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Cincinnati public schools spend almost twice as much per student than our suburban schools and they are rated academic emergency. Our suburban schools spend a lot less and are rated excellent. What ticks me off is that our suburban schools could achieve much more if they weren't shackled with these lowered standards, that the city schools can't even meet.

My wife used to teach in inner-city Cincinnati pub schools. Typical hole - teachers had to buy their own supplies and guard from theft by other teachers, she'd kick students out for fighting and weapons only to have the administration send them right back, parents who never had any interest in their kids would complain that she was teaching too hard when their darlings failed, no one would stay in the building past the final bell because of past attacks on teachers, etc.

Yes, that sounds very familiar. I have a good friend who is an assistant for the behavorial problem kids in Cincy public schools. She is a petite but tough lady, but the things she takes for granted as "thats just the way it is", I wouldn't tolerate for one second. She says all the time how they talk to her and denigrate her, and as long as they are not being physically violent she figures they are being good that day.

I'm sorry, but I wasn't put on this earth to be disrespected by thugs and pieces of human trash so bad they give prisons a bad name.

They would never want me to be in charge of anything in that district. I would have the ACLU screaming at the 120 decibel level. I would even have PETA screaming that I treat them worse than animals.

But if they want to act like animals why shouldn't they be in a cage?