More school violence and hijinx

(Or video cameras prevent violence--unless it's caught on tape)

Published on February 14, 2004 By Disgruntled Teacher In Misc

Here are two more school-related issues from today's local paper.

First is the fact that students who receive 5 or more discipline referrals have their names given to the local SRO (school resource officer, or police officer), and a panel is concerned about the offenders' civil rights--not the teachers', as usual.

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021404/met_14819248.shtml

Second is a follow-up about the student I've been talking about, who was beaten up on a school bus while a video camera captured the incident. The school system's superintendent now insists that video cameras should be put on all school buses in order to *prevent* the kind of violence that a video camera actually captured on tape. More great double-speak from our school administrators!

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021404/met_14819188.shtml

Comments

PoetPhilosopher

on Feb 15, 2004

Cause or effect??

News Article

Disgruntled Teacher

on Feb 15, 2004

Good question. Either way, I don't think the camera intimidated the bullies very much.

Gene Nash

on Feb 16, 2004

>> The school system's superintendent now insists that video cameras should be
>>put on all school buses in order to *prevent* the kind of violence that a video camera
>>actually captured on tape

Amazing that such irony is lost on one who should be educating children to see such irony.

This Superintendent wins this week's Clueless Award.

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