A girl's fight! More news from your "award winning" Schenectady City Schools. What award? Worst running School District in the Nation? But listen to Sal and keep looking the other way.
Hey remember that these kids have rights now. Couple that with lack of discipline at home and restricted discipline in the schools there is no chance in hell to take control.
A friend of mine 'use' to sub in the schenectady school district. Not no more. They said that there is 'no control' over those kids. I know that subs always get the worst treatment, but pulling a chair out from behind the teacher before they sat down is pretty much bottom feeder behavior. And when they do get so out of hand that the teacher no longer has the tools to control them, they are sent to the office where their parents are called. Another waste of time!
Now I'm not saying that this is the case for 'all' kids/parents, but what do you want the school to do? All of the schools have their hands tied when it comes to disciplining the kids. Hey...the government says kids have rights now. And kids rights rule!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Escorts for students a necessary evil at Sch’dy High
While we don’t think Schenectady High School has earned the dubious distinction conferred on it by the state Education Department as one of New York’s 19 most “persistently dangerous” schools, it’s no convent — as anyone who’s spent any time there in recent years realizes, and as Monday’s felony-level fracas underscored. So why, at a recent meeting, were several members of the school board, including President Jeff Janiszewski, challenging a policy that requires students who move about the building outside normal passing times to be escorted by adults? Having to secure an escort (along with a pass) to go visit a teacher or the bathroom when most everyone else is in class is unquestionably a pain, not to mention demeaning to well-behaved students. But the trade-off seems necessary. When fights break out in the hallways on a regular basis; when in-school bullying reportedly contributed to the recent rash of suicides; when one of the school’s bathrooms was the scene of an attempted suicide last fall, it seems prudent to err on the side of caution in keeping a tight rein on students. If that means restricting their movement, or watching them at all times, so be it. Even if a policy like this isn’t necessary for the majority of the school’s students, it absolutely is for some. And until administrators can come up with a policy that differentiates but doesn’t discriminate, it should be one of those inconveniences that all students learn to live with.
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A girl's fight! More news from your "award winning" Schenectady City Schools. What award? Worst running School District in the Nation? But listen to Sal and keep looking the other way.
