Public School Education System Thread

[Speaker to Animals]

LOL

Diversity means milk products are not the best idea in government schools. Make it optional. Lots of kids cannot digest it.

[Fife]

We could do well to open an unschool like this one; except we'll have the kids also responsible for growing food in a garden, hunting, cleaning, and cooking squirrels, and fishing.

[Fife]

The U.S. Dept of Education is fantastic, eh, fam?

School-Safety Panel Said to Pull Punches, Fearing 'Racist' Tag

For fear of being labeled racist, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stopped short of linking the Parkland, Fla., school massacre to lenient Obama-era discipline policies aimed at reducing suspensions and arrests of minority students, say staffers and others involved in an investigation of school safety led by her.

Education Department officials, as well as investigation witnesses, said DeVos and co-commissioner Jeff Sessions, then the U.S. attorney general, thought it would be politically radioactive to single out the race-based policies for blame in the tragedy, despite the evidence, so they excluded it entirely from the final report.

The Federal Commission on School Safety did recommend rescinding the Obama-era discipline guidelines in its report issued late last month – and has suffered an angry backlash from civil rights groups, Democrats and others who accused the administration of being insensitive to black children.

But its failure to make the connection to Parkland has also upset some parents of the shooting victims, who partly blame lenient discipline policies for the bloodbath that killed 17 students and school staff almost one year ago, Feb. 14.

[DBTrek]

But ... school shooters are overwhelmingly white.

Are they saying that because discipline was viewed as racist, white school shooters are slipping through the cracks? Cuz I get the odd impression that these cats hellbent on murdering up a school don’t give a flip about school discipline.

“I was going to go all homicidal up in there, but I might get suspended”

[Fife]

Tales from Supermax Public Middle School:

[GloryofGreece]

Students don't have due process in schools. Do they at home either? School can be more like a prison than a learning environment. Especially in poor urban districts. School is more about control and order, no denying that .

[Fife]

Public schools are *literally* prisons. Or slave camps, if one prefers.

[clubgop]

Students don't have due process in schools. Do they at home either? School can be more like a prison than a learning environment. Especially in poor urban districts. School is more about control and order, no denying that .

I always tell people this and the emotional ones like dirty dick get this visceral emotional reaction.

[GloryofGreece]

Public schools are *literally* prisons. Or slave camps, if one prefers.

Haha so good.Probably a good case to made that more small communal areas should be in charge of their kids lives and learning but that won't happen and cannot happen in a post Malthusian world.

[Fife]

I doubt that.