Michelle's Opinion
First and foremost, I'd like to commend the parents who chose this program for their children, and for the Indianapolis Public School District for offering this program. This is why I think it's terrific and it should be used on ALL schools.
I grew up in a mid-sized town in Wisconsin. The elementary school I attended from K-5 was a PUBLIC school. Nowadays people tend to believe that public schools aren't as good. But my school was run by complete nazis. Everyone had to be absolutely quiet in the halls, we walked in lines styled after the military. We weren't even allowed to talk in the lunchroom.
Our only chance for self-expression was during recess. But even that had strict rules. This woman named Mrs. Carriello would walk up and down the lunch room tables and scream, "NO TALKING IN THE LUNCHROOM!". If you were ever caught talking you were forced to pick up all the garbage and even the CRUMBS off the entire floor with your bare fingers. In order to leave the lunchroom for recess, you had to raise your hand so Mrs. Carriello could check to see if you ate your entire lunch. We would stuff food into our milk cartons, but she'd find those, too. Guess what? No recess for you.
There was even paddling at the time. Our prinicpal would walk up and down the lunchroom and slam the fraternity sized paddle and scare the crap out of us.
I hated it at the time, but looking back, I think it was a good thing. Boundaries were set, and the kids knew this was serious business and had serious consequences.
Why can't all schools enforce stricter policies? Why are parents not getting involved and disciplining them as well?! I remember if I got in trouble at school, I'd get it at home as well. I'm on 31, and I'm not some old mean lady, but I think things should revert to the way they used to be.
It will be my life's quest trying to figure out where our society went wrong. It's never just one factor...too many to count and too hard to find a definitive answer.
I grew up in a mid-sized town in Wisconsin. The elementary school I attended from K-5 was a PUBLIC school. Nowadays people tend to believe that public schools aren't as good. But my school was run by complete nazis. Everyone had to be absolutely quiet in the halls, we walked in lines styled after the military. We weren't even allowed to talk in the lunchroom.
Our only chance for self-expression was during recess. But even that had strict rules. This woman named Mrs. Carriello would walk up and down the lunch room tables and scream, "NO TALKING IN THE LUNCHROOM!". If you were ever caught talking you were forced to pick up all the garbage and even the CRUMBS off the entire floor with your bare fingers. In order to leave the lunchroom for recess, you had to raise your hand so Mrs. Carriello could check to see if you ate your entire lunch. We would stuff food into our milk cartons, but she'd find those, too. Guess what? No recess for you.
There was even paddling at the time. Our prinicpal would walk up and down the lunchroom and slam the fraternity sized paddle and scare the crap out of us.
I hated it at the time, but looking back, I think it was a good thing. Boundaries were set, and the kids knew this was serious business and had serious consequences.
Why can't all schools enforce stricter policies? Why are parents not getting involved and disciplining them as well?! I remember if I got in trouble at school, I'd get it at home as well. I'm on 31, and I'm not some old mean lady, but I think things should revert to the way they used to be.
It will be my life's quest trying to figure out where our society went wrong. It's never just one factor...too many to count and too hard to find a definitive answer.
KIDS GET FIRST TASTE OF SCHOOL RULES
IPS welcomes class of 220 to an academy designed to assist disruptive students before they're beyond help.
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Excerpts taken from The Indianapolis Star
August 19, 2005
August 19, 2005
Thursday morning at Edgar Evans Academy may have been the grimmest back-to-school in Indianapolis. The minute students stepped off the buses, they got a taste of life at the new all-boys academy for disruptive fourth- and fifth-graders.
The 220 boys were singled out to attend Edgar Evans. These boys are considered to have the worst disciplinary records in the district, with some having as many as 20 suspensions in a single year.
So there were several sullen faces as students slouched through the doors.
HEY! A NEW CONCEPT!
Follow directions
Walk quietly, in single file
and three floor-tile squares out from the wall
No unruliness in hallways
Break the rules and face severe consequences
Walk quietly, in single file
and three floor-tile squares out from the wall
No unruliness in hallways
Break the rules and face severe consequences
Indianapolis Public Schools officials say surrounding these boys with tough love is the key to sparking better behavior and reconnecting them to classroom success. "This program is here to help you be the best you can be...we're not doing this to you. We're doing this for you." said, new IPS Superintendent Eugene White.
Although it isn't warmly welcomed by the boys, the IPS School Board likes it so much that members vowed this week to open a similar academy for girls next year.
White and supporters call the school an early-intervention program meant to reach troubled boys before they are beyond saving. Discipline will be a prominent theme, along with citizenship and academics.
A few parents were given the option of keeping their children out of the alternative program.
Although it isn't warmly welcomed by the boys, the IPS School Board likes it so much that members vowed this week to open a similar academy for girls next year.
White and supporters call the school an early-intervention program meant to reach troubled boys before they are beyond saving. Discipline will be a prominent theme, along with citizenship and academics.
A few parents were given the option of keeping their children out of the alternative program.
However, only 11 of the 48 parents given that option chose it, school officials said.
Michelle's Final Thought
What kind of pathetic degenerates are these people? They are obviously too selfish and self-absorbed to bother...they don't deserve to be parents. Take their kids away and see what they do then!
As I've always said, "there's always more of 'them' then there are of 'us' "
As I've always said, "there's always more of 'them' then there are of 'us' "
1 comment:
Right on bro! Too many people love to sue...and the attorneys certainly aren't turning them away. It's a social sickness and it has to stop. How much more are we letting kids cross the line? It is inconceivable to me the way I see kids disrepect their parents in public, or tell their teacher to "F*CK off!"
Lee, I agree that the teachers need to be role models, but if the parents don't care and don't get involved, then who's fault is it? A teacher can only do so much. They can't go home with their students and make sure they do their homework and not sit and play video games until 11:00 p.m.
Parents need to take responsibility for the role that they have chosen...parenthood. Do you know of anyone who would openly admit they are a failure? Of course not. Not normal people, anyway.
Well, it seems to me that certain parents don't mind being a failure for the whole world to see. They just live on their merry way and continue to plant their seed for future failures that will eventually damper society. And guess what...we have to deal with the consequences.
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