This school in Chicago is upset about guns. Well, not guns, but legally required pictures of guns -
Some school officials aren’t happy about the stickers because they contain a very basic image of a gun.No, you mouth-breathing idiot, the general public will be alarmed to find you in charge of a high school, let alone that you had the mental capacity to graduate from high school yourself..
“It is bothersome to have to post a sticker of a gun that says, ‘Hey, folks, leave your guns at home,’” Theresa Nolan, principal of Tinley Park High School, told the SouthtownStar.
Nolan stressed that she is very concerned with “safety and security” and concerned that, somehow, someone could wrongly interpret an image of a gun emblazoned with the universal sign for prohibiting something.
“I think the general public will be alarmed by it and wonder if people have been allowed to bring guns to school in the past,” Nolan also fretted.
Perhaps her high school students can write a paper on the magical, invisible force field that protects them once they step into the Gun Free Zone.
Click your ruby slippered heels together, Theresa, keep them clicking...
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Perhaps THE BEST article I've seen on helping teachers that are trapped in a Gun Free Zone have a chance of saving their lives and the lives of their students. I was so impressed, I sent a copy of it to my wife, who is a 5th grade teacher. She shared it with the teachers at her school.
Everything begins at the door. The door is a chokepoint. That narrow gap which decreases an aggressor's ability to attack, while increasing your odds for a successful defense. Everything depends upon what does or does not happen here. Therefore THE primary concern is to prevent an active shooter from gaining entry to the room. Locking a door is a problem if the door doesn't have locks. Reasoning as to why they don't is not the objective here. Creating a solution is.This article is full of simple, inexpensive and most importantly, effective ways to keep the bad guys at bay while the good guys are on the way.
I predict a run on gallon jugs of cooking oil and 30 pound bags of kitty litter. The 15 inch wrench - for classroom repairs, of course - has already been purchased, along with a homemade paracord wrist strap. Don't want that baby slipping out of your hand while you're
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It seems that a local all-girls Catholic school was going to help celebrate Black History Month by having a lunch which celebrates blacks in the school. You know, like when it's Hispanic Month, you might serve tacos or burritos or tamales. Filipino Month might have pansit and lumpia. You get it.
Well, for Black History month, they decided to serve fried chicken, collard greens, cornbread and watermelon.
Apparently, this was uber Politically Incorrect -
The principal and dean of the school refused to talk to NBC Bay Area on Wednesday, but school officials held an assembly on campus to discuss the issue and sent an apology letter to parents.Seriously? There are now Politically Incorrect fruits and vegetables? What the hell is wrong with these principals?
"I'd like to apologize for the announcement and any hurt this caused students, parents or community members," Principal Nancy Libby said in the letter. "Please know that at no time at Carondelet do we wish to perpetrate racial stereotypes."
As most of the commentors noted, what the hell SHOULD have been served? And if the principal was so concerned about offending blacks and "racial stereotypes", why didn't she profusely apologize to the students and parents that were offended by the tacos, burritos and lumpia?
BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T OFFENDED!
This "boy who cried wolf" (oops, can I say 'boy' when discussing blacks?) crap is doing nothing more than desensitizing the public when a legitimate complaint is aired.
The Reverend Al should be proud of his work here.
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When I attended school, if you got out of line, you were put on detention. Do it again, and you got a suspension. In both cases, your parents got a call, and there would be hell to pay once you got home.
Nowadays, the process is much more lenient - students can, "push the envelope" much further, but when they do, the detention and suspensions still happen. On top of that, because of this lenient culture, some students go WAY too far, and the criminal justice system gets involved.
Well, apparently, too many minorities are getting violent in school and ending up in jail. That's just not acceptable -
Winning praise from civil rights advocates, the U.S. Department of Education released new federal guidelines Wednesday aimed at stopping an explosion in student suspensions, expulsions and referrals to the criminal-justice system.Yeah. The rules are only applied to the poor and minorities. And it's the "overly punitive discipline" that's at fault, not the actions of said poor and minorities.
The ideas are a response to mounting concerns that overly punitive discipline is pushing too many low-income and minority students out of schools and toward failure rather than helping them engage academically. The Department of Education and the Department of Justice teamed up in a two-year effort to develop lists of resources and principles that educators have found effective at keeping campuses orderly without resorting to kicking out kids.
The proponents of these changes say that minorities are treated more harshly than whites for the same offense. OK, prove it. And if you do, sue the hell out of the school and the administrator that enforced the punishment.
Instead, they want to cherry-pick some instances of disparate treatment, and point to them as the norm. That's a steaming pile of crap.
I can tell you that, from my personal experience, it is usually the other way around. Minorities are given much more leeway. If they're punished, the school administrators come down on the teachers because so many of the classroom disrupters are black (usually) and, "it doesn't look good."
This was one of the primary reasons we sent our boys to a private school during their elementary and middle school years. The two schools they would have attended were out of control. If we wanted them to get an education, we could either move or pay for private school. We couldn't afford to move, and could barely afford the tuition, but we made due.
For high school, it was a similar situation, and in that instance, we moved to a district with a good reputation. My wife and I have already agreed that when/if our sons have children, we will help them to be home schooled, or at worse, attend a private school. Public schools are a joke.
I'm sure the schools will be much better once the classroom disrupters are allowed to stay in the class regardless of their actions. Yeah, that'll work out just fine...
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Yeah, i agree. I'm thinking I'm going to home school when the kids get to that age. The schools are horrible now. They teach to the lowest common denominator and if your child is above that, they are in trouble.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons my wife teaches at a private (Catholic) school is because they are allowed to discipline the kids when they misbehave. No, there aren't any wicked nuns whacking knuckles with rulers! You mess up, there are consequences. They are spelled out at the beginning of the year to both the kids and the parents. While "big donors" to the church seem to get a pass sometimes with their kids from the principal, by and large, the kids are held accountable. What a concept, huh?
ReplyDeleteHer salary now - after 15 years - is about half the pay of a government school teacher. We knew that going in. It's worth every penny in mental health points! Plus, you actually get to teach kids, not babysit them.