Violence in our Schools Part II: Liberal Psychosis Destroying the Public Schools before our Very Eyes..

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



 my own students in public schools and from friends that have children in our schools that violence, misbehavior, drugs, all these things are occurring at alarming levels, this is wrong.  Everything is not fine, and teacher morale is at an all-time low in many schools.    Yet, policy makers here (and other places nationwide) change terminology and reclassify discipline offenses to make numbers look better-then they smile and golf-clap for the cameras as they call this progress.   But it is not progress-- it is appeasement.  The sad thing is that many sheeple believe these “leaders” when they say things are getting better.

But the true test is churn.

Churn among educators.  Churn among TFA teachers who are dropping like flies.  Churn among parents who at the first sign of problems are moving their own kids out of troubled schools.  Churn among subs that will not work at some schools due to the levels of misbehavior, violence, and disruptions.  Churn among students opting-out of the public schools choosing charters and private schools out of concern for the decaying atmospheres in some of these public schools.

This churn cannot be ignored.  Liberals will give all sorts of explanations, prognostications, and estimations.  They’ll say what is most politically palatable and expedient.

They know the real reason why but will neither confront nor attempt to slay that dragon.  Nope, the path of least resistance is their way.  Someone else later will fix it.  Can-kicking and status-quo maintenance, that’s what rules the day.

But the fact of the matter is that these atmosphere and climate problems are 100% within our control if we have the guts to take back our schools and DEMAND that one standard be applied and enforced.  One standard applied to any student who assaults another student or teacher---regardless of what the offender looks like.  One standard applied to any student who brings drugs onto our campus.  One standard, firm but fair.  What is so difficult about this?

Sadly, it appears that here and elsewhere this will not occur. 

We practice the pacifist, Chamberlainian approach on many fronts. 

Appeasement of the outside special interest groups who wrongly accuse us of targeting minorities for harsher discipline, appeasement of the uber-leftist aristocratic policymakers who have never stepped foot in an inner-city school and whose own children attend homogenous, sub-urban public or private schools.  Appeasement of the media when we agree with them that we have been too aggressive on discipline and we will “Change.”

In many respects the sad fact is we’ve been given more than enough of the resources to succeed, yet we are tearing down our own system from the inside out with our refusal to control our school climate and learning environment.

If we’re truly being honest, this is where we fail.

If we could just fix this, and we can, we have the capacity to handle all the other challenges that go along with educating kids.  And we would grow enrollments, and we would improve morale for teachers and bus drivers, and deans and administrators.  We would improve the life for students who are routinely subjected to bullying, harassment, and intimidation that goes on unabated and unrestrained—and yes, under-reported-- in some or our schools.

I’m going to keep talking about this as long as I have a pulse and am breathing oxygen, that’s how important this is to the future of students, parents, taxpayers and the entire U.S. Public School System!