Oakland to halt school suspensions for willful defiance

[Robby999 1,024]

Parris Island has a pretty good finishing school for troubled youths!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I had a friend who had a troubled daughter. She sent her across the country to a Catholic high school in the South. She managed to sneak out and do all the things she was doing back home in these new surroundings. Plus it costs a lot of money to board students. I can really see Americans funding the boarding of troubled teens. Plus, you will find most of the troubled students are in the inner cities among all of their troubled peers. It's called living in poverty. Considering the outcry I hear on here about how teachers are getting paid too much, and people just don't care to put money into education, I don't see how anyone in this country is working to solve this problem nor do they even care about the reality of these families just barely surviving. People would rather move out of the city to the suburbs and turn a blind eye to the growing population that struggles daily in low paying jobs.

Don't worry, the low paying jobs are moving to the suburbs too. There's no escape.

[Golden Gate 530]

Don't worry, the low paying jobs are moving to the suburbs too. There's no escape.

Yes, and of course it is the poor peoples' fault...following the logic of certain voters.

Edited May 19, 2015 by Golden Gate

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

So the solution isn't to, as the article suggests, try and find ways to make school work for everyone and find alternative ways to discipline children, but to just kick out all the problem kids?

That doesn't make SENSE. It's FAR better to come up with better ways to invoke actual discipline than it is to just deny an entire group of already disadvantaged kids an education.

They use to have something that worked.

Parents that would blister your #######, after the teacher blistered your #######

[Golden Gate 530]

They use to have something that worked.

Parents that would blister your #######, after the teacher blistered your #######

So what?! The past is the past. Parents still do that to some of these kids. Nowadays children have a better awareness of their rights. People used to do all kinds of things. Doesn't make it right.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Yes, and of course it is the poor peoples' fault...following the logic of certain voters.

Everything is the fault of the poor. The rich are sacrificing all but the poor just pizz it all away.