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Florida shooting: Teachers 'were warned' about Nikolas Cruz
BBC ^ | 2-15-18

Posted on 02/15/2018 5:34:38 AM PST by SJackson

Teachers were warned in advance about the teenager who allegedly carried out a mass shooting at his former school in Florida, US media are reporting.

Nikolas Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder following the deadliest shooting at a US school since 2012.

A teacher said Mr Cruz was not allowed on campus with a backpack.

Seventeen people were killed in the attack and many more injured. Several people are in a critical condition. Mr Cruz, 19, apparently left the scene of the shooting by blending in with fleeing students, but was arrested several miles away and is now in police custody. What was the warning?

Maths teacher Jim Gard told the Miami Herald that school authorities had emailed teachers about Mr Cruz's behaviour.

"We were told last year that he wasn't allowed on campus with a backpack on him," Mr Gard told the Miami Herald. "There were problems with him last year threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus."

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To: Keyhopper

Precisely.

Amish adopt a new technology only after long and deep consideration of its full effect on their lives and families, as relates to faith, temptation, righteousness.

Typical Americans are heedless with things shiny and new. To our and our children’s detriment. Repeatedly. Continuously.


181 posted on 02/16/2018 6:20:52 AM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: whistleduck

“What now is the moral standard in this secular post-Christianity society for most?”

Political correctness.
Do not judge anyone.
Evil does not exist, nor God.
Women = men.
Children = adults.
Our ancestors were ignorant.
Only whites are racists.


182 posted on 02/16/2018 6:27:33 AM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: LibsRJerks

My father was a Boy Scout council commissioner. When my brother was in the boys ran the show and the fathers were there to make sure no one got hurt. By the time I was able join it shifted. We ended up being a babysitting service. Parents would drop off the kids and leave, then come back later. They didn’t get involved.


183 posted on 02/16/2018 9:54:33 AM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigratizon laws)
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To: robroys woman

Agreed on almost all of that (and I don’t always agree with you!)


184 posted on 02/17/2018 6:42:20 AM PST by Paul R. (I don't want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world. -D. Trump)
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To: Paul R.; Alberta's Child

This isn’t exactly what we were talking about, but scary in a different way:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/who-teaches-the-teachers/article/11178

There’s this, albeit a bit old:
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-06-20/news/1998171059_1_teacher-certification-haydu-certification-test

The teachers unions whined about how tough the tests were, but a newspaper published the questions - and then the real firestorm began, as most of the questions could be correctly answered with no previous knowledge on the subject, just by comprehending the information given.


185 posted on 02/20/2018 11:17:47 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Paul R.; Alberta's Child

Here’s an in-depth assessment:

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rs9f/fordham.pdf

“This report takes a close look at teacher preparation and hiring practices in Pennsylvania, and then considers the qualifications of those who ultimately emerge from the process and are hired to teach in the state. It reviews in detail the various factors that conspire to produce a poorly qualified teaching force: low admissions standards for prospective teachers; vague curricular requirements at teachers colleges; low cut-off scores on licensing exams; and misguided (and sometimes questionable) hiring practices that place little emphasis on an applicant’s content knowledge. While the weaknesses of pre-service teacher training are not unfamiliar, Strauss contends that the flaws in the hiring process itself turn out to be so great that they may overwhelm even an improved preparation system.”


186 posted on 02/20/2018 11:55:45 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: polymuser

posted link


187 posted on 02/20/2018 11:57:01 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Thx.

Consider what pubic school teachers’ and NEA’s actual mission is: Indoctrination of American children over time, to eventually create a Marxist society.

It’s not about reading, writing and arithmetic, which student outcomes over the years demonstrate. They thought Obama was the goal attained, and Hillary the padlock.

Are you familiar with The Frankfurt School (of social Marxism), which came to America in the late 1940’s? They made Columbia U their headquarters (who do we know that studied there?), infiltrated teaching colleges then D party then media then churches, and brought us sensitivity training and concensus building.


188 posted on 02/21/2018 6:52:46 AM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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