Mike Teacher
10-19-2003, 07:34 PM
Pine Cones, Golf Balls, Powder Puff Drunken Brawling, Football Players beating up Pizza Guys.
Here's another cheery nugget, from a district by me. Perhaps I should really be Mike the Ex-Teacher, because, sadly, this is why I left the full-time Mr. Holland type stuff. Thats and some other reasons. I know some of these teachers. Worked with a couple. It's sad.
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Asbury Park schools called 'out of control'
Published in the Asbury Park Press 10/17/03
By NANCY SHIELDS
COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU
ASBURY PARK -- Teachers, parents and school board members last night agreed the school year has gotten off to an unacceptable start because of complex problems that allow undisciplined students to create disruptive and sometimes unsafe conditions.
"There's an alarm at the door," said Karl Crudup, president of the Asbury Park Education Association. "Our school district is out of control in several categories."
Crudup told board members that because of inadequate discipline of problem students, it is unsafe for students and staff members throughout the district. He said the board's policy on discipline is not being enforced.
Judith Young, a health and physical education teacher in the Asbury Park Middle School, said classes are interrupted by students roaming the halls, that a pregnant teacher was knocked down and had to go to the hospital, that there is not a sufficient suspension program and there has been a lack of discipline during the first three weeks of school that left "buildings out of control."
The frustration within the schools led to approximately 75 teachers picketing outside the site of last night's school board meeting at the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, and about 200 teachers, parents and community members later attended the meeting inside.
Schools Superintendent Antonio Lewis said earlier yesterday that eight or nine security guards have been cut primarily from the middle and high schools under the state cuts, positions that can be reinstated if the money is.
But he said that since those cuts this fall, "teachers are looking for everything they can to say there's no security in the building."
Board President Remond Palmer welcomed the teachers and parents and said he too saw problems in the middle school two weeks ago that made him complain to Lewis that there was "absolutely no learning going on in the school."
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Here's another cheery nugget, from a district by me. Perhaps I should really be Mike the Ex-Teacher, because, sadly, this is why I left the full-time Mr. Holland type stuff. Thats and some other reasons. I know some of these teachers. Worked with a couple. It's sad.
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Asbury Park schools called 'out of control'
Published in the Asbury Park Press 10/17/03
By NANCY SHIELDS
COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU
ASBURY PARK -- Teachers, parents and school board members last night agreed the school year has gotten off to an unacceptable start because of complex problems that allow undisciplined students to create disruptive and sometimes unsafe conditions.
"There's an alarm at the door," said Karl Crudup, president of the Asbury Park Education Association. "Our school district is out of control in several categories."
Crudup told board members that because of inadequate discipline of problem students, it is unsafe for students and staff members throughout the district. He said the board's policy on discipline is not being enforced.
Judith Young, a health and physical education teacher in the Asbury Park Middle School, said classes are interrupted by students roaming the halls, that a pregnant teacher was knocked down and had to go to the hospital, that there is not a sufficient suspension program and there has been a lack of discipline during the first three weeks of school that left "buildings out of control."
The frustration within the schools led to approximately 75 teachers picketing outside the site of last night's school board meeting at the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, and about 200 teachers, parents and community members later attended the meeting inside.
Schools Superintendent Antonio Lewis said earlier yesterday that eight or nine security guards have been cut primarily from the middle and high schools under the state cuts, positions that can be reinstated if the money is.
But he said that since those cuts this fall, "teachers are looking for everything they can to say there's no security in the building."
Board President Remond Palmer welcomed the teachers and parents and said he too saw problems in the middle school two weeks ago that made him complain to Lewis that there was "absolutely no learning going on in the school."
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