'Painful Lessons': Abuse At Chicago Schools

[thundley4]

Hundreds Of Kids Beaten, Whipped, Even Choked By Teachers, Coaches

Hundreds of students have allegedly been beaten by teachers, coaches and staff at Chicago Public Schools. 2 Investigator Dave Savini continues his ongoing investigation involving the illegal use corporal punishment.

Treveon Martin, 10, is afraid of a teacher at his school.
"I've seen him hit five of them in the classroom," Martin said.
Martin says he and others have been hit, grabbed and even struck with a belt.
"He's threatened almost all the kids in his classroom," Martin said.

He says it happened at Robert Emmet Academy in November but a Chicago Public School investigator didn't talk to him until last week - 70 days after the case was reported, and not until after we started asking questions.

"He holded my arms and he picked my body up, and then he just slammed me on the desk," Martin said.

Chicago , My Kind Of Town.

Treveon Martin, 10, is one of at least 818 Chicago Public School students, since 2003, to allege being battered by a teacher or other staff member.

Nice to know that a certain former "community organizer" had such a positive effect on the schools he helped.   

[AllosaursRus]

What's the big deal? When I went to school this was standard practice. It had the support of the parents too!

We got the same at home. If you ****ed up, you paid dearly for it.

In my opinion this is what our schools are lacking, especially inner city schools! Kids get away with murder nowadays. They know teachers' hands are tied!

[bijou]

I wonder who has been in charge of Chicago's schools?

Barack Obama's choice for education secretary, Chicago school chief Arne (Ar-NEE) Duncan, is getting a warm welcome from most factions of the education community. He's been, in many ways, an unconventional leader willing to find creative solutions to some of public education's oldest dilemmas, including school attendance and dropout rates.  ...

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1863062_1863058_1867011,00.html

[thundley4]

What's the big deal? When I went to school this was standard practice. It had the support of the parents too!

We got the same at home. If you ****ed up, you paid dearly for it.

In my opinion this is what our schools are lacking, especially inner city schools! Kids get away with murder nowadays. They know teachers' hands are tied!

Corporal punishment , if limited to swats would be fine. I got my share of those, but some of what's described goes far beyond that.  Granted some of the students should be in juvenile detention instead of school .

[jinxmchue]

Calling Chicago a cesspool is an insult to cesspools.