The school system bullies the children to comply and conform to the state mandated rules and regulations, forcing them to sit still in uncomfortable desks, in classes that do not interest them, only allowing them to speak when granted permission, allowing them to go to the bathroom when granted permission. In some schools they are walked through metal detectors and frisked and in some cases the schools are patrolled by armed police officers. And we wonder where the behavior of bullying is learned.
The school system bullies the children to comply and conform to the state mandated rules and regulations, forcing them to sit still in uncomfortable desks, in classes that do not interest them, only allowing them to speak when granted permission, allowing them to go to the bathroom when granted permission. In some schools they are walked through metal detectors and frisked and in some cases the schools are patrolled by armed police officers. And we wonder where the behavior of bullying is learned.
Point taken...........HOWEVER...............what should be used in place of the present system?
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
How about we go back to the HOME and THE PARENTS! Isn't that where it is suppossed to begin, but also where failure starts? If it doesn't originate from home, then where else does the influence come from....comes from peers.
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
having our kids ride the school buses is just like the horse breeder who pays someone to drive their horses to race courses... or any other animal transportation....
maturation can happen very well in OPEN SPACES,,,ie: walking to school because---walking the road of life IS by one's own 2 feet UNLESS one wishes to think the system loves ya so much that it just sends magic carpets to pick you up/drive you/place you and tell you everything without effort on your part........then by all means take those 'special buses' (pun intended of course)...
don't make fun of the special bus...because ALL bus rides to school make one 'special'....it's a piece of the puzzle a generation has missed, a rung in the ladder not there, a step unfamiliar, a missed building block....
but hey,,,the internet will fix it....so will our 'smart phones'.....
sh*t...why don't we just fly the kids over to China at 8 years old where they stay until they finish their learning....without parental influence other than "IT'S FOR THE STATE"
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
If there is one person on this board that has an intimate relationship with stupid...I guess you would know.
Wow ...you sure are putting me in my place from your computer. I posted a simple "are you serious" comment on your post and you have to resort to name calling by calling me a "state paid bully" (I am still trying to figure that comment out). Maybe we can meet for coffee sometime and you can explain the comment to me. I love to make new friends.
Bullied bus monitor to retire Associated Press Posted: Saturday, July 28, 2012 12:21 a.m. Text size: A A A
GREECE, N.Y. — A school bus monitor who was shown in a video being relentlessly bullied by a group of boys said Friday she will retire.
Karen Klein, a 68-year-old grandmother, told The Associated Press that the decision to leave the job she held for three years was tough but wasn’t based on her now infamous encounter with the mean-spirited seventh-graders, who tormented her with profanity, insults and threats during a bus run as the school year wound down in June.
A 10-minute video of the episode went viral and spurred an outpouring of more than $700,000 in donations for Klein from all over the world.
“I’m not quitting because of what happened. That’s not it,” Klein said from her home in the Rochester suburb of Greece. “I enjoyed working with the kids. But I guess it’s my time to leave. That’s what I’ve decided.”
Although her mind is made up, she said she has yet to submit the paperwork that would make her retirement official.
Before becoming a bus aide, Klein drove a school bus for 20 years.
She said she’ll keep busy in her retirement, perhaps volunteering with organizations that help people touched by bullying or suicide.
Klein’s oldest son killed himself 10 years ago, making all the more appalling one of the students’ taunts: “You don’t have a family because they all killed themselves because they don’t want to be near you.”
The cellphone video, posted online, shows Klein trying her best to ignore the abuse.
The Greece school district has suspended the four students for a year.
A Toronto man, Max Sidorov, was so moved by Klein’s story that he started an online campaign with the goal of raising $5,000 to send her on a vacation. The fundraising site Indiegogo listed the total amount raised at $703,833. ........................>>>>..................>>>>.......................http://www.theeagle.com/article/20120728/BC0106/120729563/1103/bc20/&slId=13
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