Student beats high school art teacher, school officials call to deal with classroom violence
Student beats high school art teacher, school officials call to deal with classroom violence
The beating of a high school art teacher by a student has prompted city and school officials to call for more resources to deal with classroom violence.
Art teacher Jolita Berry was beaten in an attack that was recorded on a cellphone camera and posted to the Internet. Berry says the attack began when she told a female student to sit down and behave and she is afraid to return to the classroom.
Teacher’s union president Marietta English said her office receives two or three complaints a day of assaults on teachers.
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon said the problem is getting out of hand and stern discipline is needed. State Schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick called for increased character education, community partnerships and parental responsibility.
City schools officials say the student involved in the attack on Berry has been suspended.
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Next the kid needs to be criminally charged with assault. At the same time the teacher needs to run down and get herself a lawyer and secure an injunction so that the kid never comes back to that school, or anywhere near the teacher, again. This idiot kid needs to be made an example of so all the other idiot kids will know they can not get away with that kind of behavior. Saving that kid to be a productive member of society is not going to happen and is a complete wast of time, money, and effort.
If these kids do “adult” crimes, then they should be charged as “adults”….
until there is a strong response, this type of crime is going to continue.
“Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”.
I agree with Superintendent Nancy Grasmick; student need to have some character education and lessons in values clarification. Additionally, there are some things teachers and parents can do to help eliminate this explosive behavior. I taught for more than 20 years and for the last 3 years, I’ve been in over 500 classrooms, observing, modeling, and coaching. I’ve seen first hand what works and what doesn’t. There are several very effective classroom management strategies that I’ve observed over and over. The teachers who use them have fewer (if any) major behavior issues.
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you know everyone rags on the students and the parents and the law and how out of control the times we live in are.there are bad teachers out there.ive met a few that severely need a beating.
I repectfully disagree. No student or teacher need a beating. In fact, statistics show that one of the major reasons kids act out at school is because of abuse at home. I’ve met a lot of kids in my 15 plus years of public school teaching that belonged in either the boys or girls reformatory but I never met one that ’severely needed a beating.” And while I agree wholeheartedly there are plenty of bad teachers out there, none of them deserved a beating. Pink slips, yes, without a doubt, but not a beating.
Most of our lives, this kind of thing wasn’t happening. What changed? How is it that students are beating up teachers? When teachers fear the students, learning doesn’t happen. I don’t remember this being so common when I was in school, not that long ago.
What changed?
Our society became litigious over time and now schools are forced into a danged if you do, danged if you don’t situaton. They can enforce discipline and spend lots of taxpayer money defending the district, or they let the kids run rampant until the police have to be called in to handle it. When I attended high school the only time I ever saw a cop car in the vicinity was when a friend of mine’s father would drop her off at school in the morning because he was a State Trooper. Our Assistant Principal was God and he never let the kids forget it, and they respected him in return because he was fair and played no favorites regardless of the kid’s social or economic status.
The attacker should go to jail for assault. No plea bargin, no probation , no nothing. Go directly to jail. I d not blame the parents. This teenagesis old enough to know righ from wrong. She neds to be held accountable. Perhaps after an investigation, the parents should go to jail too as accssories. Who knows… but the girl should definately go to JAIL.
Dads nowhere to be seen…children being raised by day care…no such thing as right and wrong…our culture is reaping what it has sown over the past few decades. The people that built this country are rolling in their graves.
The problem is similar to the difference between the constitution and all the federal laws we have today. We are trying to write rules and regulations for every conceivable situation that happens. Nobody is using common sense. The attacker needs to be arrested, charged, and go through the courts. The suspension is what the school does. What are the police going to do? What are the parents going to do? When I was in school my worse fear, when I screwed up, was going home and getting it from Dad. Too many partents today treat the schools as babysitters so they don’t have to be responsible for the kid. What a groups of losers. I can’t blame the kid entirely, but - you do the crime, you do the time. It’s that simple.
I am stunned at some of you who dont think this is a big deal. I am 30 years old and not long ago things were so different in schools. My parents taught me to respect the teacher-the adults. There was so in between. if I got in trouble at school I got in much more trouble at home. that taught me to be a respectful member of society. Now, teachers cant yell at a kid without being threatened with a lawsuit by GOOD FOR NOTHING LOSER PARENTS and THEIR KIDS!
I say send the girls who did this AND their parents to jail. While they are at it send those horrible girls down in Florida who beat that other girl senseless AND their parents to jail. There should be zero percent tolerence for this kind of nonsense.
By the time kids are old enough to go to high school, they pretty much know if they want to be there or not.
If they choose to go, then they must follow the rules. If they choose not too follow the rules, then I agree with the not-working, boot camp for Iraq comment.
I’ve said this in other posts, but I’m telling you people, the draft needs to be reinstated.
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