Support For a Good Teacher

We had a discussion the other day about public education, and why public schools were manifestly worse than private schools.

Someone mentioned that public schools have to take all comers. That is true, but they also manage the problems caused by the need to take “all comers,” badly.

In Norco, an English teacher has been out of the classroom for 54 teaching days because a “special needs student” in her high school, a junior, apparently threatened her. She fears for her life. The “special needs student” is back in the same classroom after a seven day suspension.

Yesterday, more than 150 students rallied for several hours on behalf of their teacher – saying that the school does not do enough to protect students and their teacher, from threats of violence.

It says something very good for the teacher that the students think that well her. It’s too bad that the administration and the school board do not, and have not done more.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=7924357