Posted on 09/10/2016 1:50:52 PM PDT by Scarpetta
Three years ago, Highline sat at the leading edge of a national effort to rethink school discipline and move away from outright punishment. Since then, many teachers have resigned, pointing toward a vast gulf between embracing ideals and making them real.
When Jasmine Kettler kissed her mother goodbye at Sea-Tac Airport and boarded a plane to Bangkok last month, she carried nothing but a backpack, laptop and memories so traumatic that the former Highline High School teacher had purchased no return ticket.
Her plans are fluid. She may volunteer in a refugee camp on the Burmese border. She could spend a few months in a Thai monastery. The only firm agenda: healing from what she describes as three years of constant frustration and fear as a Highline teacher.
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Just park your car and look out your window when the kids come out of school. If you don’t like how they act, then don’t consider the school for your children. At least that’s what my relatives do. Since many of them live in Washington, DC, they send their kids to private schools.
Good choice for them and they sound like real good parents, not willing to sacrifice their children’s future for over-wrought notions of cultural diversity, especially ones that are self-destructive.
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