Massachusetts High School Wants National Guard Deployed to Deal With Disruptions
“These situations not only put the students and staff at risk but also undermines the overall safety of our community”
This is happening in the city of Brockton where the inmates are apparently running the asylum.
FOX News reports:
Massachusetts high school pleads National Guard quell ‘shocking levels of chaos and violence’ among students
A group of Massachusetts educators are pleading for Gov. Maura Healey to deploy National Guard troops to Brockton High School to help quell what teachers described as “shocking levels of chaos and violence” among the students there, posing serious security concerns over the past several months.
In a letter last week, four Brockton School Committee members – Joyce Asack, Tony Rodrigues, Claudio Gomes and Ana Oliver – asked that Brockton Mayor Robert Sullivan request temporary National Guard support at Brockton High School from Healey to address “a disturbing increase in incidents related to violence, security concerns, and substance abuse.”
“Recent events at Brockton High School have prompted us to seek immediate assistance to prevent a potential tragedy,” the letter, obtained by several local news outlets, read. “The situation has reached a critical point, more recently we had an alarming 35 teachers absent, underscoring the severity of the challenges we are facing.”
The letter said instances of students wandering the halls, engaging in altercations and causing disruptions in classrooms “have become alarmingly frequent.”
“These incidents are not only undermining the learning environment but are also jeopardizing the integrity of the state-wide testing process,” roughly half of the committee wrote. “As concerned members of the school committee, we are reaching out to you with the hope that the City and State can provide assistance and support in addressing this urgent matter.”
The letter pointed to a recent spike in students leaving school grounds without permission, as well as trespassers on school property, citing “a lack of adequate staffing” at entrances and exits.”
“These situations not only put the students and staff at risk but also undermines the overall safety of our community,” the letter said.
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What have they done to deal with this themselves? Something? Suspensions? Arrests? Anything?
What ever happened to expulsions?
The expelled delinquents eventually ended up as cannon fodder for The War of the Week, or as janitors, ditch diggers, or other menials. That seemed to have worked better than “oh, he or she is just misunderstood…”
Expulsion was essentially outlawed in Massachusetts ten years ago under MA Chapter 222. Basically, suspensions are limited to 90 TOTAL days (not consecutive days), and the district MUST, by law, provide education to the student during any suspension. Poor districts cannot afford individualized education programs, so they are effectively forced to allow students to continue in class.
But if the NG is tied up in Brockton schools, who will provide escort service next time a brown face shows up on Martha’s Vineyard?
the school was quick to also explain:
we still dont want the police here
but the national guard is “different”
see,,we have reached such a level of lefty run censorship >>>fear
that the teachers would have called for more police but THATTTT owuld set off certain 503 501c tax free groups
instead the call for the national guard so it
SOUNDS/SEEMS like its not a local call
they did the same thing that NIXON GOT BLAMED FOR AT KENT OHIO
and of course the lying infamous song by neil young
it was the Dems who called for the Guard so that THEY WOULDT BE RESPONSIBLE
BUT AS USUAL
THE LEFTY TRICKERY IS CALLED OUT
btw
the other articles on this said the “Students”
are having se x and doing dr ugs IN THE CLASSROOMS
where do they think they are at?
the white house?????
funny, but on the mark
People are missing the entire picture here. This is impacting state wide testing which impacts funding. That is why they suddenly are concerned
What a marvelous opportunity to bring in consultants from Harvard.
Let them show the world how it OUGHT to be done.
And the whole project can — in real time, going forward — be monitored/audited by an impartial third-party consultant.
C’mon Harvard, show us wat you got
They already have. Gay, after committing educational heresy, while students were expelled for such things, was crowned with an “atta girl” ribbon, and a $900,000 tenured professorship, pretty much destroying 400 years of “supposed” honesty. Ha!
I am reminded of what happened in the St. Paul, Minnesota school system. Black students got a disproportionate number of expulsions and suspensions. The assumption by well-meaning liberals was that this was due to racist disciplinary policies. Unfortunately for the well-meaning liberals, blacks exhibited disproportionate behavior problems (which anyone who has taught could have told you) which resulted in disproportionate expulsions and suspensions. St. Paul: New discipline policy sows dissatisfaction. In St. Paul, administrators dealt with disparities in discipline by reducing suspensions and expulsions. In the end, the superintendent was fired and few were happy with the result.
The school superintendent got fired in 2016. I haven’t yet found out information on how St. Paul schools fared after she was fired. She got a golden parachute of some $700,000.
https://thefederalist.com/2016/07/29/federal-racial-discipline-quotas-create-chaos-in-st-paul-schools/
Or, TL;DR, when exactly the same thing happened in Broward County schools. Instead of some teacher getting punched, their bad apple returned with a rifle and murdered 14 students and three teachers.
Here is an update, albeit nine months old, on the St. Paul school system. Once again, well-intentioned liberals fell flat on their faces by taking cops out of the St. Paul schools. St. Paul school surveys after stabbing death show desire for tougher student consequences
Here is something that appears to have worked.
The school board voted in 2020 to removed police from schools as a result to the George Floyd death and riots.. Most principals opposed the move. Currently students and parents want them back.
A good school cop spends a lot of time schmoozing with students, enabling him to get a pulse on what is going on.
Let’s have the student newspaper at Harvard investigate this story
Brockton high school is the largest in the state of MA, and it is 60% black.
National Guard?! What’s wrong with the plain old police? Surely this is exactly what they are for.
And it shouldn’t matter what the school thinks of it; it’s not private property, it’s city property and the police are the city, so surely they don’t need anyone’s permission to be there.
Its deep blue state MA. Police have been defunded. Try to keep up.
As a father of a guardsman, I can state that they are not trained for this. If they are armed, there will be bloodshed. If they are unarmed, they will be ineffective.
Funny, I went to high school in the 1960s, and as far as I can remember, high schools in the 50s and 60s had no National Guardspersons, no police, no security guards, and no disruptions to require them — even schools in poor areas, even racially-segregated schools.
Gee, I wonder what changed…
But we did have a faculty monitor at the door to the smoking room, to admit only those who had parental permission slips on file.
Teachers not showing up for work because students are doing drugs and having sex in class, and getting into fights and brining weapons. High school is over 60% black. So blame “institutional racism” ? Maybe change the name of the school?
*bringing weapons.
If a republican invited the National Guard into the local schools, can you imagine shrieking
If a country in Africa or South America or Asia requested military intervention on behalf of the local schools, can you imagine the shrieking
Maybe the United Nations should investigate Brockton, Massachusetts
Maybe the governor of Massachusetts should be brought to the UN International Court of Justice for human rights violations, apartheid, and crimes against humanity
Brockton is 27% white, 51% African-American. -Wikipedia
Brockton is what happens when blacks are given authority to manage all their own affairs. Like haiti.
I simply cannot fathom how any of this could be happening — After all, there are so many educated people right near by.
And those educated people tell us constantly how good they are and how elite they are
Why, there’s harvard and Boston University and MIT and there’s Tufts and there’s Amherst and there’s Williams and there’s Brown University too
Surely there must be some kind of a mistake in the reporting. Brockton surely must be an a very average school system with above average levels of academic achievement. A regular Lake Winston.
In fact, it’s not just higher education elites right near by—no, there’s also elite , better than you high schools like a hosts and Belmont and Phillips all nearby Surely they have exchange programs for disseminating all that makes these people and institutions elite
Where are the better than you and me senators from MA — Elizabeth Warren and
Ed Markey. They are democrats and they care. And they always tell us how they know how to heal the worlds various problems
Surely they’ve got this under control already
Surely , very soon we will be reading about the Brockton Schools Miracle
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Sheesh what a relief it is knowing that so many elite and wealthy and good people are within minutes from Brockton
50 years ago, Brockton was just another slowly-dying Massachusetts white mill town, with a predominantly Portuguese subculture. I used to drive there regularly to buy size 16A boots from King Size, because you couldn’t get those off the rack at Payless and K-Mart. Now they’re a national company that left Brockton for the Internet and Amazon, and neither one of us have to deal with Brockton any longer.
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