LOL. I received in – school suspension for skipping school when I was a high school student in FL (almost a decade ago). Not that excuses work, but I skipped classes because I was afraid of being around other people and bullied, plus I didn’t find the courses challenging. I eventually went to a private school and graduated with a 3.7. It was so much better than the “you’re a number” public system.

The concept of putting a troubled kid in a room for a day, doing nothing for hours of a time, is absolutely ridiculous. It means wasted time, no actual help to the student or their education. I suppose they do it because it’s cheaper. And they just expect the trouble makers to drop out when they hit 16, so why make the effort?

And why are’t these deadbeats at least pushing papers, or painting something…like walls. Oh, yeah…I forgot..Unions.

Amen to that. But how ridiculous that not only the sorry teachers get paid for doing nothing, but the good teachers only get paid for doing a job that is now twice as hard. Someone has to take those students…guess who it is? Of course it’s the over burdened good teachers who do it the right way while the others play card games.

Talk about life not being fair!

Their classes are much smaller than the normal class. You would think she would have more time per child.

You wouldn’t need to SEND her anywhere. She made her own “reassignment center” in her classroom.

Parents and the aids complained but of course she was a UNION member! In fact she was made the lead teacher of the ESE classes and made a ton of trouble for another teacher for having a “craft club” on her own, where she had the students learning to measure and read instructions and to make judgements about their projects. This was NOT in the usual course of instructions for these kids.

My granddaughter hated this woman’s class. Even she was bored…with a learning challenge she was bored! My husband and I had a big meeting with about 15 people there, including the board of ed rep and another old teacher of my granddaughter’s, We were able to finally get her transfered to the teacher who got in trouble for actually TEACHING! The kids all loved her and loved her classes. She had to pay for her competence though. The other stupid teacher gave her constant grief.

Sooo….you don’t have to be “reassigned” to get paid for doing nothing. You just have to be a union member and the right color.

BTW they HATED “No child left behind”. Surprise!

Rick Moran of American Thinker had an article today about how far along the US is with Socialism already. He lists 8 or so countires that have less than 40% of the economy controlled by the government and Australia is one of them.

I lived in Australia for a year, and it was great.

Thinking about it myself.

If Universal Health Scare passes, the US will be in the tank for at least 20 years.

And as we all know, the inmates are running the show now anyway.

(Surprised that joke wasn’t taken already)

But seriously 700 parasites at the rate of 70K apiece ?!?!?!

That’s 49,000,000 smackers for Christ’s sake!

You could open a whole private school franchise for that much money and come up with a healthy profit.

How far do we let these smiley-face nazis go before some serious butt gets stomped?

Three YEARS? They couldn’t resolve this in under a week? Over such a tiny squabble? Paid full salary for sitting in a room? What a joke….

I went to a private middle school, without a union, and when one teacher was accused and charged by the police with the rape of a young student (later found guilty), he was quickly fired…not put in some “rubber room” to play scrabble for three years…

One social studies class, which belonged to the coach of the football team, had all the obnoxious jocks in it and while they acted up, I wrote each and every one up. The teacher had given me no lesson plan, no instructions of any kind and nothing to teach. So, out of revenge, I found his stash of cookies and let the kids eat them. They made a mess in the classroom but I failed to care.

I was never asked to sub for his class again but when I did go back to that school for another class, he confronted me in the teacher’s lounge and threatened me. So I said, “well, here’s the deal, sport, we’re gonna take this to the principal and if I don’t get satisfaction, I’ll take it to the local news channels. They love to hack on football coaches anyhow. And before you go chewing my ass, why don’t you chew out your precious little football players who displayed remarkably little discipline in my class and no respect towards me. And by the way, I have no dreams of becoming a teacher, especially one like you. I have far more important things to do other than daycare”.

He was fuming….I said, “let’s go take it to the principal. He wouldn’t come with me. But I told the principal what I told the social studies teacher and also said that I’d better get some sort of satisfaction from being threatened by him.” I got a written letter of apology from the guy and I wrote back that he could stick it up his you-know-what”.

Fortunately, I found steady work after that and never looked back. But I subbed at a lot of schools and though some were better than others, they were all broken. Focused on “outcome-based” education where the A and B students are largely ignored, accolades minimized for excelling and the lesser-achievers were praised just for showing up to class.

Not like when I was in high school…not one bit. The main problem I had was that the students were in charge, and they knew it.

So, the trend will continue and permeate throughout the nation as it’s doing now.

I am fully expecting that the nation that had the greatest minds on Earth that put men on the Moon, has been on a steady decline since then and now is at risk of being divvied up by selfish special interests that will destroy it.

Wished it would’ve begun after my time on Earth…but sadly I have to witness it in my middle-age.

Still thinking of moving.

As to the article, when I was in public school (briefly, thank G-d) in GA, they had something called ‘In-school suspention’ for students who misbehaved. Essentially, the same thing as this article but for kids: a student comes to school and sits in a special room and does whatever they want for 3-5 days at a time. Amazingly, there were alot of repeat offenders. Even then, I expected some sort of outcry about how this was a waste and foolish and not at all helpful to anyone, but shockingly, that never happened and I believe ISS continues to this day.

Are I write, or is I wright?