Okay... understood. Nothing you said in your last conflicts with my points, and anything I may have assumed was done so because I wasn't privy to all the facts concerning your specific case.
All I would ask further is, Who is the PRIMARY educator for your sons? The answer is obviously YOU and your wife. Who is the primary disciplinarian of your sons? Same answer. The role of the district is to ensure fair, uniform and safe enviroments for the classroom learning that the law requires. There is nothing in the school district program that you can't add to or correct with the right tools in your own home, if you should feel the need. And, of course, there is always home-schooling if you simply want to wash your hands of the entire public school experience.
Obviously, 5 students taking up 50% of the discipline is a bad thing, and something the principal will have to address. I meant no offense, and am not suggesting that the entire grade or school suffer so that the "system" can pander to one or two problem children. What I am asking (still, because it wasn't answered) is what YOU would do differently, given the opportunities that the principal has now.
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I love you to death my dear but you cannot seriously be comparing my son's dumbshit choice of an insult towards a kid that has been harrassing him for the school year to --- an OBVIOUSLY very emotionally disturbed boy who yields a weapon and shouts "now I have something to kill with" in class.
Ugh.
I think this boy (9 year old) is either very disturbed or very abused or both. The school district would be in error to leave him in general curriculum as they obviously cannot serve his emotional needs. He needs to be referred to the state for intervention. I hope that he will...and that Children and Youth are involved etc etc. It is in the best interest of all the children that he be removed from the school after that sort of incident.
Ryan is right in the sense that it is NOT the public school system's job or responsibility to "raise" the children...only educate, and provide a safe environment for such education to take place.
Although...I do think it takes a village in part to ensure that all children in our society are stable and safe. This is not to say that we need to go out of our way to be involved but rather to follow the commandment to "Love one another."
Meaning, whenever possible in life and ESPECIALLY when our children are watching...we are to use any opportunity possible to help another as situations cross our path. Help in this situation being, in a firm but kind tone and manner -- suggesting that the school is doing this 9 year old boy a diservice (sp?) by keeping him in the general curriculum. That you would hope that if it WAS your child that was having mental issues such as these...that the school would and could...make appropriate referrals to an agency that could help him. And of course pray for him and his family. Et cetera...
At any rate, back to my darling Titus...with all due respect... Mr. NEPA-13-year-old's racial slur is a far cry from Nevada's 9-year-old's grossly disturbing act.
I say ship that kid off to the funny farm as fast as Bill Clinton can sweep an intern under his desk!
Don't forget to vote today Titus!
*Kiss*
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