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