Liberals have a way of patting themselves on the back when
they feel things are going better in the schools. In this ridiculous
piece—if a disruptive student is acting up, not following established rules
and affecting the teacher’s instruction—this is 100% the teacher’s fault and he/she
needs more training. From Salon.com
“Across the country,
educators are rethinking their approach to school discipline in response to
sky-high suspension rates that disproportionately affect black children. Some
of the more common efforts aim to change student behavior or overhaul school
protocols. A district might unilaterally ban suspensions for more subjective
transgressions or adopt restorative justice practices designed to repair
relationships when there’s been a rift. But a growing number of schools in the
Bay Area and nationally are realizing that improving discipline is just as much
about changing teacher behavior as changing student behavior.”
Meanwhile, liberals in California are busy patting
themselves on the back because they are achieving fewer expulsions, even though
student behavior, per se, has remained constant. It’s just that the discipline handed out is
much more lenient now, particularly for minority students. And this is
legislated from the state capitol.
Essentially, like they’ve done for academic rigor, they have lowered the
bar on school discipline, violence, and misbehavior so they can pat themselves
on the back and claim “success” because fewer students, particularly
minorities, are being expelled. From the
San
Jose Mercury-News
“Impetus came from the
state Legislature, which last year began limiting schools from suspending
students for defiance. Suspensions for "willful defiance" dropped
28.9 percent from 2012-13, and expulsions for the same reason dropped 47.7
percent. Previously, they accounted for
the largest number of suspensions, and were associated with a large number of
minority students' discipline.”
When Liberals (Democrat and/or Republican) squeeze this
balloon on one side, it will expand on the other—they should know this. When the politically correct educrats want a
victory and sell out teachers, the good well-behaved kids, and parents to get
it---this is not only reprehensible-it is dangerous.
They wonder why fewer and fewer students are going into the
field of education?
They wonder why some schools cannot be staffed?
It’s not a mystery.
Between careerist bureaucrats telling teachers they must endure verbal,
physical, and emotional assaults from students that are violent, disruptive,
and dangerous--- and parents and communities chastising them for being failures
at educating and disciplining students from dysfunctional households—who would
want that stress for the abysmal pay?
Teachers today have knives at their backs and knives in
their face—they get it from both directions as they receive less support than ever from both administrators and parents.
We are engaging in this very thing here in our local schools
in many instances and it is disgusting to me.
Telling the world that everything is fine in the schools when I hear
from teachers, parents, and
