Deal teacher hit by kid
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Anonymous
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The City Council is the group that passed the absurd no expulsions, no suspensions law.
While DCPS has gone off the deep end with distorted, ineffectual ideas about "restorative justice," the lax discipline is actually codified by the city. Contact your Councilmember and the Mayor to complain. (And blame former-CM David Grasso for spearheading this ridiculousness.) |
Anonymous
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I feel like there are enough parents concerned about these issues that they need to start getting the attention of Deal LSAT and city council. Any ideas on how best to do that without being dismissed as not caring about equity?
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Anonymous
Anyone ? |
Anonymous
| Students need to walk out and demand safe learning spaces |
Anonymous
I think the size of the school means that the kids aren't aware of more than a tiny bit of what goes on in their grade at-large. There are 25+ homerooms per grade. My daughter (7th grade and an exceptionally social kid) had no idea that a kid hit a teacher yesterday. |
Anonymous
Sounds like the teacher didn't press charges? Schools often don't respond until the optics change when the criminal justice system becomes involved. |
Anonymous
The teacher needs the support of admin to take that action. Risking bad relations with your principal is a tough thing to do. |
Anonymous
| The first step admin takes when a student assaults a teacher is to interrogate the teacher and demand to know, "What did you do to provoke this?" WTU is pretty toothless. Another behavior prevalent at Deal is for students to accuse teachers of being racist. I retired early. It's just not worth it to work in that environment. |
Anonymous
Omg what!! |
Anonymous
| This is total insanity. That poor teacher. I hope she goes to the union and demands they protect her. Is that possible? If the council doesn't see how their stupid policies are hurting teachers and students, maybe some collective bargaining will open their eyes. |
Anonymous
A retaliation claim is about the easiest and most lucrative employment claim you can make. Just make sure you complain about safety to your principal in writing as well as pressing charges |
Anonymous
| The law absolutely allows kids to be suspended. EOTP MS suspend kids all the time. What DC also needs is a faster pathway to alternative schools for kids who engage in violence repeatedly. |
Anonymous
| I have a 7th grader as well and Dr. Cummings called me last week to say he was suspending my child for a day because he had a 2 inch plastic water gun. I told him I was planning and did send my child to school the next day. But a kid hits a teacher/curses, that is all fine. |
Anonymous
| Kids at our ES serve both in-school and out-of-school suspensions and DCPS actually tracks the number/percentage of suspensions at schools as one of their metrics, so I have no idea what "law" the PP is referring to that prohibits this. |
Anonymous
Wow. Ballsy! |