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What a wonderful world!

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/302148/california-america-s-welfare-queen-nash-keune

Just so you know, the recent numbers have not changed much. The data is here(although not compiled together):

http://www.acgov.org/childcare/other.htm

Broken people from broken homes are a big part of the problem just as is denial(of same)and people waking up are realizing that things are just as bad or worse than they ever have been(this is the new normal).

However the kids that were yelled at, neglected, (at school! when I was at Webster years ago two classes ran on subs for virtually a year– those kids went literally crazy) whose play needs were ignored,, whose emotional needs were ignored, who were stuffed into large classes with extremely over-burdened teachers and stressed out classmates pushing every possible boundary are now out on the streets, broken people who are dangerous.

I don’t think we want to carry around heavy weaponry, and I don’t think it would help a bit.
WE NEED:
Small classes for these kids who are often ignored at home and have seen awful things, and there’s a lot of them. In fact, have you ever met a teacher who did not agree that small classes are good for any kids?

More police for prevention. SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES. Whatever it takes.
It’s stressful having kids even if you don’t have to worry about food and housing. JOBS– what is more distressing than not being able to work and make a living wage. TRAINING. COUNSELING.
CHILD-CARE. PRE-SCHOOL education as a matter of course.

Let’s see if we can develop a theory based on factual evidence. Lets start with what we know to be true:

1. Oakland is one of the most violent and dangerous cities in America.

http://sfist.com/2012/10/19/oakland_stockton_make_forbes_most_v.php

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/most-dangerous-cities-america-832351

2. Oakland has one of the highest per capita rates of broken families,homes/public assistance statewide.

snippet taken from following link:

http://www.acgov.org/childcare/glance.htm

AFDC Child Population Description

Ages of Children on AFDC: 45,518 children between the ages of birth to 12 years old received AFDC.

10,649 children were between the ages of birth to 3 years old.
8,725 children were between the ages of 3.1 to 5 years old.
26,144 children were between the ages of 5 – 12 years old.

Family Income on AFDC:

In Alameda County the average family size on AFDC is three.
The monthly grant for a family of three is $565 per month ($6,780 annually).
The overall average AFDC grant in Alameda County is $485 per month ($5,820 annually).

Geographic Distribution: Of all the children in Alameda County on AFDC:

63% resided in Oakland
12% resided in Hayward
5% resided in Fremont
4% were in Berkeley Alameda and Union City each had 3%
2 % or less resided, respectively, in the towns of Livermore, Newark, Castro Valley, Albany, Dublin, Pleasanton and Sunol.

http://capoliticalnews.com/2012/12/26/fathers-disappear-from-households-across-america-big-increase-in-single-mothers/

quote from following link:

http://www.ofcy.org/assets/Uploads/Strategic-Plan/OFCY-Youth-Indicator-Report.03162012.pdf

“Youth in Oakland are affected directly by child abuse and indirectly through witnessing domestic violence.
Over 3000 incidents of domestic violence were reported to the Oakland police in the 2010
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2011 fiscal year. Of the 10 police beats with the most reported incidences of domestic violence,
eight were in East Oakland. Nearly one-third of all reported child abuse involves children 0-5 years of age.Rates of alleged and substantiated child abuse are three times lower than the state average for Alameda County. However,African Americans had rates of allegations of child maltreatment that were three times higher than the county average (93.4 per 1000)
and substantiations of child abuse that were almost four times higher than the county average (16.3 per 1000)”.

There is so much more data and evidence out there. One thing is sure, the violence exists and is perpetuated by a public assistance system that aids and abets(for decades now) people who cannot even take care of themselves to procreate generation after generation(democratic voters all) of directionless,ill-fed ill-taught children who are raised in mostly fatherless broken homes. Can anyone hazard a guess as to what the probable outcomes might be? that’s right, exactly what we have now!

Point of fact: most murders and crime do not come from Officers. Yet the OEA and your comments above focus on the Police as the ones creating the problem.

Yes, some Officers are bad. But that does not mean all Officers are. Also police are not part of the prison industrial complex. As point of fact they are often a deterrent to it…

Yes we need to decrease the trauma on students and teachers associated with crime and violence. We need to help with mental health services when it has happened and we need to do what we can to prevent it from happening to begin with.

I know many staff who have been injured, as well as myself, from breaking up student fights, or dealing with outsiders trying to get to a student in a classroom. I myself have back, hip and knee injuries that are sometimes very uncomfortable, and are constant reminders of traumatic events related to the job. I have, along with my colleagues at work, have had to process the loss of students. I have had to deal with PTSD related to what I have seen and what I have been through, and I anticipate that it’s not a rarity for OUSD school site personnel.

The amount of emotional and physical trauma our students carry, whether from home, the streets, the school to prison/military pipeline, the few rotten apple cops who get away with murder when they shoot to kill students and youth without legal motive-whatever difficulty a students is going through emotionally will show itself in the classroom. School site personnel are the front line in the OUSD for being confronted by and addressing issues with our students.

I urge all readers with conscience to disregard the few insensitive, provocative, and ultimately spiritually stupid posts that may accompany this article on the impact of violence on school personnel, such as #1 and #2.