Counter point: The observation that you can’t allow gang members and violent disfunctional children on campus without weapon searching the kids because you “can’t have it both ways” is grossly inaccurate, as long demonstrated by the Oakland Unified School District.

Will somebody give us a counterpoint to the above posts?? What’s the party opposite’s take on all this?

This goes back to my earlier exchange with Sue who I believe is clueless about basic security – about the importance excluding any child with gang tattoos. You either have a campus of normal functional children who can be treated like – dare I say it – Piedmont kids.. Or you have an open Urban Campus where psychopathic and gang kids may abound. If you have the latter you are going to have to take the security measures of any other prison.. Armed police officers, drug dogs, weapons screening and secure perimeters (locked and alarmed emergency exits).

Because if you don’t undertake these expensive and intrusive security measures you will have uncontrollable gang violence, drug dealing and intimidation of students, teachers and staff. Just like a prison. Any decent students and staff will quit because decent people do not stay in such an environment period.

My beef with this photo is that the government in it’s indifference to maintaining basic law and order in minority communities has decided to not provide clean, safe and decent schools to black children – or for that matter all children – in Urban Areas (read that black areas) – because the Government will not maintain any kind of standards of behavior and performance in government schools to the point that the schools even look like jails. The photo above really says it all.

And her “parents” cannot manage their lives so that this little girl can attend a real school and not a ghetto jungle school…

And because she is born the way she is she just has to live like this – regardless of her own behavior, morals, ability, grades, test scores or anything else. This photo is why I call for the segregation of students who can perform from those who don’t perform.

Normal kids who perform academically belong in a real schools like those in Piedmont USD, not the maximum security District-wide ghetto failure factories popular in Urban School Districts. And even the little black girls should have a fair shot in landing in a real school despite her home address.

The refusal of the urban schools to segregate distrubed, dangerous and undesirable students into their own schools leads to use of ghetto protocols for all students enrolled in the school – thus a white, asian and middle-class flight. Think of it this way. Have you ever been into a ghetto branch of Wells Fargo Bank? Now can you imagine actually banking there? No – you go to a bank that is not loaded up with crack head patrons and maybe gang-girl tellers. A “nice” bank in a “nice” neighborhood.

You vote with your feet for how you want to live and how you want to be treated. This produces neighborhoods that look like Piedmont and neighborhoods that look like – ghetto Oakland.

I would prefer that instead of Bagdad-style security, the schools looked at the enrollment and started removing the unstable, disturbed and criminally oriented students to alternative schools and did their strip-searching or whatever there. It’s just more efficient and that way you might actually retain students worth having in your school district.

These photos will make excellent recruiting posters – for the Charters and Private Schools.

What the hell does that mean!?