Posted on 11/26/2008 8:52:29 PM PST by ebiskit
Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee told the D.C. Council yesterday that the District needs to completely rethink its approach to preventing school violence, with a better trained security force but also by teaching students to manage conflicts before they spiral out of control.
Rhee spoke to the council a day after fights among rival groups at Anacostia High School left five students injured, including three with stab wounds. Flooding school corridors with more police or private security guards is not the answer, she said. Students feel less safe in schools filled with guards, she said, and dollars are better invested in teaching peer mediation and conflict management through anti-violence groups such as Peaceoholics.
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Don't we all just love government?
tehDeetz
Students feel less safe in schools filled with guards, she said
yeah, the bad students.
But Obama’s kids could transfer their father’s vision of HOPE and CHANGE to DC schools had they decided to attend DC public school. I think Obama is proving what a hypocrite he is by showing he has no faith in public schools.
But hey, that’s how Obama is demonstrating that it’s ok for him to have CHOICE in where he sends his kids to school but that it’s not ok for others to do so.
michelle has lots of other great ideas but she’s still a liberal at heart
Educators fail to understand the concept that one cannot educate someone who refuses to be educated and have parents who don’t care if their children are educated or not. The only way I know how to save these kids is to separate them from their screwed up parents and have them live and be educated in an academy till they are 18 years old. 87 percent of the child’s time is spent at home, and the environment in the home will determine if the kid will aspire to learn or not.
Schools aren’t violent.
Some of their students are.
Schools don’t fail.
Some of their students do.
Guns don’t kill.
People do.
Obama picked Hillary and Robert Gates. He doesn’t care about all the suckers for change anymore.
The way to change the schools is to have guards to punish the bad kids and offer incentives to reward the good kids.
And there is this for the really desperate cases:
http://www.zigsite.com/LowPerfomersPro.htm
The Low Performers site is very interesting, but it’s one-to-one education for preschoolers. Is there some application of the priniciples to older children in groups?
"What happens when strong habits are punished? When strong habits are effectively punished, their rate and strength will increase for a short period of time and they drop off dramatically. The figure below shows the typical trend...
Teachers frequently misunderstand the nature of effective punishment. They observe that when they “punish” a response, the rate increases. They take this as an indication that they are doing something wrong. They discontinue the punishment, not knowing that what they were doing was appropriate, the proof of which was the escalation of the learner’s responses. In the end, they strengthen the inappropriate behavior each time they quit, because they stopped before it was eliminated. This demonstrated to the learner that indeed the response is powerful and useful. The next time somebody tries to extinguish the inappropriate behavior, they will have to work harder than the teacher would have this time. (In the example above, if the teacher discontinued the punishment at 20 minutes, the learner would have received a demonstration that screeching works: “In the end, the screeching will make the teacher go away.”)
“...fights among rival groups...”
Did I miss the memo where they’re not allowed to say “gangs” any more ?
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
More joys and benefits and strengths of the rich, vibrant, multicultural mosaic of diverrrrrrrrrrsity.
Liberal idealism in education is a complete failure. A complete overhaul of education is in order.
It is not a case of “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”. The bathwater is filthy and the baby has died.
The only way I know how to save these kids is to separate them from their screwed up parents and have them live and be educated in an academy till they are 18 years old.
Wash your mouth out with soap.The only way to save these kids is to let their parents know that their kids' futures depend on them, and that blaming the government is no solution at all.
And that doesn't mean regimentation of the kids or their parents - it means uniting responsiblity and authority for education of each chile in the parents of that child.
Anything less than that is tyranny - and is no education for a free citizen.
HomeSchool NOW!!!
Lest your prefer Ayers as your progeny’s Head-Master.
Our Constitutional Republic demands it for it’s very survival.
No hyperbole.
Doll&Jindal12
tehDeetz
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