School safety too complicated a subject for District 150 to grasp
My two cents: The sun source of every single one of District 150’s problems stem from the fact that the vast majority of people who can possibly afford to send their kids elsewhere does so, either by homeschooling, sending them to private school or moving out of the city.
They can tear down every single school building the district owns and replace them with palaces, but unless the district addresses the issue of student safety, the district will continue to decline. I have no faith that the current board is cable of addressing this problem.
It doesn’t take four committees to figure out what’s wrong. When student A threatens student B with boxcutters, then student A is a vicious sociopath and needs to be permanently removed from the normal, law abiding student population. Period. End of discussion.Anyone who thinks differently should be on the school board or in any position of authority. It’s a no-brainer, folks.
Sometimes I wonder if certain members of the school board and the district’s administration are secretly employed by Dunlap or private schools, since they are so intent on keeping and promoting policies that seem designed to encourage affluent and working class parents to leave the district.
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White student’s civil rights have routinely been violated for years at Geln Oak. That is why there are so few white people with children left in the neighborhood. And the kind of people that would call me racist (like Polly-in-the-ivory-tower-nonymous) are precisely useful idiots that these ghetto supremicists need to sustain their behavior.
I brought the treatmetn of White students up to Board Member Gary Allen two years ago, and his response, was “…why should he givea fuck about white students….” I kid you not. This was a discussion in his barber shop. He also expressed his loathing of Aaron Schock.
Sounds like Gary Allen should team up with Charles Barron, (http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/000708.html) since if what you state as true, they both have a loathing for whites. As for being racist, depends on what you feel about other races, myself, I am proud to be white, will not apologize for it, but also feel all races, and sexes, should be treated equal, have the same chances as anyone else. To raise or lower one over the other or feel it should be so, is racist.
If you stand for equal rights, but also feel that the same laws on the books for Hate crimes should also apply to those attacking whites, then you are not a racist.
Dist 150 is afraid to act on these problems, fear of being called racist, fear that we may see a small protest like the illegals are doing. One only has to look at the latest news of race bating, Duke University, Cynthia McKinney and Harry Belephoney to know we are in trouble. The very ones yelling there is a divide between the races, are the very ones creating this divide.
You want favoritism? Then sit back and let the Glen Oak school proposal at Glen Oak Park go thru; if you want to stop it, attend the next school board meeting andvoice your opinion. That is not a racial matter, that is a common sense matter. What does a Park, a zoo, and a school have in common? They are all underwritten by tax dollars. Stand up and be counted, let’s insist the School Board does this thing right.
That was a pretty compelling article in yesterday’s PJS. School choice — or the absolute LACK of it (“You could transfer to Kingman or maybe not…”– slowly strangles our inner city, since these folks’, and many more like them, only choice is to MOVE!
MOVING FOR EDUCATION is a ridiculous notion.
Imagine this conversation:
“I’d like to go to a better school, Mom (or Dad).”
“Sorry you can’t. We live in this part of town.”
“What does that matter??
“Well we have to go to a certain school because of where we llive.”
“Even if it stinks.”
“Well, if it stinks too bad or we’re worried for your safety, then we’ll pay ADDITIONAL MONEY to send you to a private school. That would allow us to send you to a better, safer school without MOVING.”
Factor in that private school options come with their own baggage and you quickly see why Dunlap is building and 150 is tearing down.
THE RULES NEED TO CHANGE.
homer
Where oh where is all the sign carring, protest marching, letter writing, local NAACP members when you need them? Those two children are people of color. If black is a color then so is white. Maybe the local NAACP should clean up it’s own backyard and quit blaming everyone but themselves for problems. Never see them protesting black on black crime? Never see them in the schools trying to figure out why District 150’s mostly black schools are on the State Watch list? Just because you are poor, you don’t have to be stupid. Ah, try and remove a black admisitrator for not doing her job, and boy boy do they march. As for that racist idoit Allen, don’t let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out.
The only silver lining I see to this incident is that it proves blacks, do in fact possess the power to be racist if they so choose. My ivory tower education taught that hate + power = racism. Blacks could not be racist because even if they disdained whites, they lacked the power to do anything about it. This incident proves my professors wrong.
My elementary school nieces spent the entire month of February studying MLK, and his belief that hate -especially based on skin color- was wrong. I’m wondering why Glen Oak students aren’t subject to the same teachings? If Glen Oak students are not bombarded with same anti-racist lessons from parents, church and PBS Kids that economically privileged kids are continually bombarded with, then the school needs to step up and do A LOT more anti-racist education. If Glen Oak School had horrible test scores in one specific area – say Science – the District would hire a science teacher and children would be given extra science lessons. (Like they did at Kellar.) This incident, if true, proves that children at Glen Oak have fallen behind the curve in race relations and require more and better education.
I understand the desire to boot kick the little thug out of school, but what does that solve? We are talking ELEMENTARY school here. Kindergarten thru Fourth, ages five through ten. Are you sure you want to confirm “thug status” at such a young age? Write someone off at 10 years old?! Aren’t you saying there is absolutely no hope for education or redemption if you do that? Clearly some adult has brain washed this kid to hate. Isn’t ten still young enough to an intervention?
It is interesting that this is reported on the same day as the story of two different churches, one black, one white, that came together to celebrate Easter services yesterday.
Racist Chase: Racism is wrong regardless of who commits it. – Paulina Meyers.
How about a 9 year old that pulls a knife on a teacher Paulina? What do you do with that child? (happened at Tyng) Do you say “no billy!” then he goes home to his crack mother (no father in sight) and gets another knife and comes back? The kid has to go, but where? How about a parent staffed, teacher backed center for trouble youth? Then go after the parent and hold her responsible. If that means removing the child, then so be it, the child isn’t learning anything from mom. Also, high time we locate the father and hold him responsible also. If the government can located student loan people, then they can located these fathers and make them pay also. Wouldn’t that be a nice use of some of these glorified churches that sit empty 80% of the time and look like palaces? re: City of Faith on South Adams? Heck the minister can use his BMW to pick these children up in the morning. I’m dreaming….
So Polly’s answer is to show them more love? Ignore the fact that an assalt was committed. If they get Thug Status, they deserved it. Pull them from school, place them in an alternate school, not the victims of the crime. If I am not mistaken, Peoria does have such a school over on Heading for children with emotional problems for aggression. Maybe teach them to control thier problems. The other problem here, is Peoria needs to admit that there is a race/gang/student problem, and them start to deal with it.
Building a new school to let them destroy, not care about is only throwing our money away. Throw our money at intervention…
Cruise,
To a degree, yes, we need to show them more love. If we were talking high school thugs I would be all for book kicking them out of school. I don’t think, nor did I ever write, that the assault should be ignored or go unpunished. I just don’t think expelling the young CHILD is a good answer. You are right, there are a lot of parents asleep at the wheel. If we can find and prosecute these turds posing as parents, then we should go after them. My question is why any first grader on the North side can tell you who MLK was, and that racism is wrong and Glen Oak students failed to learn this lesson. Kind of makes me wonder if they can read and write either…
I like your idea of a parent staffed, teacher backed center for troubled youth. Good luck getting the crack parents you mentioned to work there let alone educated professsionals.
Dear Polly,
A little while back you posted on your site arguing AGAINST a farrin-owned company running security at U.S. ports because them people wuz Ay-Rabs. You insinuated that, because your ancestry was so convoluted and your skin was’t pearly white that you couldn’t be rascist.
You are such a hypocrite.
Polly
I had to do some digging, since it seems Dist 150 hides the fact that they have a school for troubled youths, I knew about this since our neighbor has a child that goes there, he is pretty much a thug, about 12 years old, as well as another women who now works at D 150 had her child going there.
Guardian Angel Home School, is the name, and for some odd reason, D 150 doesn’t list it, but SchoolDigger does list it as a D 150 school. From my understanding, kids that have aggressive issues, from hitting teachers, others etc, are placed here. I have heard many times Peoria Police being called to assults of the teachers, when a student has kicked or hit them. So Peoria has a plce to “TRANSFER” the perps of this crime, not the victim. Maybe if D 150 took this approach, then other would see by example that they would be placed at the “Alternate school” and again if memory serves right, it’s not a pretty place, though I may have been in the Catholic Charities home.
Showing love is all fine, but there has to be a limit to allowing violence to happen. Allowing any violent act to go unacted upon, only enforces them to do it again. The 20 year old in our home is a prime example of allowing violence to continue. I have to deal with it day in and day out since his mother feels it’s her job to control it, and oddly it isn’t working, and she is showing love. So unless you are living it, see it firsthand, I am not sure you can quite understand the complete fallout of others around it (violence).
Polly, Guardian angel school is only for the residents of Guardian Angel home. For a while that building housed D 150’s day treatment program, which I believe has moved to Trewyn and Manual depending on age of student. Additional resources for problematic children include Greeley for those students who were expelled and Keiffer run by the Children’s Home which handles children that day treatment cant. Unfortunately the parole school has closed due to funding limits and those students on parole are now mainstreamed. There a variety of resources for these children, but it almost always stems from the parents. Many people are screaming at the schools to protect children from guns and other weapons, but I failed to see one article about why parents were allowing their children to take weapons to school. I am often in schools for work and am frequently appalled at the children’s behavior towards each other and to staff. There is simply no respect. Children scream and curse at teachers, are sent to the office and then the parents come screaming and cursing at the teachers because they were pulled away from Oprah. This behavior transcends race and socio-economic status, it is an entire subculture of Peorians who are breeding like mad and not bothering to be responsible for their prodigny.
Plain and simple…in Peoria District 150…..it’s a black problem. There I said it. Call me a pig, a racist, whatever, the truth hurts. (feels good to point a finger)
Limited funding? So where is the limited funding coming from for our new and glorious school at the Glen Oak park? Priorities at D 150 are upside down…
This is life in most of the schools in peoria today! Kids are being raised in crack homes and this is the result. Polly please do not make the mistake of thinking all 10 year olds are the same. A ten year old in a good home is a child, a ten year old who has grown up watching momma f–k on the couch so she could put together the money for her next rock, watching mama and all her boyfriends smoke said crack, probably getting f–ked by those boyfriends, or taking to the street to deal, I see these “children” every day, and the label does not fit. Pull these kids out of school and get them out of the city into a quality program in the country, away from all they have ever known and there may be some hope for many. That will not however happen so all we do is wait, will they kill, be killed, ar just make a problem of themselves for the rest of their lives. Yes and you can count on the fact that they will be having babies of their own by the time they reach all of 13 or so. This is peoria public schools student population, is it any wonder that so many have already left?
And then this:
Protesters call anti-bullying bill `vague,’ say minorities aren’t protected
By Karla D. Shores
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Education Writer
Posted April 18 2006
Human rights supporters rallied against what they called a “vague” anti-bullying bill Monday afternoon, claiming the legislation leaves the most vulnerable students, such as gays and minorities, unprotected.
Protesters said the proposed legislation, written by Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, fails to specifically ban bullying based on race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical ability or appearance. They asked constituents to demand Bogdanoff make changes to reflect minority groups.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-cbully18apr18,0,4801680.story?track=rss
And you know what is even for lack of more powerful word F’d up.I’m a senior in district 150 and planned to goto school for audio and video engineering.So any pre-experience isnt in my are because I only can afford and i am only in Woodruffs area.So what do I do?I moved to chicago and i found a perfect canadate.Thornton Township & Harlan Academy.What a way for colleges to see me.Cuz Im a shining star right!I get to both of these schools and tell me this”sorry sir but you dont have enough credits to be a senior.You’d barley make it as a sophmore.If you where to stay you would still need night & summer school.”now granted im not a A++ student.BUT!!I had around 14 credits.Meaning i wasnt short by that much.(Dist.150 standards)So not only can i not go and transfer to another public school to get me out of this districts incrediblly low standards,but i cant even get any pre-experience for the carrer im pursing.Now how does that sound?