What’s Behind The Massive Spike In Violence Inside Public Schools Nationwide

[pipedreams]

"This is a dangerous cocktail: missed socialization from lockdowns, falling suspension rates, demonizing police, praising looters, and encouraging activism.

In addition to COVID policies and their impact on socialization, schools are contributing to the problem by intentionally weakening discipline policies. Largely in the name of political correctness, school districts around the nation have been working to reduce racial disparities in suspensions."

https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/01/whats-behind-the-massive-spike-in-violence-inside-public-schools-nationwide/

"This is a dangerous cocktail: missed socialization due to lockdowns, falling suspension rates, sidelining and demonizing police, praising looters, and encouraging activism. When these policies are considered together, perhaps it is no surprise that our public schools are becoming more violent.

One silver lining is that each of these policies can be reversed. At bottom, this is a matter of school policy. Nothing inherently wrong with our kids. It is therefore time for education policymakers to abandon their current anti-authority and anti-discipline policies, and return schools to what they should be: safe learning environments for our children."

 

[tous]

That is all political, excuse-me-I'm-a-vicitim bullshit.

If Africans want to be suspended from school less, they should try not doing the things that get them suspended.

And, no, it cannot be reversed.  The silver lining is an illusion sponsored by the teacher's unions and all of the other "education policymakers" (Marxists.)

Home school is the silver lining, not more pointless hand-wring about poor Johnny by hippie communists.

 

[Historian]

They took GOD out of the schools.

[Huaco Kid]

If we got too far out of line,  the wrestling coach would be leaning against your locker, in the middle of the day.  He'd throw his arm around your shoulders, like a true friend, and escort you to the locker room, where you'd have a sincere heart-to-heart chat.

[crockett]

- Defunct families with lacking or no parents

- Removal of wards

- Kids growing up in a video game world with no connection to reality

- Dems engraining victimhood from an early age

- Dems engraining entitlement without achievement

- Dems letting criminals out of jail

- Dems dividing the country through instilled hate and censorship of opposing opinion or truth

- Feds ignoring signs of nutcases preparing

- Removal of God from the parent's home

The list is long.

 

[GT4494]

If my parents were called about my behavior I would not be sitting down for a week at least.  Something about them webbed uniform belts that made it so you didn't want to meet it again!!

[Walt Longmire]

I think it wasn't my scholarly achievement that promoted me from one grade to another. It was when I hit the required number of hacks that advancement was guaranteed at the end of that school year.

[tous]

1 hour ago, crockett said:

- Defunct families with lacking or no parents

- Removal of wards

- Kids growing up in a video game world with no connection to reality

- Dems engraining victimhood from an early age

- Dems engraining entitlement without achievement

- Dems letting criminals out of jail

- Dems dividing the country through instilled hate and censorship of opposing opinion or truth

- Feds ignoring signs of nutcases preparing

- Removal of God from the parent's home

The list is long.

 

Again, I suggest that along with those listed, a significant factor in bad behavior in schools is the simple fact that bad behavior in schools is not punished.

As stated numerous times previously, if you do not stop or at least impede  a bully (or a murderer) they will simply escalate their bad behavior until someone does stop them.

If a school kid behaves badly and no one smacks their knuckles with a ruler, said school kid accepts that as permission to do it again, and again, and again, and escalate the antics and do it again, and again.

One deals with bullies and anti-social thugs in three, and only three, steps:

Ask them to stop.

Tell them to stop.

Make them  stop.

 

[minderasr]

On 12/2/2021 at 8:31 PM, crockett said:

- Defunct families with lacking or no parents

- Removal of wards

- Kids growing up in a video game world with no connection to reality

- Dems engraining victimhood from an early age

- Dems engraining entitlement without achievement

- Dems letting criminals out of jail

- Dems dividing the country through instilled hate and censorship of opposing opinion or truth

- Feds ignoring signs of nutcases preparing

- Removal of God from the parent's home

The list is long.

 

...and blaming Republicans for all of it.

[Mrs.Cicero]

30 years ago, when I taught in a public school, I was told not to stay in the building beyond the last bell under any circumstances, because it wasn't safe... but in order to give a student a detention for a behavior issue I would have had to stay after the last bell.  

And people wonder why their kids can't learn in classrooms today - that would be because the teachers that would be willing to inconvenience their students (and themselves) as a consequence of the students' misbehavior, in order to discourage said behavior - have their hands tied by the system.  And God help a teacher that inconveniences a PARENT by giving a student a detention that causes the student to miss their bus/ride home, and require the parent to pick them up.

The teachers' only recourse is to wait until the behavior reaches the point that the administration HAS to get involved- when it is so bad  the teacher can administratively request the permanent removal of the student from their class.  Now, how much misbehavior do you think occurs that interferes with the learning of all the other students in the class before that can happen?

Also, FWIW, mainstreaming students with behavioral issues does a disservice to ALL the students.  If you cannot refrain from being a distraction to the rest of the class, you shouldn't be in the class.  This does NOT mean the class clown, or the kid that needs a study carrol in order to not be visually distracted, or all the ones that simply need desks far enough from others that they cannot kick, poke, or talk to their neighbor when they are supposed to be paying attention to something.  These are not insoluble distractions to others.  The insoluble distractions, however, need a different environment - This is the kid that can't stop threatening to jump out the third floor window, the one that slaps random students upside the head in class every damn day, the one that cannot stop him/herself from arguing with every single thing every other person in the room says, regardless of the consequences.  When we let those behaviors continue, we teach the kids doing them that there are no consequences to anti-social behavior, and we teach the rest of the class that and additionally we teach them that we really don't give a damn about whether they learn anything or not, since we don't care enough to give them an environment in which learning is possible.  

Rant/off

[ChuteTheMall]

I can't believe how much better schools were in the '60's, before forced busing. That's when schools became socialization laboratories.

[pipedreams]

10 hours ago, ChuteTheMall said:

I can't believe how much better schools were in the '60's, before forced busing. That's when schools became socialization laboratories.

Between that and creation of the Federal Department of Education. 

[Valmet]

Large numbers of incompetent admin that are usually ladder-climbing “yes people,” who refuse to give meaningful consequences to  students are a large part of this madness.