Comments on: School safety too complicated a subject for District 150 to grasp

By: Reginald Dortch

Reginald Dortch — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:55:57 +0000

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?

By: Vonster

Vonster — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:42:12 +0000

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

By: ghetto resident

ghetto resident — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:11:56 +0000

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?

By: Cruise Control

Cruise Control — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:37:09 +0000

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…

By: Emtronics

Emtronics — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:03:42 +0000

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)

By: neighborhood leader

neighborhood leader — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:29:05 +0000

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.

By: Cruise Control

Cruise Control — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:21:21 +0000

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).