Posted on 02/14/2024 9:23:44 AM PST by grundle
A Pittsburgh Public Schools student is facing criminal charges after police say he assaulted at least four teachers or staff members at his school.
Qvawn Rembert-Leonard, 18, was charged Tuesday with four felony counts of aggravated assault after allegedly going on a violent rampage against the staff inside his school, Oliver Citywide Academy Satellite at Greenway in Crafton Heights.
According to the criminal complaint, Rembert-Leonard was talking on the phone in school about cocaine and fentanyl on Jan. 30.
When a female staff member asked him to stop, the complaint states, “He turned in rage, grabbed and threw [her] across the room.”
Rembert-Leonard is also accused of pushing a male staff member, wrestling another male employee to the ground and choking him, and swinging at a third.
Then, according to the police report, a female employee told investigators, “I went to the cabinet to retrieve his phone, he came toward me and punched me in the mouth and took his phone.”
Rembert-Leonard has not yet been taken into police custody.
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Good thing Qvwan didn’t go to my high school back in the 60’s. The principle was a guy that stood 6-4 and went 240. Big time shotputter in college. Brooked no bullish!t. Saw him on a few occasions pick up a student that had shown some disrespect by the front of his shirt with one hand and pin them up against a locker. Usually with their feet dangling a foot off the ground.
On second thought, perhaps Qvawn would have benefited from some of that.
> Usually there is pressure to ‘keep it inside the school’. <
You’ve got that right. I’m a retired urban public high school teacher. We were told to called the school police only. Calling the city police was a firing offense.
Why? It’s because of what you said. Central administration can bury a school police report. They can’t bury a city police report.
Quick story: A friend of mine - a vice principal - was attacked (and cut) by an out of control student armed with a knife. My friend immediately called the city police. That was the right move. Our school police are unarmed. Not even tasers.
Well, my friend got a call from central administration the next day. He was told he wouldn’t be fired for dialing 911. But he was blacklisted, and would never receive another promotion.
Darn good thing for many thugs, muggers, and killers...That I’m not King.
We’re going to need miles of rope and acres of oak trees.
Qvawn didndo nuffin!
But if you did, you wouldn't be wrong. Just sayin.
3 guesses and the first Qvahn doesn’t count.
I am against police departments controlled by school districts fir exactly that reason, they’re ordered to cover stuff up.
“..Qvawn Rembert-Leonard..” didn’t even have to read the article to know it’s just another person keeping the stereotype alive.
Dinner table talk from Ward and June....
That guy is going to feel the glass of milk start to curdle in his stomach just thinking about it.
There is a conflict of interest when it comes to schools. Whose interests should come first; the employees or the students? In one sense, of course, it should be the students; that’s who the schools are created for.
On the other hand the employees are the district’s employees and in many cases have been a part of the school much longer than the students and their safety in the work place is the school’s responsibility.
What we don’t know and likely will never know, is how many times has 18 year-old Qvawn, attacked his fellow students? What about their interest in a safe place to learn?
Rope....extension cords and anything...the like.
Bullets are cheaper.
> What we don’t know and likely will never know, is how many times has 18 year-old Qvawn, attacked his fellow students? <
Right. Whether it’s violence in the schools or a trash curriculum, it’s always the decent kids who suffer the most.
In the old days, schools used to suspend - or even expel - violent students. No longer. Suspension statistics are now closely tracked. Principals are rewarded when their suspension rate go down. And they are punished when their rate goes up.
So instead of a suspension, a violent kid is either ignored or he goes to a brief (and worthless) mediation session.
Another quick story: I had a very bright kid in one of my city high school science classes. He was small, and was picked on. We teachers tried to intervene. But without the principal’s support, we could do little.
One day the kid came to me after school. He asked me for advice. I was kind, but blunt: You can do great things. But not here. Tell your parents you need to transfer to a good school somewhere else.
The kid was gone in less than a week. A happy ending, this time.
Probably because the school took the parking pass for his horse-drawn carriage away...
The Amish are very sensitive to issues like that...
In the old days, schools used to suspend - or even expel - violent students. No longer.
And while I have no idea of Qvawn’s race (heh, heh), it is true the the current D.O.E. really frowns on suspensions/expulsions of individuals of certain groups.
Is this the wonderful socialization homeschoolers are missing? ( Just wondering.)
IEP?
IEP?
But IEPs also include kids with mental or behavioral problems. Federal law requires that IEP students must be educated in the least restrictive environments as possible. If a kid is diagnosed with behavior issues it becomes difficult to impossible to discipline him for misbehavior.
Federal law also requires that extra money spent on IEP students, like extra staff, etc. comes off of the top of the schools budget, although the feds do provide a lot of money for special ed. But this is one reason why school districts go out of their way to not claim that an IEP is ‘out of control’, because they have to pay to put a kid in a secure facility.
And if all that weren’t enough, if the IEP requires it, the school has to provide these services 12 month a year until the kid celebrates his 22nd birthday.
Aren’t you glad you asked?
“Aren’t you glad you asked?”
I needed to know, so thank you.
I asked him "Why the hell are you putting that guy back in school?"
He responded, "You think I want him back on my streets!".
I resigned shortly thereafter.
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