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The education system can not do everything. If people don't want to raise kids responsibly, they shouldn't have kids.
This whole downward spiral started with the breakdown of the family and the education system taking on more.
No but they can have better discipline policies towards students.
It's a joke what students are allowed to get away with.
All because the school wants to make sure they qualify for their federal $$$$.
Students not in school count against the school for fed $$$.
OMG!! What the hell is wrong with people today? Why on earth would you try to murder someone because you broke the law and were suspended for drug use? Parents of the Year Award nominees right here! Animals like this make me realize why the death penalty still exists. If they're trying to burn people to death while in high school, they will never be anything in society as adults.....they'll just continue on their path to becoming murderers.
I work in the schools. And I refuse to go into any HS anymore.
It's one thing to get cursed out by 12 year olds but at 16-18 they not only curse you out but threaten you.
The last incident I had in a HS was a kid who wouldn't stop talking while someone was reading out loud.
I asked him to please stop talking. His friends snickered at him and he blew up at me telling me I "disrespected him and I was going to get what was owed to me". Then he stormed out of the classroom. I let him go and just called the office. Said he threatened me and I let him walk.
At the end of the day I went to the office. The secretary apologized to me for the student and that he went to ISS for the rest of the day. (ISS is in school suspension). Basically a slap on the wrist and to kids like that ISS means they don't have to go to class or do any work.
Since then I have refused any and all HS jobs.
Wow school has certainly changed! Way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was in high school, ISS didn't mean you don't have any work. The exact opposite! They gave you the lessons for the day. You had to complete the work done in class and the homework while serving the suspension. You had to show the work to the teacher before you could leave for the day. If it wasn't done, you were sent to detention. If it still wasn't done because you weren't really doing it - not because you needed help and made an effort - you were in ISS again the next day now with 2 days of work. Rinse. Repeat. If you racked up 3 days of this, you were then given OSS which was basically a day off for the frequent flyers.
I work in the schools. And I refuse to go into any HS anymore.
It's one thing to get cursed out by 12 year olds but at 16-18 they not only curse you out but threaten you.
The last incident I had in a HS was a kid who wouldn't stop talking while someone was reading out loud.
I asked him to please stop talking. His friends snickered at him and he blew up at me telling me I "disrespected him and I was going to get what was owed to me". Then he stormed out of the classroom. I let him go and just called the office. Said he threatened me and I let him walk.
At the end of the day I went to the office. The secretary apologized to me for the student and that he went to ISS for the rest of the day. (ISS is in school suspension). Basically a slap on the wrist and to kids like that ISS means they don't have to go to class or do any work.
Since then I have refused any and all HS jobs.
Yep. I had the principal call me a few years ago over something one of my kids did. Mind you we aren't in a *rough* school area...typically pretty mixed income etc.
They almost sounded shocked when I completely took their side and told them that there would be further punishment at home for their actions. You could tell they were preparing to hear a flurry of excuses, deflections and otherwise complete refusal to take any responsibility.
I hear all the same stuff from my relatives that work in teaching (rural Illinois).
It's a widespread social affliction....involves kids of different races, household incomes, geography etc etc.
Geez. And I remember feeling like a jerk for sprinkling a bunch of fake toy cockroaches on a teacher's desk during junior high because she didn't accept a two-week late paper.
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Back in my day (I graduated in 1978) we'da just toilet papered his house... what IS the world coming to?
I was born in 1990, graduated high school in 2008, and what they did is unthinkable to me, too. I must be old now.
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