sons to grow up to be aggressive, because they will rely on their sons for protection after they get too old and fat to attract a thug boyfriend.


91 posted on 12/10/2022 7:31:24 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: Salvavida

No one said anything about “doing anything” to kids. Drill instructors by their nature are intimidating


Don’t you think the intimidating is because of the doing?

I don’t think you understand the situation.


92 posted on 12/10/2022 7:31:46 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Cen-Tejas
Give me a squad of young marines who have been in combat in Afghanistan and I would have order in the school within hours.

And you and your squad would be under arrest the next day, and facing a Soros DA arguing in front of a jury of ghetto moms.

You understand the problem, but you are not grasping the full extent of what would be required to solve it.

93 posted on 12/10/2022 7:35:21 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: lowbridge

Those Right-wing extremists. Tsk.


94 posted on 12/10/2022 7:43:40 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: Elsie

Sadly, Elsie, the Left is 1000% incapable of accepting responsibility or acknowledging that it’s their deranged policies that have allowed all this sh*t to happen.

Even if they don’t necessarily agree with something, deep down, their desire for power and control forces them to ally themselves with the most insane people around.

Sad.


95 posted on 12/10/2022 7:46:38 AM PST by qaz123
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To: lowbridge

This all comes down to those poor unloved black students expressing themselves and the NAACP and school board has their back.


96 posted on 12/10/2022 7:54:19 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: SauronOfMordor

“And you and your squad would be under arrest the next day, and facing a Soros DA arguing in front of a jury of ghetto moms.

You understand the problem, but you are not grasping the full extent of what would be required to solve it. “

This is a tough nut to crack and you nailed it. The process to even begin correcting this mess is full of pitfalls that I would not want to go through.

I say, back away and let them do as they please. Eventually the problem will right itself.


97 posted on 12/10/2022 7:57:26 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: devane617

Sin is a reproach to any nation.


98 posted on 12/10/2022 8:00:47 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Baldwin77
How many students are illegal aliens?

Why would you wonder this?

It isn't illegal aliens who have turned inner city schools into dystopian hellholes. It's a demographic of people who have lived in America for generations.

Hell, if the black crime rate dropped to that of Latinos, we'd be living in paradise.

99 posted on 12/10/2022 8:01:14 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: qaz123

All of this goes back to what Sen Moynihan predicted decades ago and it’s only being worse.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I’ve forgotten that important observation by the great Sen. Moynihan. Can you quote it?


100 posted on 12/10/2022 8:14:49 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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