Thursday, April 14, 2005
What's Happening at Schools?
Apparently, nothing good.
Since the BIG Story broke, I've been poking around. Mostly in the hopes of finding out these sorts of things are isolated, but I'm beginning to wonder.
At FOXNews, Joanne Jacobs has a round-up of some breathtaking stuff.
The Indianapolis Star published an op-ed about last week's pie assault on David Horowitz at Butler. I think the piece is supposed to be funny. It tries to make light of Horowitz contention that it was violence. When I was on Young Life staff, I told the kids if they got enough people to club, they could hit me with pies afterwards. One of them almost broke my nose. Trust me, pie throwing is violence.
Tuesday at Harvard the CIA and Dept. Of Homeland Security were recruiting and they brought protests. Here is the student newspaper news account and here is an eye-witness opinion piece from the same source. From the opinion piece:
So how did it get this bad? Judging from this story, it's because those "in charge" are just flat out doing a bad job.
Since the BIG Story broke, I've been poking around. Mostly in the hopes of finding out these sorts of things are isolated, but I'm beginning to wonder.
At FOXNews, Joanne Jacobs has a round-up of some breathtaking stuff.
The Indianapolis Star published an op-ed about last week's pie assault on David Horowitz at Butler. I think the piece is supposed to be funny. It tries to make light of Horowitz contention that it was violence. When I was on Young Life staff, I told the kids if they got enough people to club, they could hit me with pies afterwards. One of them almost broke my nose. Trust me, pie throwing is violence.
Tuesday at Harvard the CIA and Dept. Of Homeland Security were recruiting and they brought protests. Here is the student newspaper news account and here is an eye-witness opinion piece from the same source. From the opinion piece:
The propagandist's techniques of disruption varied: their base tactics ranged from coughing incessantly to the point where none of the panelists could be heard, interrupting presentations to ask ludicrous questions such as "Isn't it true you train your employees to torture," staging a mock deportation of an ethnic minority protestor midway through the discussion, clapping obnoxiously to halt the dialogue, and ridiculing students who posed legitimate questions to the panelists. A protestor sitting three rows behind me physically made himself vomit.The protest itself is bad enough, but you would think students at the one of the most prestigious universities in the world would be a tad be more erudite in their self-expression. Must not be as hard to get into Harvard as everyone says.
So how did it get this bad? Judging from this story, it's because those "in charge" are just flat out doing a bad job.
A 16-year-old disabled girl was punched and forced to engage in videotaped sexual acts with several boys in a high school auditorium as dozens of students watched, according to witnesses....This is so blatant it is not even funny. This woman, and her staff, knew if they called the cops, the public would know they have no control over their school. They were willing to allow this CRIME go unprosecuted for the sake of their careers. Ugh!
...the principal, Regina Crenshaw, was suspended and will be fired for not calling police, school officials said. And three assistant principals were suspended and will be reassigned to other schools. Crenshaw had no comment Tuesday. (emphasis added)
