Food fight! Parents have egg on their face in this one
I thought out-0f-control food fights were the stuff of TV movies, but apparently they happen – and too often at Berkmar High School in Lilburn. The persistence of food fights led frustrated administrators to close the school cafeteria this week.
Principal Ken Johnson sent a letter to parents stating, “We have had a number of food-throwing incidents in the cafeteria in the last few weeks, and as a result, students will be served lunch in their 5th-period classrooms until this Friday. All students will have the option to receive a balanced meal, just as they do when we serve lunch in the cafeteria, only with a reduced number of choices.”
Johnson noted that staff members monitor lunch periods and have identified and disciplined a few students for throwing food.
This is a parent problem, not a school problem. If you have raised a kid self-centered and arrogant enough to ignore teachers and cafeteria staff and throw food to the point the cafeteria has to be closed, I think you and your children need family therapy soon. Someone call Dr. Phil.
No school should have to shut down its cafeteria because a few lunkheads think it’s funny to throw food. (As the granddaughter of an Italian immigrant grocer who never gave up on a single green bean – it went into a family stew if it was too bruised to sell — I also hate to see food wasted.)
Come on parents. Let’s do our job and discipline our kids. This is embarrassing.
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julia
February 25th, 2010
4:34 pm
You guys think this is an issue, go read momiana, there is a woman that proudly announces her lovely family farts and burps at the dinner table…
BC
February 25th, 2010
4:37 pm
Get rid of Time Out and Let’s go back to Dad’s Belt Across your Butt. Sounds like these children, and they are still children, need it big time!!!
Maureen Downey
February 25th, 2010
4:38 pm
@julia, That can’t be Theresa. I used to sit near her here at the AJC and she never burped. Maureen
julia
February 25th, 2010
4:39 pm
parents want to be the BFF instead of a parent
julia
February 25th, 2010
4:40 pm
Maureen, Theresa posted the blog but but mother was Jessie’s Girl…. we all were horrified.
Name (required)
February 25th, 2010
4:41 pm
They should consider themselves lucky. With the zero-tolerance crap going on all over the country, they should consider themselves lucky they don’t have National Guard troops monitoring their lunches and disobedient students marched off in handcuffs and charged with domestic mealtime terrorism.
Amanda
February 25th, 2010
4:48 pm
Just shows how spoiled kids are. Wasting food is nothing to them – let’s ship them to Haiti . Acting inappropriately is no big deal – mom and dead will defend us. Authority means nothing – same kids probably don’t respect their parents so why should they respect the school or their classmates. Let some of these morons throw food in an employee cafeteria at their work place and see how they would feel to be fired and not get unemployment for being fired with cause. Time to grow up!
ACC 12 Booster
February 25th, 2010
4:51 pm
Teachers should get ALOT of credit. If a teacher continues to show up and do their job in the face of a consistent threat of violence or possible bodily harm. In almost all school districts teachers, administrators and staff are told not to intervene in fights, but most do anyway because who could just stand there and watch while a student is literally almost getting killed during a fight. I had alot of great teachers especially when I got to high school that continued to show up and do the best that they could to keep kids’ attention and teach despite all of the numerous challenges which says alot about the character of most of the people who do that job. Seeing firsthand what teachers have to deal with from crazy parents to crazy students to all of the numerous out-of-school distractions that teachers have to compete with to keep childrens’ attention on schoolwork, I can honestly say that teachers DON’T GET PAID ANYWHERE NEAR ENOUGH MONEY for the loads of crap that they have to deal daily, especially teachers in public schools, or urban public schools.
Sarah
February 25th, 2010
4:56 pm
I go to Berkmar High School, I’m a sophomore, and I had lunch during these food fights. The food fights come from the same area of the lunch room everyday. So personally, it is just a group of stupid kids who like to throw food. For all the comments about the socioeconomic involvement in these fights…umm does it look like high schoolers really care? Race had nothing to do with it as well. Our school is one of the most diverse in the county (speaking as a white girl, I love this school. I’d hate to go to a school full of cookie cutter white brats) Our school has not always had food fights, just these past couple weeks. One thing that did happen last Friday was a physical fight in the cafeteria that sent one student to the hospital (he is now 70% blind in his left eye and has broken ribs) and one in jail for attempted murder. So yes, the food fights lead to tension and outbursts of violent acts. So the principal made a good decision in putting us on class lunches. It will only last a week though, and then the principal will talk with a group of student representatives in discussing how to prevent future problems.
Our school is fine, not a really big deal. So yeah, stop making a big deal out of it. You weren’t there and you don’t go to the school. Rich or poor, we have amazing students that go to this school.
-Sarah Stalsworth
Maureen Downey
February 25th, 2010
5:20 pm
Sarah, Thanks for the information. And I admire your willingness to use your name – something most adult posters here will not do. I think the tenor of many debates would change if people had to stand by their statements.
Maureen Downey
Philosopher
February 25th, 2010
5:25 pm
Oh, for Pete’s sake…can we overreact, or what?! Are these kids throwing food or shooting each other?! It is never the fault of all the kids or of all the parents. I’ve had kids in public school for 25 years and it’s the same over and over…punish and blame everyone a for what a few do. Sick of it!!! The kids who are throwing food should be removed, disciplined and suspended if necessary and THEY should be cleaning up every last bit of the mess.. SOMEBODY ought to have some control over the situation and SOME adult ought to be watching. But STOP with the every-single-chance-you get, ripping up parents!! I am SICK of it. I don’t care what you jaded, burnt outs say, MOST parents are responsible, caring, and try their best to raise their kids right. I say fire ALL teachers and bring in some with some love of the profession, some understanding of age-specific behaviors and with plans for communication and discipline other than to beat the hell out of the kid or throw up their hands and scream about parents if they are not allowed to!!!! FED UP!!
catlady
February 25th, 2010
5:36 pm
At my elementary school when kids throw food, it is almost always kids on free lunch because 70% of the kids are on free lunch.
Ms.Downey, i think it is particularly damning that this thing is a regular occurence. So the principal’s way of “handling” the problem has been ineffective, to say the least.
I agree that it is time for the pendulum to swing back. It wouldn’t take too much expelling students to get the message across, and improve the schools both by getting rid of troublemakers and by parents making it clear to their kids that they have higher expectations of their behavior. At any rate, taxpayers and parents of well-behaved kids have the power to DEMAND better from their administrators and the lawmakers.
We have seen that people can rise to higher standards/expectations. These miscreants ARE human. Expect them to act like it.
catlady
February 25th, 2010
5:40 pm
Poor Sarah seems to have no idea that the behavior she describes is NOT normal.
Philosopher
February 25th, 2010
5:42 pm
Maureen, I object to your assumption that the parents should have egg on their faces here. Yes, they should be angry with their kids…but one can raise 2 kids, try their best, and one will act out while the other is an angel. Kids do things with their peers that are not right and are diametrically opposed to how they are raised. Only parents who truly didn’t try to teach their kids manners (are you going to be judge of that?), or who object to disciplinary action against their INVOLVED child should have egg on their faces in this case. Yhe KIDS are responsible for their own actions and the parents are responsible for disciplining them.
catlady
February 25th, 2010
5:48 pm
My daughter was in high school in Athens about 15 years ago. She was taking an AP class and took a tape recorder to tape the review sessions. She was listening to the tape, and as I passed through the room I heard this terrible screaming and cussing and the sound of something slamming against something else in the background. I asked her what on Earth it was, and SHE HAD NOT REALLY NOTICED IT! When she thought about it, she remember that someone in the class next door had gone ballistic and had a fit and cussed the teacher and had thrown a desk against the wall in the hall. IT WAS SUCH A TYPICAL SITUATION IT HAD NOT SEEMED WORTH BEING CONCERNED ABOUT IT! It was at that point I knew the place was as much a zoo as I had observed on my visits there, and that good students just took for granted that that was how it was.
Philosopher
February 25th, 2010
6:00 pm
Sorry- THE kids
Knows Better
February 25th, 2010
6:19 pm
Parent and Bad Karma what did I say that would lead you to believe that I don’t know where Berkmar is? I work in Lilburn. I am extremely familiar with the area and the school. There are some great kids that go there and there are some truly wonderful teachers that teach there. Unfortunately there is also an unattractive element that is not always dealt with in a strict enough manner by the administration.
Will T
February 25th, 2010
6:26 pm
@Sarah – You are my hero! Thank you for clearing this up for most of the people with the negative and distorted postings here. This can and does happen in many places and, as Maureen stated to me in her earlier response, it usually goes unnoticed except in the movies. I certaninly hope that the principal inclides you as one of the student leaders.
@Maureen – I didn’t understand your response to me. Probably because I was not being critical toward you. I follow the blog and usually I won’t post becsue of the tenor of most of the posters. They always want to seem to turn everything into a racial discussion. Obviously, this and most of the blog postings have nothing to do with race.
julia
February 25th, 2010
6:31 pm
Knows Better that goes to every cotton picken school out there.. even the hoity toity private schools.
Marie
February 25th, 2010
6:41 pm
I’m a junior at Berkmar High School and I’m very disappointed in the few students that caused an entire school’s name to be sullied. Berkmar is a wonderful school and simply because of a few mistakes we’re being attacked. Berkmar won the CollegeBoard Inspiration Award for 2008, won the Readers Rally for 2010, made it to state in Wrestling, won best chorus in Gwinnett County, and is going to state for Basketball. Barely anyone has recognized any of these great accomplishments. Instead everyone pays attention to the few mistakes and inflates them. I love Berkmar it is a wonderful school with a great AP program and wonderful teachers. Mr.Johnson (the principle) was so disappointed that a few students basically screwed us all over that today he had a meeting with the leaders of the school.
These leaders were club officers, sports captains, and the top students of each class. Along with Mr.Johnson and one of the board members of the Gwinnett County Public school board we all sat down and talked about the issue at hand. We came up with great ideas to not just stop meaningless food fights, but increase overall school involvement and encourage the students to understand what a great school Berkmar is. People are so negative towards Berkmar the some of the school’s own students believe the negativity, because we as leaders of the school have not broadcasted our achievements well enough. But through the positive encouragement of Mr.Johnson and the board member (her name is lost to me) we have been encouraged to work even harder as representatives of our school.
Fights happen everywhere and little things like food fights happen just as frequently. It surprises that everyone seems to forget that. Although I think the food fight was the most self-centered thing teenagers could do; it happens. The fact that racially ignorant people still exist is just as pathetic. Berkmar’s diversity makes Berkmar, Berkmar. I can’t imagine myself going anywhere else and especially not somewhere with students taught idiotic racist views.
student
February 25th, 2010
6:50 pm
what do ya people care about wat goes on in this skol? actin like ya werent teens once(unless ur that old and dont remeber) cn ya just mind ur own bussiness? and let us be?!?!?
student
February 25th, 2010
6:52 pm
okay ya cn say watever ya want 2 say bt this “comments” are not goin 2 change us so SHUT UP and mind ur own buisness!!
Marie
February 25th, 2010
7:06 pm
student
Is one of the examples of the few that makes us get a certain image.
Could you try and type probably? At least try to make some sense….Ever thought that maybe change is good? And we’re a public school or business is “public”.
Marie
February 25th, 2010
7:07 pm
Heh meant properly excuses
Old School
February 25th, 2010
7:36 pm
It is very interesting that when trouble arises at a school and the principal gathers a group of students to discuss the problem and develop possible solutions, it is always the good kids who have never instigated or participated the kinds of actions being discussed. Why not a random cross-section? Why not a group that includes some of the guilty or at least some of their friends?
Over the years I’ve found that getting the troublemaker to talk to me and help me figure out a way to end the problem or at least change the circumstances that provoke him or her to the wrong action really works most of the time. I’ve had to refer only a handful of students to the administration over the past 36 years and many of those were simply chronic tardies.
I realize my approach might not work on a school-wide scale but maybe someone could try. Make the problem kids part of the solution.
Old School
February 25th, 2010
7:39 pm
By the way, I’m also for having the police pick up troublemakers and drop them off at their parents’ workplaces. A couple of times doing that and the boss will likely “suggest” the parents start applying a little discipline.
Limbaugh is Fat
February 25th, 2010
7:43 pm
Sorry my name probably offends you, Maureen, since you most likely have sexual fantasies about Limbaugh, but half of these posts reveal Georgia’s primary issues–people in this state hate the poor and disadvantaged. If you have never been poor, then you have no idea what the home life of these kids is like. Most likely, rules are not strictly enforced and “family night” is nonexistent. Yes, it’s easy to point at the poor and blame them for society’s problems, but these problems continue to exist. So now what, geniuses? Not everyone is raised like Beaver Cleaver. Sorry I talked about your boyfriend, Maureen. You could do better.
Fire the entire staff
February 25th, 2010
7:51 pm
Where is Arne Duncan? He can solve this in a Chcago minute… Fire the entire teaching staff!
Or every teacher needs to work an extra hour per day and 2 Saturdays per month on cafeteria etiquette—-The teachers are the single most important people in a child’s education.
Parents: do not get involved. The teacher will take care of this or we will fire them…
OK–Let’s see the “data” on food fights…
Philosopher
February 25th, 2010
8:51 pm
adolescent sarcasm will solve no problems.
d
February 25th, 2010
9:00 pm
The same thing happened at GIVE West a few years ago — cafeteria shut down because of behavior. Didn’t hear anyone complaining when it happened there.
Maureen Downey
February 25th, 2010
9:03 pm
Willl T, I understood what you were saying. I was adding to your observations as I agree that race is too present here. A co-worker and I were talking about this and he noted that race was an issue in his former state, Arizona, in many blog postings, but that it did not come up in every issue as it does here. He noted that race comes up in sports blogs all the time here and rarely did so in Arizona.
Maureen
North GA H.S. Math Teacher
February 25th, 2010
9:16 pm
5% of the students causing trouble for the entire school. Remove the cronic troublemakers and focus on the students who want an education. The 400 strikes and your out program just doesn’t work. If they can’t follow the rules and work to receive their free education, then remove them and do not allow them to receive any public assistance.
Competitive
February 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
To make a larger point, it is ridiculous when people howl about the innocent majority being punished for the actions of a minority of students. In all aspects of life, the actions of the delinquent few punish the innocent.
The message we all, teachers, parents, etc., need to teach is that you can’t sit by idly while people commit egregious acts against society. We have to try to lead people to do the right things, and be willing to testify against those who still choose to do wrong.
The “don’t snitch” concept plays a major role in this. I taught at Sweetwater Middle for 8 years, a feeder school to Berkmar. I know many of these kids and have had many discussions with them about the proper way to react to those who you see breaking the rules, especially in situations that could cause injury to others. Almost unanimously, they believe it is wrong to identify and provide evidence against others, even if that person has hurt or killed another. These beliefs are shared across all racial, cultural, achievement, and socioeconomic lines.
There are plenty of students who know exactly who did what, but they are unwilling to stand up to those people as a witness. Therefore, the educators have no choice but to punish the group. Stand up and retake your school, or suffer from the punishments inflicted by both the delinquents and the authorities in the school.
Will T
February 25th, 2010
10:31 pm
@Maureen – whew, I was worried! Thank you for the clarification. I do appreciate the work you try to do here. Everyone is talking about the kids, but the racial comments in these blogs truly deflect from meaningful conversations. I wish the posters would grow up and begin totake the same level of responsibility they want the “socio-economically deprived and racially disadvantaged” kids to.
lstudentl
February 25th, 2010
10:56 pm
As noted earlier by Marie, it’s quite depressing the Berkmar is being attacked and recognized for these mistakes. Mistakes made by a few students. It’s disappointing that instead of being recognized for the great academic achievements (also stated earlier by Marie), Berkmar is being recognized by the few mistakes in the last couple of weeks. I do agree what happened was horrible, food fights and a student getting seriously hurt during lunch, and the school actions in prevent these mistakes from ever happening (ex: the bag lunches, I personally mind it). Though those food fights and fight were caused by a few students, a few student’s decisions now represent our school. Students that put themselves (no offense to the student who got hurt, but I have heard the true story of what caused the fight) in dangerous situations and made horrible decisions. These student’s don’t even make 5% of our school, and now Berkmar is being recognized by these students who made horrible, dangerous (not only to them but to everyone around them) decisions. It’s very disappointing how Berkmar, a great school with one of the best AP courses, is being recognized and judged by these few mistakes.
In my opinion: The school should not be blamed, the school has done everything to keep Berkmar safe. Even after these accidents, I still do feel safe and comfortable returning to the school for the rest of the days left in the school year. The students should be blamed for their own stupid decisions, the school and parents should not be the scapegoat to these student’s mistakes. Although parents do play a role in a child’s life, the students should be blamed for their own mistakes. These students are not children anymore, they make their own decisions. Their parents have raised them, and now it’s for them to make their decisions in life. We are high school students, we should know better now. (I now understand why there is middle school. The passage to understanding and learning how to make our own decisions) Although still under supervision of adults, high schools understand how to make their own decisions and the effects of them. As students graduate from high school they have officially entered the real world. Not where they learn to make their own decisions, but where their decisions now play an even more major role than before. Student’s don’t have their parents following them everywhere (last thing I want. haha), because they aren’t children anymore, thus the decisions they make are based on their own individual thought. I do respect were you are coming from Maureen, but as stated earlier, parents and the school should not be the scapegoat to the students’ horrible and disastrous decisions.
(In advance, sorry for any grammatical errors found in my comment. Haha)
Elizabeth
February 26th, 2010
8:21 am
It is amazing to me that so many people think this is no big deal. It is because it is an example of what teachers go through every day. My child would never have been involved in food fight or any other kind of fight because she knows what would happen when I got the telephone call. Food fights are serious business, people, because they mean that people are
1. out of control and
2. behaving in a way that could cause harm or injury to others ( more about this in a minute)
3. refusing to follow rules and standards set by adults
I was a teacher in a high school in which a food fight occurred. A child on crutches trying to get her lunch slipped and fell on some slippery food and hit her head on the floor hard enough to bleed and to have the paramedics called. Another student was hit in the eye with a fork and narrowly missed serious damange.
It is difficult in a large lunchrom to immediately single out the culprits. And whoever said that students refuse to tell on each other is correct. In order to regain control , the administrators had students eat in classrooms for a week. It worked. Parents of self-centered littl darlings conplained that it was “not fair” to the ones who were innocent. I agree. It was not. But life is not always fair.School discipline sometimes has to encompass the whole student body in order to be effective. Parents ad others who complain that the innocent are being punished need to understand that in a large group situation that will happen sometimes.GET OVER IT. You are part of the problem. Unfair things happen every day. You are not teaching your child the realities of life if you try to make everything fair because it can’t be.
I have never had a duty free lunch so I can have my 20 minutes in a classroom as well as in the noisy cafeteria. And any student who spills, cleans it up.
I commend the administration for taking a hard line on this. They must maintain control.
And as for students who think they are not going to change– fine, don’t. But you need to leave school and get a job. Have a food fight in your place of employment and see how long you have a job. Rules made by adults are your rules until you are old enough to be on your own. You do not have to like these rules or agree with them. But as long as you are under adult supervision, you must obey them or suffer the consequences. Your lack of respect is why teachers are discouraged and feel they have no control over their working environment. Let’s see how long it takes people to blame teachers for this. After all, everything else is our fault.
jim d
February 26th, 2010
8:33 am
Just an observation.
When you cage an animal they become defiant and hard to handle. Teens are animals in a cage called school!
Meme
February 26th, 2010
8:47 am
Wow! In all my years as a middle-school teacher, I have never seen a food fight. Yes, I have seen kids throw food in anger and fun but they were taken away by teachers and made to help clean the lunchroom. I really think the fight with one kid going to the hospital and another to jail had something to do with the closure.
Sarah H
February 26th, 2010
8:50 am
Some of the parents who complain that it wasn’t their child are only fooling themselves. I would bet dollars to donuts that their precious darlings were right in the middle of the fight.
V for Vendetta
February 26th, 2010
9:10 am
Students of Berkmar and defenders of Berkmar,
I’m surprised that so many people are willing to dismiss this behavior. I’m not going to lie: When I was in high school, I was involved in several food-throwing incidents. However, they were playful nonsense that mostly consisted of lobbing ketchup packets or pieces of a sandwich. We were punished by having to clean and wipe down everything we had hit with our projectiles. Needless to say, it didn’t happen often at my school. (I also feared the consequences were my parents to find out that I was written up for something so stupid as throwing food.)
The thing that baffles me is that people are seemingly skimming over the fact that these food fights were so bad that they had to SHUT DOWN the cafeteria. To the students who posted here, I want to say that I understand your pride in your school. You both sound like high-achievers, and I can empathize with your situation more than you might imagine. The fact still remains that the acts committed by the (reportedly) few students who started the fight were bad enough to cause a school-wide lockdown. That is intolerable and not at all a normal, everyday occurence. Why are we pretending it is?
I disagree completely about this not being a socioeconomic issue. Do schools such as Lassiter, Northview, or Brookwood have school-wide lockdowns because of food fights? I would wager that they don’t.
But don’t bring race into the equation. It devalues the hard work of students of ANY race who choose not to engage in the negative behavior of their respective cultures. (This absolutely includes whites. There are plenty of negative aspects of white culture–e.g., racism, homophobia, and intolerant religious viewpoints.)
Some will call be “classcist.” So be it. I see a lot of poverty in this country, but it’s the poverty of the mind that scares me the most. As I posted on a blog the other day, it is not hard to get books into the hands of children. They sell them in bargain bins at Barnes and Noble, Goodwill stores, and the Salvation Army stores. Some churches even have sponsored book drives for just this reason. I read to my children every single night; it only takes about ten minutes. I’m sure people can find ten minutes in their day to do so.
Let’s stop making excuses. Let’s stop giving or asking for handouts. Let’s stop acting as if behavior such as this is normal.
Ole Guy
February 26th, 2010
9:10 am
Jimmy D, you’re absolutely right; your observation further “shows ta-go-ya” that the very concept of attempting to teach the vast majority of kids these critical thinking skills is moot at best and foolhardy in its very concept. Just like one trains animals to perform in the circus, kids need to be educated to perform in the circus of life. This education needs to start at the very basic core of knowledge, the 3-Rs. As I’ve often indicated, this 3-R background is the platform upon which critical thinking skills reside; without that basic triple-R grounding, one may as well be teaching those circus animals how to form thoughts of critical analysis.
As long as the educational systems continue to delude themselves and the public that kids can jump right into these higher skills, the skills of forming complex thoughts and arriving at real solutions, we’ll continue to simply push circus animals through the 12-year pipeline.
Philosopher
February 26th, 2010
9:21 am
jimd: I agree. And I’d bet any honest adult will admit to having laughed hysterically over Animal House. So let’s just quit with hypocritical “food fight means bad parents, means bad kids, means society has gone to hell, means America has mo morals”… and treat this for what it is…kids acting up as they WILL do, without enough supervision or appropriate discipline… and deal with it. I never saw a food fight in college-did in high school-kids screw up…and then they grow up. But only with appropriate adult discipline and guidance. Suspend them, whatever…but FIRST-make them clean it up!
dnt worry
February 26th, 2010
9:23 am
berkmar is 55% black 35% hispanic6% white 5% asian
Ole Guy
February 26th, 2010
9:37 am
Marie, thank you for your first-hand observations. Unfortunately, as in many group-dynamics, it is the few who manage to cast unfavorable light upon the many. Knowing that our futures will be guided by people like you instills that much confidence in me. Please realize that you, and I certainly hope many like you, are destined to answer the call of the leadership tocsin (consider this, for now, as a research project)…no easy task, but I know you’ll be ready.
Student, by sending to to school so that you just might have a chance in life, I, and every tax payer, am minding our own business. We’re depending on you, Marie, and your entire generation to do a whole lot better than we did; perhaps to make right some of our wrongs. I hope you understand that, Student.
Christie S.
February 26th, 2010
10:08 am
I commend the students who came to this blog and posted their thoughts on the matter. I also support the principal’s decision to close the cafeteria for a week, precisely because of students’ knee-jerk reaction to not name the culprits. Peer pressure works. While the students won’t “rat” each other out, they may be more willing to force their peers to knock off the nonsense before another incident breaks out.
John K
February 26th, 2010
10:12 am
My wife is a teacher at Berkmar so I’ve been hearing quite a bit about this. The staff backs Mr. Johnson’s decision (even though it is difficult for them), and understand that yes, all students are affected, even though a small percentage was the problem.
The vast majority of Berkmar students are good kids, and do well academically (Berkmar has won (or has been a finalist) a number prestigious academic awards and events in recent years). Unfortunately, there is always a handful who make a mess of it for the majority. Mr. Johnson is taking a strong measure to tackle that issue head on and stop it before it gets any worse. The majority of the culprits have been identified and are being dealt with appropriately.
And to clear up something from the first post. The teachers are not handing out lunches and collecting money.
Knows Better
February 26th, 2010
10:19 am
Teachers ARE distributing lunches and taking up money (from those few kids that are not on free/reduced lunch.)
Ole Guy
February 26th, 2010
10:34 am
Thank you, Johnny K…I am sure the reading public anxiously awaits word on just what “appropriate measures” have been instituted upon the culprits. As financial supporters of the public education system, and as “stakeholders” in the systems’ finished products, I am certain we all wish to partake of the public transparency issues. The answers to such questions may yield to additional questions as to whether such repeat events are to be expected.
jim d
February 26th, 2010
10:38 am
just a little fact—5% cause 95% of the problems in a school.
Care to venture a guess on where that 5% fits into the scheme of things?
Philosopher
February 26th, 2010
10:40 am
Betcha in an all white school 5% would cause 95% of the problems…so your point?!