The public perception and will used as a model by social in-activists and unions to suck money out of the system to further their personal agendas. Whatever happened to reform schools?
POINT OF VIEW: Breaking the culture of silence
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Rosie & I seem to be among the few asking the hard questions!
Where are parents of juvenile thugs?
Here's a radical concept: Maybe parents should check their kids' knapsacks for guns, knives, baseball bats and brass knuckles before the little darlings leave for school in the morning.
Maybe those same parents, rather than hollering discrimination and inequity in the application of formal discipline by school officials – as feeble and litigiously diluted as that has been – should explore attitudes, rationalizations and see-no-evil laissez-faire in their own households.
If you think this is not true, or too harsh, then spend a day in youth court and observe while young people who've run afoul of the law – repeatedly, in many cases – present themselves as insolently towards the bench as they no doubt do in a principal's office, often in the company of a parent or guardian who appears more resentful over the procedure than distressed for a kid rocketing off the rails.
It doesn't take a village to raise a child. It takes one or two responsible adults, especially in homes that are particularly vulnerable to the broader, contaminating and voracious environment outside.
Falconer never asked us: No-shows
Louise Brown Jan. 13, 2008 She has had seven students murdered under her watch in seven years as a Toronto school superintendent, and Phyllis Hill says she would have a lot to say to Julian Falconer about how each horrific young death is complex,
Violent schools in divided city
David Hulchanski Jan. 13, 2008
The murder of a student in one of our schools caused, at best – if we want to be honest with ourselves – a modest amount of concern in the City of Toronto and very little beyond Toronto. "The ... MORE
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