Comments on: Oakland principals speak out about gang violence, ask for help http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/02/10/principals-speak-out-about-gang-violence-ask-for-help/ Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jessica http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/02/10/principals-speak-out-about-gang-violence-ask-for-help/comment-page-1/#comment-24793 jessica Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:55:49 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=8192#comment-24793 wut da hell wuz dat all bout

]]> By: jessica http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/02/10/principals-speak-out-about-gang-violence-ask-for-help/comment-page-1/#comment-24668 jessica Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:43:39 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=8192#comment-24668 i think this is true principal do need help like we need help to make our community better and safer

]]> By: Katy Murphy http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/02/10/principals-speak-out-about-gang-violence-ask-for-help/comment-page-1/#comment-24185 Katy Murphy Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:17:14 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=8192#comment-24185 It’s important to note that the problems outlined in the letter are linked to gang members in the neighborhood, not the kids at the elementary schools. ACORN Woodland, for example, is widely seen as a success story for its academic gains and positive school culture.

]]> By: Nextset http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/02/10/principals-speak-out-about-gang-violence-ask-for-help/comment-page-1/#comment-24180 Nextset Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:26:44 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=8192#comment-24180 What school staff can do to protect schoolchildren is to exclude from enrollment at the school you want to protect any “student” with any gang affiliation including any family members who even associate with gangsters. That means no gang tattoos, haircuts, clothing, any of it. Beyond that you might want to exclude any child with parolee family or prison parents. Send them to “another” school you are not going to protect. The families might just agree to the transfers because they wouldn’t want their kid in a school where everybody is openly looking down at them.

It’s simple really.

You also teach the kiddies you don’t lie, cheat or steal or (ever) tolerate among you those that do.

Also simple. Then you remove from the school those who (at least) repeatedly get caught doing the above.

You also remove any students who are insubordinate, truant, unclean or otherwise not fit for association. You send them to the “alternative” school where anything goes.

Funding is not a problem. You maintain two schools, one you protect and one you don’t. And never the twain shall meet.

It’s so simple is was going on in 1950. It’s still going on in good schools. Sometimes we hear of it as “counseling out” as in AIM Charter schools, or maybe Piedmont. You just explain how unhappy you are/are about to be and how much happier you will be at continuation school. Or just elsewhere.

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