Fairness is for people, not institutions
Thomas Sowell nails one of the main reasons public education is a disaster. My mother-in-law was a kindergarten teacher and would tell us all about the one or two bad apples she would have every year and how they would affect the rest of the class. What was even more shocking was that most of the behavioral problems were the result of the parents expecting the teachers to be babysitters and therapists rather than educators as they excused their children's behavior.
It's also another reason why I don't believe in public school. You can bet that if those parents were paying the full costs of sending those children to school they would be a lot less tolerant about bad behavior and bad grades.
It's also another reason why I don't believe in public school. You can bet that if those parents were paying the full costs of sending those children to school they would be a lot less tolerant about bad behavior and bad grades.
I have learned more from youtube lately in terms of technology than I ever did in public schools.
The changes in police ROEs in the last couple of decades are mostly a reaction to the fact that certain minorities are resisting allowing that "education" to "take".
But in reality, if parents have failed to prepare their children to behave in public or the school, it should be the parents costs if they want that child educated. This idea that it's the state's responsibility (It takes a Village) to correct for the parents failures is pure socialism.
I do object to the mis-definition of the word "fair'. It is completely fair to expel a misbehaving student. "Fair" does not mean "without let or hindrance" it means "evenhandedly appropriate". So the PC 'voice' that talks about it being 'fair' for institutions/individuals to so such-and-so is misusing the word: It is FAIR - in both cases.
Jan, protecting the word "fair"
Jan
This is not totally speculative: In China, "literacy" is the ability to read and write a couple thousand ideograms. In India, "literacy" is defined as the ability to sign your name. (Statistics on literacy ignore this difference in definition.) It is plausible that HS 'literacy' may become the ability to sign your name.
Jan
Perhaps the school lacks such a person because of discrimination law? Or because men are so afraid of being falsely charged with molestation that they won't work in schools anymore?
What I fear is that this young man is going to descend even deeper into criminal behavior and is going to be another statistic of systemic failure.
One way or the other.
I can guarantee it.
I'm quite certain he will end up in such a place.
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Cheers!
school, and didn't want to be there anymore. If I
had been able to, I would have destroyed the whole
thing.--But at least in those days, they didn't have all that chaos and disruption. Such behavior would
have resulted in application of the "board of edu-
cation" to someone's gluteous maximus. I think
that the idea that children can be raised or edu-
cated without corporal punishment is total nonsense.