Sunday, November 08, 2015
Astonishing! Amazing! Unthinkable! Who could expect it?
From Los Angeles:
... The teacher steps between them. When she tries to regain order, another boy tells her: "Screw you." It's another day of disruption on this campus in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which has been nationally hailed by the White House and others for its leadership in promoting more progressive school-discipline policies. The district moved to ban suspensions amid national concern that they imperil academic achievement and disproportionately affect minorities, particularly African Americans.What a monstrous surprise! Nobody expected it! Couldn't have been foreseen! First time in the universe! Snideness aside, here's the GENUINELY amazing part:
At Los Angeles Academy Middle School in South L.A., teachers ... say they are overwhelmed by what they consider ineffective responses to students who push, threaten and curse them. The stress over discipline prompted two teachers to take leaves of absence in the last two months. "My teachers are at their breaking point," Art Lopez, the school's union representative, wrote to union official Colleen Schwab in a letter obtained by The Times. "Everyone working here is highly aware of how the lack of consequences has affected the site. Teachers with a high number of students with discipline issues are walking a fine line between extreme stress and a emotional meltdown."A UNION THUG speaking truth! A UNION THUG pushing for common sense! This is truly unprecedented, truly 'nobody could have expected it'. Especially since these no-discipline policies were pushed and approved by a D-team president. Nothing will change, of course. Teachers will continue to leave the profession permanently, and sensible parents will continue to find private schools. Sounds dismally familiar. Happened to me 30 years ago, in a DeVry school where the admin's refusal to suspend bad students had a different cause but the same result.
Labels: Experiential education
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