Students walk out over LACK of discipline in school

[Lauri]

 

Video: VIDEO: Middle School Students Stage Walkout
 
Students Protesting Violence On Campus Stage Walkout

POSTED: 7:53 am PST March 6, 2008
UPDATED: 9:42 am PST March 6, 2008


MARYSVILLE, Wash. -- More than 100 students staged a walkout at a Marysville middle school Wednesday, protesting what they said are too many fights and a lack of discipline at the school.

The students left class at Totem Middle School, saying the school isn't doing enough to stop violence on campus.

"A lot of kids are scared to come to school. They're scared they're going to get beat up or something bad is going to happen," said Brittany Estes, an eighth-grader who helped organize the protest. "It's really scary to be here and we didn't know how to fix anything, so we decided to do this."

School officials said they will try to figure out what's causing the increase in violence.

"(We) don't know, at this point, but we're certainly looking at more than the data to try to figure out why this might be happening," said Gail Miller with the Marysville School District.

School officials sent out a letter telling parents about the walkout and how they plan to address the issues. They said they will hold weekly breakfast meetings with the students to discuss their concerns.

They also said they are planning to discipline those who walked out. 

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[Wretched Excess]

excellent post, Lauri.  it compliments the homeschooling thread rather nicely.

how perfectly bureaucratic is that?  they are going to look at "the data" to try to determine the cause of the violence.
after that, they are going to have breakfast meetings.  and then, by god, they are going to discipline the students that walked out of class for fear of their safety.

[Lauri]

excellent post, Lauri.  it compliments the homeschooling thread rather nicely.

how perfectly bureaucratic is that?  they are going to look at "the data" to try to determine the cause of the violence.
after that, they are going to have breakfast meetings.  and then, by god, they are going to discipline the students that walked out of class for fear of their safety.

what i found interesting is, they will discipline the kids who walked out in protest - but not the kids causing violence in the school.

and most kids around here do NOT get disciplined for walking out; they get praised from their teachers..

[DixieBelle]

Oh FFS!!! I say it's time to do away with govt backed education. Ugh.

[Lauri]

Oh FFS!!! I say it's time to do away with govt backed education. Ugh.

it has been a true failure, as far as experiments go.

[Wretched Excess]

excellent post, Lauri.  it compliments the homeschooling thread rather nicely.

how perfectly bureaucratic is that?  they are going to look at "the data" to try to determine the cause of the violence.
after that, they are going to have breakfast meetings.  and then, by god, they are going to discipline the students that walked out of class for fear of their safety.

what i found interesting is, they will discipline the kids who walked out in protest - but not the kids causing violence in the school.

and most kids around here do NOT get disciplined for walking out; they get praised from their teachers..

that tells you what they consider an actual "problem" to be . . . ya know?  the comparison to a jail break really can't be dismissed.

[Lauri]

excellent post, Lauri.  it compliments the homeschooling thread rather nicely.

how perfectly bureaucratic is that?  they are going to look at "the data" to try to determine the cause of the violence.
after that, they are going to have breakfast meetings.  and then, by god, they are going to discipline the students that walked out of class for fear of their safety.

what i found interesting is, they will discipline the kids who walked out in protest - but not the kids causing violence in the school.

and most kids around here do NOT get disciplined for walking out; they get praised from their teachers..

that tells you what they consider an actual "problem" to be . . . ya know?  the comparison to a jail break really can't be dismissed.

Marysville, where this took place, had a teacher walk out a few years ago that made national headlines. The teachers kept the kids out of school for 50something days. It wreaked havoc on the local economy and the strike was just absurd; on the news the picketing teachers were saying, "this is all for the kids!"

and then when the public found out about the contract negotiations, it was an outrage all over again. they all got raises, the kids got nothing and when summer rolled around, those kids were still in school and the teachers were bitching about not getting overtime pay!

but the union has the states by the cojones. there isnt a damn thing we can do about it.