Baltimore City Schools increases number of permanent expulsions

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.expulsions19may19,0,2683888.story

Baltimore City Public Schools has increased the number of permanent expulsions for things like setting fire to the school with people in it. The feel-good people are screaming bloody murder....

But should I as a teacher be required to risk my life to teach school to a kid who thinks it witty to set fire to a trash can? Should parents be required to risk the lives of their children sending them to school, all so some punk can have his "right" to a free education that he clearly doesn't give two farts in a jam jar about????

The last I heard, arson is ILLEGAL.
Lucky the brats aren't in prison.....

Well that's the thing about schools... many things that are illegal in the real world are just "dealt with" in the school world. My co-teacher and I had to break up a chick fight at night school this year. My co-teacher ended up getting slugged in the ear, causing a bit of bruising and achiness/pain. Both students, even the one that hit her, were suspended and then returned to the same class. Keep in mind that they are IN night school after getting tossed from day school. Where do we draw the line? If you are fighting and behaving in a manner not conducive to education in the alternative school provided to you, again at added taxpayer expense, then when do we get to say "You have lost your right to a free education, and if your parents want you to get one they will need to send you to a private institution."

In the article, the boys father is quoted as saying he "can't afford to stay home with his son," and yet later in the article it says his mother works from home providing day care to non-school age children. Why is it she cannot care for her own son? Or is it that the parents of the day care children wouldn't want the son around their own kids?? Hmm.....

Then again it could also be yet another set of parents who thoughtlessly bred and are now not interested in the consequences of their behavior. But oh yeah... it's gay marriage that's going to destroy society... I totally forgot.

Ugh Lauren, I don't know how you do it.
It seems to me that too many parents don't want to be parents anymore, they want to be "buddies". They let the kids call the shots. Maybe it's because they are too tired or too busy to lay down the law. I don't know....but I don't like what I'm seeing at all.