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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (776317)	3/23/2014 3:50:08 PM
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you live in sleepy hollow where the men are still fukking the sheep, it's a well known fact about the area you live in, it's the talk in Albany about you mountain goobers

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (776317)	3/23/2014 3:57:47 PM
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I am a new teacher in Baltimore County this year and I am having a terrible time with discipline. In my most underperforming class, I feel like I am teaching pre-schoolers instead of high school students. Indeed, on bad days I am teaching nothing at all — I’m simply an unarmed, untrained jailer for 45 excruciating minutes. Our weakest students have learned, seemingly long ago, that it is easier to make a ruckus than to sit down and shut up. Every student passes. No one is ever suspended for more than 10 days. Most school administrators simply want to climb the only career ladder open to them. So long as an administrator can prove that he/she tried to intervene with an inexpensive, ineffective community conference, there is nothing to delay his/her ascension to the top. I have not been physically injured, yet, but it’s only a matter of luck. Every day I go to school mentally prepared for physical injury. It’s a very dirty, sad business being a jailer, I miss being a teacher. Jessica Whitlock-Schettine, Baltimore then an idiot liberal replies Blair Lee’s tirade criticizing the shift away from zero-tolerance policies, “Spare the rod, spoil the school,” hypes violent youth offenses in schools without providing solutions. In fact, Maryland aims to “prepare all students to be college and career ready” that’s why it’s so critical that schools create a positive climate to engage all students and teach those who demonstrate inappropriate behavior better conflict management skills. If students are suspended the likelihood of dropping out increases exponentially ... 42.5 percent of dropouts entered the juvenile justice system. There is little data that suspensions teach students to better manage their conflict next time. Punishment may be necessary, yet it remains critical to restore the offender to the school community. Barbara Sugarman Grochal, director, University of Maryland Center for Dispute Resolution then blair lee responds Dear Ms. Grochal, While you’re busy living in Fantasyland over at the university, poor Jessica Whitlock-Schettine is fending for her life in a Real World classroom. In your cockeyed view, school suspensions cause drop-outs which lead to juvenile crime. No, these feral youths end up in prison for the same reasons they were suspended, not because they were suspended. The Baltimore city school system recently adopted your “restorative justice” approach to discipline including the “daily rap” where teachers “build open communications with students so they can talk and resolve” and “morning meetings” where “students sit in a circle and do activities together to help build caring.” You know, all the stuff they should have learned at home. According to the Baltimore schools code of conduct (2013-2014), here are the student infractions for which out-of-school suspensions cannot be given: cheating, habitual truancy, under influence of alcohol, disrupting class, failing to follow instructions, profane language, shoving, pushing, gambling, refusal to obey school policies, indecent exposure and sexual activity (pre-K to five). And here are the infractions for which “restorative justice” must be attempted before issuing a suspension: two or more intentional attacks on students, serious disruption (turning over tables, throwing objects), using drugs, fighting, extortion, attacks on personnel, sexual activity, and possessing/selling explosives. How on earth can anyone run a classroom under those conditions? Your kind of fuzzy thinking is destroying public confidence and ruining our school system. Blair