Tuesday, June 7, 2011

And we teach them - how?

2 boys spend 1 year and 2 years in juvenile detention rather than tell the police who the killer was. Their mother think it is ok because it wasn't THEIR responsibility to help the police.

I loved this "Michael White spent about 11 months out of jail on bond, but his bond was revoked in June 2010 when he pushed a police officer and threatened administrators at his school, according to court records. Ennis was denied bond from the start because he had a juvenile record in California." In other words, they both acted up in school in addition to being upstanding citizens.

I currently have 9 ex students from the previous 3 years in jail: 4 for taking other people's property and 5 for selling drugs. All are repeat offenders. Two have graduated from high school. The rest should have but didn't. We don't talk about those statistics.

Edited * *
Remember Central Falls HS where all the teachers were fired to "rebuild" the school? A science teacher talks about her decision to teach there. And to leave. She references the "Restoration Project." You can find additional information here.

1 comment:

Mr. W said...

it's times like these that I always like to add; "and we are expected to make these students proficient, and if not WE are considered bad teachers"