I have it on good authority that;
A student brought a knife to Jimmy Carter Middle School.
He had brought the knife to school with the intention of using it.
He was caught, APSPD wanted to arrest him and press charges,
and then administration intervened.
His parents made a stink, and now he is back at school.
Many staff and teachers at the school are outraged.
Is all or any of this, true?
I guess the point is that
there is no reason to believe that, it is not true.
Teachers and staffs are outraged across the district.
The data would show that, if the data were collected.
The last audit by the Council of the Great City Schools
revealed that principals routinely falsified crime statistics
in order to make their schools look good.
The cleanest way to falsify data, is to not create it;
no paper trail;
what kid? what knife?
There is a document called
There is a part of that document called
who willfully misbehave, will suffer some mandatory consequence.
The promise is diametric to the truth, which is that
principals take advantage of language in the Handbook,
that teachers call the "weasel clause".
In effect, the clause says that
administrators can do anything that they want to do,
and then justify it by saying that they used their "best judgment".
An administrator's best judgment is not subject to question
or review.
The leadership of the APS doesn't want to talk about student
discipline.
They don't want to talk about student discipline because;
So they just won't talk about it.
And teachers
who see their sacrifices made pointless in out of control schools,
find other lines of work.
The teacher shortage is not because the colleges of education
are not turning out enough graduates.
It is because half of new teachers quit teaching in the first few
years, and half of the remaining teachers, quit in the next.
Student discipline is not on the table for honest and open
public discussion.
It should be.
So what am I supposed to do about it?
The system has no place where the issue of student discipline
can be addressed, and no place to complain about the fact that
there is no place to address the issue.
Submitted as only one of many subjects about which,
the leadership of the APS will not tell the truth.
A student brought a knife to Jimmy Carter Middle School.
He had brought the knife to school with the intention of using it.
He was caught, APSPD wanted to arrest him and press charges,
and then administration intervened.
His parents made a stink, and now he is back at school.
Many staff and teachers at the school are outraged.
Is all or any of this, true?
I guess the point is that
there is no reason to believe that, it is not true.
Teachers and staffs are outraged across the district.
The data would show that, if the data were collected.
The last audit by the Council of the Great City Schools
revealed that principals routinely falsified crime statistics
in order to make their schools look good.
The cleanest way to falsify data, is to not create it;
no paper trail;
what kid? what knife?
There is a document called
the Student Behavior Handbook.Technically, it is an extension of school board policy.
There is a part of that document called
Minimum Mandatory Consequences.It represents the district's promise that students
who willfully misbehave, will suffer some mandatory consequence.
The promise is diametric to the truth, which is that
principals take advantage of language in the Handbook,
that teachers call the "weasel clause".
In effect, the clause says that
administrators can do anything that they want to do,
and then justify it by saying that they used their "best judgment".
An administrator's best judgment is not subject to question
or review.
The leadership of the APS doesn't want to talk about student
discipline.
They don't want to talk about student discipline because;
- it is a powerful influence on success in schools,
- it is in the toilet, and
- it is an administrative responsibility.
So they just won't talk about it.
And teachers
who see their sacrifices made pointless in out of control schools,
find other lines of work.
The teacher shortage is not because the colleges of education
are not turning out enough graduates.
It is because half of new teachers quit teaching in the first few
years, and half of the remaining teachers, quit in the next.
Student discipline is not on the table for honest and open
public discussion.
It should be.
So what am I supposed to do about it?
The system has no place where the issue of student discipline
can be addressed, and no place to complain about the fact that
there is no place to address the issue.
Submitted as only one of many subjects about which,
the leadership of the APS will not tell the truth.
6 comments:
So the question of the day now is: would an independent APS-APD be able to do their job w/o interference of onsite / APS Admin, or would they become more submissive to the admin that want their schools to look good?
That is the million dollar question isn't it.
My guess is that since we are really only pretending to be in the business of education, we will sweep everything under the proverbial rug so that the real business of education, real estate and construction, can continue without those pesky facts being known.
This last comment posted was proven by Tom Savage. He related that realtors woud have his neck if he was candid about crime in his school when he was a principal.
Is there any APS admin with guts, with ethics, ...are there any onsite admin that would hold themselves accountable as a "role model"?
I can tell you that in a prominent High school here in APS that the low-wage non-uniformed security force tells the APS-APD officer what to do and what not to do in terms of arrests, searches, and cuffing. This has been under the knowing of the Vice principal and principal in charge.
Incidentally, that High school (starts with an "M") has had a high turn over of APS-APD officers. Reassignment reason usually given: "personal reasons".
MAny security guards within APS, and maybe APS-APD officers, have stated that onsite admin is not reporting crimes and problems partly because they want to save money. How?
If a school looks good on paper, an administrator can say that they don't need that many security guards or that many APPS-APD for the following year. Those $$ therefore would go into other resources.
There seems to be a growing "wall of distrust" between campus security and admin, partly due to this. Also due to security documenting crimes and bad behavior to thier bosses, which is usually a far higher amount that onsite admin reporting to his/her own boss.
Therefore someone is misleading, someone is not taking care of bad student behavior.
Reduce the # of security guards (which has been done off and on before), and WHAM! no more discrepancies.
The schools will look beautiful on paper, the witnesses to conflicting reports will be eliminated, teachers will "hide" in their classes during lunch and breaktime.
Kids will be bullied, drugs will be passed, absences will increase.... BUT HEY!.... the school will look good!
What a mess we have gotten into! Seemingly, no resolution in sight.
lets not forget that the kids who grow up in this environment are often passed along to the next grade without truly knowing applicable learned skills, their knowledge limited to refurgitating test questions for NCLB.
And the culture of "looking the other way" is seen and is absorbed by our youths. Maybe they will rebel against it. Hate being like the old people kids? Have some ethics!
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