Amid a strong police and Milwaukee Public Schools security presence, there was a report of a fight inside the building involving a youth with a gun. That led to a lockdown in which students were not allowed to leave classrooms for about 45 minutes Wednesday afternoon
This story tells a lot. First, the school talked about here is apart of the completely idiotic thought that taking bad kids and just splitting them up into small schools makes them learn better...forget about the fact they have crappy parents and a terrible community teaching them how to be failure their whole lives...
some facts about the school:
All three schools in North Division have had low academic achievement and other problems since they were launched three years ago. MPS administrators sought to close Truth Institute last spring, but, after many people involved in the school protested, the School Board agreed to give the school another year to try to improve.
State records show that 92% of the students at the School of Humanities were suspended during the 2004-'05 school year, and that there were 11 drug- or weapon-related incidents that resulted in suspension or expulsion during that year.
Amazingly, 132% of the school's students that year met the legal definition of being chronically truant - something that could happen only because there was so much turnover in the student body during the year. To be specific, 189 students were chronically truant in a school that had an official enrollment of 143.
In the state's standardized testing a year ago, fewer than 10% of the school's 10th-graders were rated proficient in each of the five areas tested. Only one of the 24 who took the tests was rated proficient in reading, science and social studies. Two were proficient in language arts, and none was proficient in math.
Lets keep ignoring the REAL problem, and keep coming up with stupid ideas to try and mask what the real issues are...
99% of the people who read this have NO idea what actually happens in an MPS school building, reading stories like this gives you a taste...and leaves a sour taste in your mouth...
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Fights, financial trouble blamed for school's demise
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Scorpion says---
So what fine or penalty were issued to the parents of the kids who were tying up twelve squads of
Milwaukee Police needed to calm the disturbance and stop the brawls? Until SOMEONE actually holds the parents or guardians of these kids accountable for their actions it will continue and get worse.It is time to do something.
Maybe MPS needs a Plank Rd school for chronically truant and violent students. Make it contingent upon scorps idea.
How about booting out the NEA union mentality and CRACK DOWN on the cretins?
What is wrong with setting up a school/boot camp where the kids are locked in and away from their bad environment?
What about teaching them that either you take responsibility for your own actions or you will be locked up?
I love the idea..I JUST thought that yesterday....maybe the only way to save the inner cities is to have boot camps all over and maybe in two generations kids will have a sense of hard work, citizenship, community, right and wrong, and the value of education
however, when the kids and families who don't want to be anything but the sewer of society drop out of school, liberals will scream that we have to take care of them and give them things or they will "become" bad people...
they don't get that they are already bad people and will do bad things...
Clint -
What about handicapped people who are incapable of graduating? What about refugees who dont speak the language well enough? What about retarded kids who cant meet graduation requirements? What about schools whose teachers just pass the students to make it look good?
Your plan is interesting, but irrevocably flawed.
pcd - Once again, you have shown that you care nothing for reading other peoples posts, and want only to listen to yourself cyber-speak. I said the same thing in the post directly before yours.
I just did a helluva post on this subject to this thread, and the damned blogger server lost it. :(
I happen to agree with pcd btw on this one with an exception:
I say we lock the little shits up in jail, make them work while in there. When they come out, they go on probation that gives them specific rules they have to meet, in school and out. For every time they break these rules, it adds another 6 months to their jail time, until they're jailed completely and the key thrown away (and there would be NO getting out of that jail time).
The problem is, is we need to get them both off the streets, and out of school when they pull something. This way, they can't wreak havoc while out of school in the streets, or vice-versa, nor can they influence other kids to wreak havoc.
Screw the parents. We've gone down that road too many times, and they are every bit the dope dealers, thieves, etc. that their kids are (where do you think the kids are learning this stuff these days, anyway?), and asking the parents to do something after it's too late for them to goes nowhere (the kids are more than half raised by high school time). Make the kids responsible for their actions. Make them realize that what they do is wrong. Sometimes it takes some harsh wake-up calls to do so.
The only way to do this, as I see it, is to take them both off the streets, and out of the schools until they can straighten up.
That's my take.
dedanna,
A school/bootcamp would be locking them up. They'd start the day just like in Marine Boot with Old Corps Marine Drill Instructors. After breakfast they'd hit the books. If they disrupt class, it would be drop and give me 50. There'd be no midnight basketball, and NO cruising the streets. Get caught with contraband, and you go to the klink.
If I read you right, 18 wouldn't be a get out of camp free card when you're in the klink for bad behavior.
Also, you'd have to earn your grades and promotions.
Clint--
"Dump the age requirement of mandatory school attendance and eliminate all gov't assistance programs for anyone who does not have a HS diploma or GED."
I've never thought of this before, but I like the idea and will steal it freely.
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