Cooper Parents Complaining Again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My takeaway from this dumpster fire of a policy is that Cooper has a bullying problem that they don't want to address. Telling kids to just opt-out of a situation where the school knows they have had bullying problems before instead of, you know, addressing the bullying, is the problem.

Ding, ding, ding!

The bullying is not punished at Cooper and victims are silenced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s probably time for the School Board to come up with new policies on outside speakers and when student attendance may be compulsory, opt-out, or opt-in. It seems like the Cooper administration was trying to do the right thing, but it’s leaving itself open to accusations of employing a double-standard. Other speakers who might like to share how they or their relatives have been persecuted in the past or are being brutally slaughtered now likely would not be treated so favorably.

Why? The school and the admin are fine. There's no double standard. No policy will prevent ignorant idiots from whining about it.

Tell Adele Scalia and Nick Minock. They were the ones to go after the Cooper leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why right-wing people are upset about people being able to opt out. I can see why this topic could be upsetting for any student, and anyone should be allowed to opt-out.

If I find slavery upsetting, should I be able to opt out of American history before 1865?
If I find lynch!ngs upsetting, should I be able to opt out of the unit on Civil Rights?

I wish the kid who used what he learned during Black History month to bully my kid had opted out. So many parents are raising little cretins. It’s shocking. I feel for any parent who feels the need to opt their Jewish kids out of attending as a means to sheiks them against the inevitable bullying.

[Anonymous]

Cooper just handles things poorly. Everything seems brushed over and hidden. Parents care about their kids and yes crazy as it may seem they want to know their child is safe.

They want to know what is being put in place when their kids go to school. WE have no answers and a lot of questions. It's not a political statement it's a parent feeling and natural instinct to protect their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cooper just handles things poorly. Everything seems brushed over and hidden. Parents care about their kids and yes crazy as it may seem they want to know their child is safe.

They want to know what is being put in place when their kids go to school. WE have no answers and a lot of questions. It's not a political statement it's a parent feeling and natural instinct to protect their kids.

Did you just copy a post you made in the thread about the shooting of a Westfield student and change “Westfield” to “Cooper”? Lazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why right-wing people are upset about people being able to opt out. I can see why this topic could be upsetting for any student, and anyone should be allowed to opt-out.

If I find slavery upsetting, should I be able to opt out of American history before 1865?
If I find lynch!ngs upsetting, should I be able to opt out of the unit on Civil Rights?

I wish the kid who used what he learned during Black History month to bully my kid had opted out. So many parents are raising little cretins. It’s shocking. I feel for any parent who feels the need to opt their Jewish kids out of attending as a means to sheiks them against the inevitable bullying.

I am aware of disturbing instances of chronic teasing at Cooper of a disabled student. Cooper doesn’t have any units on the history of the ADA or speakers that I am aware of. These lessons about different groups do not cause the cruelty, it’s just how kids are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why right-wing people are upset about people being able to opt out. I can see why this topic could be upsetting for any student, and anyone should be allowed to opt-out.

If I find slavery upsetting, should I be able to opt out of American history before 1865?
If I find lynch!ngs upsetting, should I be able to opt out of the unit on Civil Rights?

I wish the kid who used what he learned during Black History month to bully my kid had opted out. So many parents are raising little cretins. It’s shocking. I feel for any parent who feels the need to opt their Jewish kids out of attending as a means to sheiks them against the inevitable bullying.

I am aware of disturbing instances of chronic teasing at Cooper of a disabled student. Cooper doesn’t have any units on the history of the ADA or speakers that I am aware of. These lessons about different groups do not cause the cruelty, it’s just how kids are.

if you don’t think parents at home complaining about SEL, and using as just another reason to hang on about equity in education, as it extends to he’s even kids with disabilities then you just are t thinking it through.

My DC isn’t being raised in a home that has a scarcity mindset. We don’t teach that the tent isn’t big enough to welcome and accommodate people who are not like us because that mindset isn’t a part of my culture beliefs.

The bullying starts at home and it spreads into school. One group bullies another, it goes unaddressed. Then another group pushes on another and around and around it goes. Dog rat dog is supported at home and it supported at school.

[Anonymous]

Sigh~~~~~~~
When can our schools focus on teaching students math , reading, writing and science instead of being the rope of the politics tug war.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sigh~~~~~~~
When can our schools focus on teaching students math , reading, writing and science instead of being the rope of the politics tug war.

History is a core subject and the Holocaust is part of the curriculum, so not sure what you are complaining about here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh~~~~~~~
When can our schools focus on teaching students math , reading, writing and science instead of being the rope of the politics tug war.

History is a core subject and the Holocaust is part of the curriculum, so not sure what you are complaining about here.

Sorry for omitting history. My 8th grader's history teacher is boring, the history class is boring. The 3rd quarter history scores have not been posted yet. The History class grading is unfair and unreasonable. I kinda drop my expectation about school history class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why right-wing people are upset about people being able to opt out. I can see why this topic could be upsetting for any student, and anyone should be allowed to opt-out.

If I find slavery upsetting, should I be able to opt out of American history before 1865?
If I find lynch!ngs upsetting, should I be able to opt out of the unit on Civil Rights?

I wish the kid who used what he learned during Black History month to bully my kid had opted out. So many parents are raising little cretins. It’s shocking. I feel for any parent who feels the need to opt their Jewish kids out of attending as a means to sheiks them against the inevitable bullying.

I am aware of disturbing instances of chronic teasing at Cooper of a disabled student. Cooper doesn’t have any units on the history of the ADA or speakers that I am aware of. These lessons about different groups do not cause the cruelty, it’s just how kids are.

if you don’t think parents at home complaining about SEL, and using as just another reason to hang on about equity in education, as it extends to he’s even kids with disabilities then you just are t thinking it through.

My DC isn’t being raised in a home that has a scarcity mindset. We don’t teach that the tent isn’t big enough to welcome and accommodate people who are not like us because that mindset isn’t a part of my culture beliefs.

The bullying starts at home and it spreads into school. One group bullies another, it goes unaddressed. Then another group pushes on another and around and around it goes. Dog rat dog is supported at home and it supported at school.

If you people think bullying doesn’t occur at every single middle school across the country, you are quite mistaken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sigh~~~~~~~
When can our schools focus on teaching students math , reading, writing and science instead of being the rope of the politics tug war.

Why are you excluding history and social studies from school's "focus"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh~~~~~~~
When can our schools focus on teaching students math , reading, writing and science instead of being the rope of the politics tug war.

History is a core subject and the Holocaust is part of the curriculum, so not sure what you are complaining about here.

School should only teach irrelevant uncontroversial truths.

[Anonymous]

Disappointed to read this. Our kids were at Cooper less than 10 years ago and it was a great environment. The principal at that time was fantastic. I believe the change occurred about 5-6 years back when the long time principal retired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh~~~~~~~
When can our schools focus on teaching students math , reading, writing and science instead of being the rope of the politics tug war.

History is a core subject and the Holocaust is part of the curriculum, so not sure what you are complaining about here.

School should only teach irrelevant uncontroversial truths.

1 zillion = The number of times I was told in middle school and high school that "you're going to need this math and science in the real world"
Approx. 20 = The number of times I have actually used that math and science in the real world

Meanwhile, history and social science is out here being part of my daily "real world" life.

Math and science are important and need to be taught. But, seriously, people need to stop acting like history isn't real-world-applicable or is somehow less-than other subjects. We need it all.