Posted on 09/16/2015 4:22:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
As the new school year begins, you might like to be updated on some school happenings that will no doubt be repeated this academic year. After this update, I have some questions one might ask the black leadership.
The ongoing and escalating assault on primary- and secondary-school teachers is not a pretty sight. Holly Houston is a post-traumatic stress specialist. She counsels teachers in Chicago public schools and reported, "Of the teachers that I have counseled over the years who have been assaulted, 100 percent of them have satisfied diagnostic criteria for PTSD." It's not just big-city schoolteachers traumatized. Dr. Darlyne Nemeth, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said last year, "I have treated many teachers with PTSD, and I am currently following a few of them."
A Philadelphia seventh-grade girl with a history of incidents against her teacher sprayed perfume in the teacher's face after telling her that she smelled "like old white pussy." After telling her classmates "I'm about to kick this bitch's white ass," she shoved the teacher, knocking her to the floor. In 2014, a Philadelphia 68-year-old substitute teacher was knocked out cold by a student (http://tinyurl.com/orldslb). Earlier that year, two other teachers in the same school were assaulted. By the way, Philadelphia schools employ close to 400 school police officers.
In a school district near St. Louis, teachers have had pepper spray and dog repellant sprayed in their faces. A Baltimore teacher had his jaw broken. In Baltimore, each school day in 2010, an average of four teachers and staff were assaulted. A 325-pound high-school student in Houston knocked out his 66-year-old female teacher (http://tinyurl.com/oqxmrfg). Nationally, an average of 1,175 teachers and staff were physically attacked each day of the 2011-12 school year.
School violence is going to get worse. Last year, the Obama administration sent all the school districts in the country a letter warning them to avoid racial bias when suspending or expelling students. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan claimed that racial discrimination in the administration of discipline is "a real problem today. It's not just an issue from 30 or 40 or 50 years ago." Last year, in Washington, D.C., an official of a teachers union tried to explain to a national gathering of black elected officials why white teachers are so problematic for black students, saying they just do not understand black culture. Excuses and calls for leniency will embolden school thugs.
What about student conduct in the 1930s, '40s and '50s? Don't take my word. Ask black congressional representatives, 46 percent of whom were born in the '20s, '30s or '40s. Start off with Reps. John Conyers (86), Charles Rangel (85), Eddie Bernice Johnson (79), Alcee Hastings (79) and Maxine Waters (77). Ask them whether their parents or kin would have tolerated their assaulting and cursing teachers or any other adult. Ask them what would have happened to them had they assaulted or cursed a teacher or adult. Ask whether their parents would have accepted the grossly disrespectful behavior seen among many black youngsters in public places -- for example, using foul language and racial epithets. I'd bet the rent money that they won't tell you that their parents would have called for a "timeout." Instead, they will tell you that they would have felt pain in their hind parts. Then ask these leaders why today's blacks should accept behavior that previous generations would not.
The sorry and tragic state of black education and its attendant problems will not be turned around until there's a change in what's acceptable behavior and what's unacceptable behavior. That change must come from within the black community. By the way, it is an idiotic argument to suggest that white teachers are problematic for black students because they don't know the culture. I'm nearly 80 years old, and during my North Philadelphia school years, in schools that were predominantly black, at best there may have been three black teachers.
A typical ghetto school student’s reply to “Please put away your cell phone” or “Please be quiet” is “F___ you b___h. I gonna kill you with a knife/kill you with a gun/find you after school and jump yo a@@”, etc. I have been struck in the head by heavy thrown objects, spit on, had stuff thrown in my face, had a student attempt to write something on my backpack with White-Out, etc. This article is totally believable by me. I am sure that I also have PTSD and so do many of my colleagues. That’s the way it is in public schools, now. Oh, and not-so-ghetto schools have students doing the same thing, just not in such great numbers.
Having my husband in a situation where he needed the union’s assistance, I learned how little the union actually does. The union rep was there to make sure the school didn’t break the rules when trying to ruin my husband’s career and reputation.
FWIW they never accused him of breaking the law or violating school policy. He allowed student led discussion on religion during class a few times each year. They said he “created a culture of religious discrimination “. Union couldn’t do anything until they actually fired him. The union isn’t as powerful as we all are led to believe.
If a teacher were to defend themselves physically then they would be charged with assault and the union does nothing to help in criminal cases. The teacher would be left on his own.
My mom is a Head Start teacher. They have three year olds respond to gentle correction by saying,”Get the F-— out of my face b——”.
Insane world.
I’m so sorry. I won’t let that happen again.
My problem is that I am an electrical/electronic engineer, patent writer and owner of a successful business of over 45 years and probably have not paid attention to proper writing guidelines.
Have you ever wrote a single sentence comprising more than a thousand words? I have.
When writing the claims in a U.S. patent, the claims and description of said claims are required to be written as a single sentence.
I recommend that you remind the Patent Office of their errors too.
However, I did really, really was bad on proper grammar on that post.
/Sarc
The "SOCIETY" is the product of generations of teachers. The deliberate dumbing down of America has been a steady and intentional process that for the most part was cheered by the teachers' unions and implemented for grant money. It was planned from the very beginnings of public education. So was "sexual education," that bred the "SOCIETY" you bitch about now (a nebulous attribution invented to avoid accountability). You may not be individually guilty, but collectively, there is no group in America more deserving of misapprobation for the multi-generational damage done than public school teachers' unions. The whole system needs to be devoloved. Here's how.
BTW, those links are enough to keep you busy for about a month.
Now you know why they don’t want teachers with guns in schools. Some would probably say “ah hell no” and just shoot some of these little thuglins.
You've got a point there.....any attempt to fix the problem would meet with firm resistance by the commies.....
Savages. Obama sons and daughters.
Try that today and you will wind up homeless and incarcerated.
To protect myself, I must carry $1,000,000 in insurance for the privilege of herding these miscreants - and not all of them are "of color".
All teachers are...
All schools are...
Every teacher belongs to a union...
An education thread on FR for some posters is like a teenage boy parked on a dirt road with the hottest girl in school, all critical thinking goes out the window.
Catch 22
1. Most teachers are left wing enablers who make excuses for the poor behavior of all students, minorities in particular, yet they are surprised and indignant when those students turn on them. (This reminds me of the bear lover who was eaten by a bear.)
2. Blacks whine and complain that black students need black teachers, yet when they succeed in having entire school systems run by blacks with all or nearly all black teachers, those students’ scores get worse. This is like having children insist that they should run the household and when parents abdicate responsibility and give the kids free rein the house deteriorates into chaos.
3. The 0vomit administration warns against racial bias in suspensions or expulsions. This is a code word for quotas. 0vomit wants blacks and whites suspended in equal numbers or equal proportions. Equal numbers/proportions would be bias. It is NOT bias if you suspend students for the same offenses. True bias would be suspending a student of one race and letting a student of a different race skate for the same infraction.
4. Healthy self-esteem comes from achievement. It does not come from chanting that you are important or being constantly told that you are important (#blacklivesmatter). People who get by by conning and scamming others and by playing the system will never have healthy self-esteem. The real message they internalize is that they are too incompetent to make it on their own merit, so they need a handicapping system to give them an unfair leg up. (Harrison Bergeron)
5. Achievement comes from hard work. Most hard work involves failing and then picking yourself up and trying again. Having a grade promotion, diploma handed to you after little or no effort and no discernible improvement in knowledge or ability is NOT achievement. It is delusion. Just because the imposter in the White House got there on no perceptible achievement or competence doesn’t mean that everyone can. (Post Turtle). People like 0vomit who are elevated to undeserved positions which they have no ability or qualification or intelligence to handle are put there by clever and accomplished (and evil) puppeteers.
“Your system took God out of school. So reap what you sow. You wanted this.”
Not just the schools.
Good article.
Same old....sigh
“OH! I fully understand the point of the article.”
It sounds to me like you’re blaming the teachers, and that’s not the point that Walter Williams is making.
Some would call it God's judgment. Others might call it "karma". But it has been downhill in public schools (and America too) ever since. It is not a coincidence.
Obama's BATF quickly took note of these teacher's names, in order to deny them guns.
I have a thought on this. The topic is currently at the midst of a local tempest in a teapot, mostly stirred by the local media.
If, indeed, Blacks are disciplined at rates much, much higher than Whites.... Then it's being done by a school staff and faculty who are overwhelmingly liberal in their views.
So, with this info in mind, logically, I can only draw one of two conclusions:
1. Blacks commit infractions at a much higher rate than whites.
2. A faculty and staff, an overwhelming majority of whom are liberals, are also racists for their biased approach to disciplining innocent black kids -or- failing to discipline guilty white kids.
I suppose it could be both.
So of course there's a 100% PTSD rate - if she found otherwise, she'd be out of a job. She may be dumb, but not that dumb.
Don’t get me wrong for I “praise” Walter Williams. Of all commentators he is by far the most intelligent and accurate in his statements. To my knowledge I have never disagreed with anything he ever said or wrote.
However, something drastically changed in our social world over the past 40 years and the name of that change: Discipline.
Women burned their bras and shouted the song “We Are Women, Hear Me Roar” and within 10 years made the Rockwell America simply go “poof!” Women were held down too long doing what women had done since the dawning of time.....raising their children and preparing them for the “real world.” To hold their head up level with their female friends and neighbors who abandoned the children in the pursuit of a socially acceptable job, they too abandoned their children to daycare centers.
That is where children were introduced to their first “teachers.” Daycare centers were not set up to teach discipline..they were set up to make money. When the government started to pay for daycare the business exploded in growth and popularity. Now, moms of all stripes could simply dump their children off, go to work, have fun, or simply leave the upbringing of their children up to minimum wage employees who worked there. Discipline simply disappeared from the American scene. Don’t believe it? Go to a restaurant and listen to undisciplined children acting like wild animals and when they hear the most hated word of all...NO...they start screaming and crying until...guess what...the parents give in.
Well now, the little beasts are in school and their 1st grade teachers have already learned what would happen to them if they even attempted to discipline the child in any manner other than one of the most painful, horrible and blood curdling punishments ever invented...TIME OUT! Boy, that really worked didn’t it?
“Aren’t we being a little too harsh on Johnny (or Mary)” was the cry from the women of America...for any punishment, minor or major. Finally we have come to the point that no one ( other than white males that are expected to be responsible for everything) is responsible for anything they do.
This infectious disease was carried from daycare into the public school system and became the beginnings of the cancer that has brought our civilization down to the lowest point in history. Many, many young teachers picked up on the “no one at fault) drive and pushed it too. Administrators got the heat too from both liberal teachers and parents and caved in to their every whim. Teachers who were responsible and still believed in discipline (I mean real discipline...not time outs) were set upon by he liberal ones and had one of two choices; 1, go with them and 2, quit. If they did not go along to get along their careers were finished and advancement up the line would never happen.
No matter how well you have raised and taught your children, you still turn their minds off, drop them off to “school” and subject them not only 6 hours of politically slanted propaganda, but to ghetto animals who run uncontrolled throughout the school day. THIS IS FOR 5 DAYS A WEEK. You get the for only 2 days a week.
Peer pressure to conform to the “norm” at school is by way of both the teachers and fellow students. When they get home they still receive it by the games they play and what is on TV. With the invention of the cell phone the days of actual physical contact with society is almost at an end and the need to act and be accepted by today’s society (if you want to call it a society) is beyond comprehension.
We have gone from dumping little Johnny off at daycare to dropping them off at the public school system so they can raise them. From there they go to higher education (an oxymoron) to learn important things like women’s studies, the sciences like what makes snail crap stick to the slimy trail, and to other “studies” like political science, how monkeys masturbate, and other very important studies that in most cases the taxpayer will end up with the bill one way or the other.
It all comes down to exposure to teachers who can’t, won’t (or are not allowed to) apply discipline for it either will get them in trouble with management or the law or simply because they believe in “free range children” and don’t want to interfere with their thought processes.
Granted, there are many, many fine teachers out there but they cower under their desks, afraid of management, their peers, parents and the contorted laws we have without even attempting to even try to fight this ever advancing disease that is destroying our society. It’s best to simply “go along to get along” and that seems to be the battle cry of today’s teachers.
With each passing year it gets worse and seemingly will never get better.
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