CMS Math: 29 Kids With Guns + 18 Sexual Attacks + 51 Attacks on Personnel = 0 Expulsions?
The new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools crime and punishment stats for the 2006-2007 school year are in, and as usual, they don't add up. Consider the list below of offenses committed by students. Then consider that not one single student was expelled from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools this year.
Here's a sampling of what went on in our schools this year:
29 possessions of a firearm
8 sexual assaults
10 sexual offenses
51 assaults on school personnel
11 assaults involving the use of a weapon
13 assaults resulting in serious injury
5 robberies without a dangerous weapon
1 robbery with a dangerous weapon
415 possessions of a weapon
CMS spokesperson LaTarzja Henry says that 1,541 students were excluded from regular school
programs and assigned to either Derita Alternative School, Right Choices or Midwood/Tate Taps High School. The schools are for students with serious behavior problems. Assignment to these schools isn't permanent. Any kid sent there can come back to mainstream classrooms, and they often do. (Under Superintendent Peter Gorman's new discipline program, which starts next year, assignments to these schools will extend until the end of the school year.)
Henry says another 70 students were excluded from classes for periods of between 11 and 365 days. But no one was permanently expelled from the system.
All of which has long made me wonder ... what exactly do you have to do to be expelled from CMS? Since the list above includes just about every conceivable violent offense but murder, that must be it. Does a student actually have to kill someone on campus to be expelled? Or would they allow the kid to return after he serves his one-year plea bargained sentence for murder courtesy of the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's office?
Henry says that the school board will hold eight expulsion hearings later this month.
Get these offenders out of the cms system. No one can learn in that environment. CMPD resource officers can't do much. Also lets get the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxl white tee shirts and gang wear out of the school. If my kid was not going into 11th grade we would move. Just curious what was the racial breakdown, social status, parent status, section 8 residents. It is all relative to the problems.
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I am wondering now too what you have to do to get kicked out of CMS. I was afraid to even defend myself when picked on in school (1980-1992) because I feared getting getting in trouble.
I do remember the bad kids who did get expelled and it was a good rest of the year for a lot of us not to have to live in fear.
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Ok easy solution: Every time a juvenile creates these problems arrest the parent.... and send them to a mandatory parenting class, then maybe they will get angry enough to confront their children, instead of ignoring them. Putting these kids in another building just gives them more Buddies to gang up with with like minds,,,, NO places should be in the system that harbor potential hoodlums./ 18 years old is a legal adult, they need to be out of the system, and parent held accountable under 18.
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maybe when these kids are arrested the received a little physical negative bio feed back like i got as a kid, if i kid hits a teacher let the teacher fight back and send the kid to the hospital, CMS it too soft after a few kids go to the hospital then maybe they will get the message, All CMS needs a few columbines and maybe they will address the problems or get use to going to funerals, after they turn 18 they are adults and not entitled to education.
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When I was in school(1981 Grad-from Illinois), if a student was arrested for any of the crimes listed, he would have been arrested, hauled into court, and most likely sent to a juvenile home.( Some were kind of like kid prison if the offenses were as steep as some of these), but at least they were not left in society for their (unfit?) parents to take care of.I think that some people might have got the idea that these "children" were being punished too harshly, and were being "groomed" for real prison and maybe that practice may have stopped. These thugs are not children, they act more like animals, and should be caged as such.No Child Left Behind? What a SAD excuse. They are disrupting and leaving behind those who want an education.
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Let's see . . . how many years have we been paying for women to have children out of wedlock? I'll bet most of these students don't have intact families, maybe never even knew their dads or any kind of true family stability. I suggest that norplant should be a requirement for a woman after her first taxpayer funded illegitimate baby, and practical help for those single moms, i.e. higher education, job training and placement, (taxpayer and privately funded) so they are not trapped in a cycle of perpetual poverty that having children out of wedlock creates. From my experience and perspective, which I realize is limited, I've come to the conclusion that a child raised in a two parent home has a better chance of being successful in school.
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I suppose CMS has forgotten that education is an honor, not a right! I taught for over 10 years, and firmly believe that if you aren't there to learn, leave, and none of us will weep over you. And one has to wonder if the reason CMS is hanging onto these kids is for monetary reasons....I believe they are "paid" based upon how many kids are in their system. It makes me glad we are homeschooling our children and instilling in them a desire to learn and be positive leaders.
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