I think it is time for a channel change here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Therefore I offer a subject change - something different to bitch about or ignore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No need to thank me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating how out of control our school system is thanks to LIE-beral manipulation! With some comments of my own in brackets):
'Tough' kids, lax administration make for high school hell
By Sue-Ann Levy
Published: July 19, 2018. Updated: July 19, 2018 8:40 AM EDT
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ News/ Toronto & GTA
Auto shop teacher Rob Ball used to enjoy his time teaching at Scarborough’s Bendale Business and Technical Institute — until two years ago.
The population of “tough” kids at this Toronto District School Board -TDSB- technical high school used to know “not to cross a certain line,” he says.
But in the last two years the “line doesn’t exist any more,” kids have “cussed him blind,” threatened to “slap” him out, hurled obscene epithets at him and other teachers, come and go as they please — with few to no consequences due to the board’s Progressive Discipline policy, handed-down by the Kathleen Wynne government in 2013 and embraced wholeheartedly by equity-obsessed TDSB education director Dr. John Malloy.
(Being black or native is not an excuse for total anarchy and utter disrespect for all white people!! However- with all due respect to teachers- this is what happens when you develop a reputation for ruthless gravy grabbing greed!! The more you get paid- the better your performance MUST BE!! Getting paid like royalty means you must be miracle workers to live up to your exalted pay grade!!! Teachers have UTTERLY failed to win public support due to their greed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Ball, who’s taught for the TDSB for 17 years, was one of dozens of teachers and custodians — some retired, some not — who contacted me in response to my Monday piece on courageous elementary school teacher Shawn Goldman, who told the Toronto Sun he’d feel safer as a prison guard than teaching at Brookhaven Public School, where violence, physical and verbal assaults and obscene language are a daily occurrence.
(Yes- and we should also ask how many of the thugs at the school are the children of immigrants selected by Pierre Trudeau over the protests of Cdns who knew what SMALL chance the kids would have to smoothly assimilate thanks to crap attitudes and absent parents!! Teachers VOTED for this LIE-beral mess and now they are whining about being caught up in it!! Don’t like your teacher working conditions?? THEN STOP VOTING LIE-beral and seek honest change!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Like Goldman, Ball agrees that the lunatics are running the asylum and administration has turned a blind eye to the problems.
(In other words LIE-beral policies are unfolding as EXPECTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
In the fall, he’s moving to Maplewood High School, a high school for special needs students who he’s been told will appreciate being taught.
“I don’t see the progression -in the discipline … there’s no discipline…,” he said. “Suspensions don’t happen.”
(Of course there will be no suspensions- under LIE-berals the schools have evolved into a giant baby sitting and day care club!! Sending kids home for bad behaviour represents denial of an essential service!!!!!!!!)
Malloy has denied that the board won’t support suspensions — noting that some are “mandatory” under the Education Act. However he did qualify that the rest are “discretionary” and “used as a last resort within a spectrum of progressive discipline.”
(And educators routinely put all manner of wild behaviour into that “discretionary” category just to hide the true level of disorder in our schools!!!!)
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Over coffee Wednesday, Ball said the school’s trustee David Smith came to his auto shop during the last few weeks of school in June to have his SUV repaired and did not ask anything about the school or seem to have much knowledge of what’s truly occurring within its walls.
(Well NO! If accurate reports are made then LIE-beral policy will be seen as having FAILED! And that aint acceptable! Best not to ask or know anything!!!!!)
Smith didn’t respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
Ball says in the past year, a pregnant teacher had chairs thrown at her. He’s also observed a young lady of about 15 scream at a supply principal of Asian origin, “You fat old Chink…”
One student told a female teacher: “Lick my f— p— you b—.”
He’s watched kids buying drugs in the field outside his auto shop and smoke weed in the hallways and under the stairwells.
Two years ago, administration told Bendale teachers not to insist students take off their baseball caps and hoodies in class because “it’s part of their uniform.”
(That is no big deal- LIE-beral hug a thug judges learned long ago not to bother thugs about hats and hoodies in COURT! And school is small beer compared to court isnt it??????????)
Some girls come to class with their body parts showing, but many teachers are afraid to say too much because vexatious students will report them and administration will send the teachers on “home assignment” without even checking if the student stories are truthful.
(Female body parts showing? Hmm......do some teachers enjoy the show? Or are teachers cowed and too afraid to comment on dress codes for fear of some sort of sexual assault allegation? There was a case in United States where a FEMALE principal was recently FIRED for making school girls strip down to their underwear so the clothing could be searched for stolen items- with the kids later reporting FALSELY to their parents that they were completely stripped naked before being searched without good cause!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
“It’s letting them do whatever they want,” he said. “Now you have to be very cautious of what you say.”
(Allegations of sexual assault are serious business- but so is false accusation - with NO logical way to defend yourself if kids go on the attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
He said meetings were held between representatives of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation /OSSTF and the principal and superintendent, but issues were never resolved.
Efforts to reach an OSSTF spokesman were unsuccessful Wednesday, despite promises that I would get a comment.
(I have been told by some teachers that a school principal is generally selected based on ability to smooth over problems! A principal is supposed to keep a written record of serious events- fights between students, attacks on staff and etc but from personal experience I can state that a principal thinks nothing of “forgetting” to make any entry in the journal and of denying later- even in the face of other written evidence - that anything note worthy ever occurred!!!!!!!!!!!)
He said the School Resource Officers (SROs) — which were eliminated by the nutty trustees on the TDSB this past year — were the “best thing” for the school and the school was “much safer” when they were there.
(There has even been some polling done showing that most kids AGREE with having cops in school on patrol- but that does not sit well with LIE-berals so those polls are ignored!!!!!!)
Ball makes it clear that there are good kids in the school.
“When you have bad kids in the class and the good kids are trying to learn something, it takes away from their education,” he said.
The standardized test results from Bendale speak for themselves. Literacy averages at about Grade 5 among students and math skills are even lower, he said.
(This is a HIGH SCHOOL - where the literacy rate average is 5th grade??? And we all know how teachers like to fudge the numbers to make things LOOK better - so how BAD is it really!!!!!)
He feels the general decline in society starts in the schools and is carried out to the streets, noting that the violence this summer on Toronto’s streets is a consequence of that.
(I second that notion! Lack of response to challenges equals increasingly BRAZEN challenges and lack of control among thugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)