Tag: Education

Remember when I said that parents were a big part of the problem? Well, here’s an extreme example.

Mother, Sons Charged With Beating Teacher Unconscious

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Police say a mother and her two sons beat a teacher unconscious at school with a desk and a chair because she had suspended the younger boy.

The teacher, who works in an alternative school program for troubled youth, had suspended the boy for spitting in her face and pushing her, police said.

Jamie Mereness, 34, and her 17-year-old son William Ramos, went with her 12-year-old son to the school Tuesday afternoon to confront the teacher, who was not identified, police said Thursday.

Police said Mereness, Ramos and the younger son choked and punched the teacher, then used a desk and a chair to beat her in a basement classroom, Detective Lt. Santo Centamore said.

The victim’s 11 year-old son witnessed the attack and called 911.

I wonder why the hell anybody would want to be a teacher these days. Attacked from above and below, and unable to control your classrooms, it just sets you up to be a victim.

History? Hell, they’re not even teaching writing anymore! Much less research.

Go read 2 Rs Left in High School.

“High school junior Dominique Houston is a straight-A student enrolled in honors and Advanced Placement classes at Northview High School in Covina. She is a candidate for class valedictorian and hopes to double-major in marine biology and political science in college, preferably UCLA or the University of San Diego.”

Sounds great, doesn’t she? Honor roll, straight-A’s in college-prep level courses. But what’s this?

“But the 17-year-old said she has written only one research paper during her high school career. It was three pages long, examining the habits of beluga whales.

” ‘Bibliographies? We don’t really even know how to do those. I don’t even know how I would write a 15-page paper. I don’t even know how I would begin,’ she said.”

ADVANCED PLACEMENT. They aren’t schools, they’re warehouses for children.