A few years ago some Dim proposed a bill that was supposed to combat “violence” in school. The bill proposed that when a student was involved in any kind of conflict which resulted in violence the principal would be given broad powers. He could require the parents to provide a list of any and all weapons the student had access to or were stored in the home. This specifically included baseball bats and butter knives in addition to other items.
If the parents refused to provide the list they would be committing a felony. Once the list was provided the principal could dictate how those ‘weapons’ would be stored. Once again it was a felony for the parents to fail to comply.
All of this authority given to principals under this bill. thank goodness it never passed but it shows how sick these people really are.
Do folks realize how far this strays from anything actually having to do with education? My son attended a Catholic school. The disciplinary powers of the teachers was broad and reaching, extending to demerits, Saturday work in the grounds and fields, extra homework, and preemptory visits to the headmaster. Searches beyond cleaning up messy lockers were never conducted, yet these powers were sufficient to keep kids enough in line that the teachers could focus on their primary job of English and Math and Latin, which the students were forced to take 4 years of.
The problem is not that the schools lack sufficient disciplinary powers, but they fail to engage the students by teaching thereby relieving themselves of the necessity of the students to act out their shear and utter boredom.
No wonder public schools want to eliminate homeschooling so much. It’s more than education and leftist indoctrination, creating good little obedient socialists. They’re trying to use the schools as policing entities; just another foot in the door of controlling the unwashed masses.
Only a dim would consider a butter knife a *weapon*. Fer cryin’ out loud, hands and feet probably kill more people than butter knives. What should we do? Outlaw them as well? Amputate them at birth to you have a really defenseless populace. I’m sure some dem or principal Stalinist type would love to implement something like that if they could just work out the details.
Nobody is going to train my kids to spy on me. My kids are not going to be subservient little automons who do exactly what the state tells them. Nobody is going to tell me how to run my house and what I can have and where.
I take back my assessment of principal. I’d guess ACLU lawyer. They’re the only ones who make a lowlife bottom feeder look like a great leap forward in evolution.