Teacher Beaten by Student - Principal blames teachers

[Heracles 417]

The beating of a high school art teacher by a student has prompted city and school officials to call for more resources to deal with classroom violence.

Jolita Berry, an art teacher at Baltimore's Reginald F. Lewis High School, was beaten Friday in an attack that was recorded on a cell phone camera and posted to the Internet. Berry says the attack began when she told a female student to sit down. She says the girl's friends cheered her on as the girl struck her in the face.

Berry says she is afraid to return to the classroom.

Teacher's union president Marietta English said her office receives two or three complaints a day of assaults on teachers.

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon said the problem is getting out of hand and stern discipline is needed. State Schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick called for increased character education, community partnerships and parental responsibility.

City schools officials say the student involved in the attack on Berry has been suspended.

The video showed up on the Website MySpace.com.

Berry says the principal told her that telling the student she was going to defend herself triggered the attack.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0408/510097.html

Interesting don't you say #6

Edited April 11, 2008 by Boo-Yah!

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

of course it's the teacher's fault!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The beating of a high school art teacher by a student has prompted city and school officials to call for more resources to deal with classroom violence.

Jolita Berry, an art teacher at Baltimore's Reginald F. Lewis High School, was beaten Friday in an attack that was recorded on a cell phone camera and posted to the Internet. Berry says the attack began when she told a female student to sit down. She says the girl's friends cheered her on as the girl struck her in the face.

Berry says she is afraid to return to the classroom.

Teacher's union president Marietta English said her office receives two or three complaints a day of assaults on teachers.

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon said the problem is getting out of hand and stern discipline is needed. State Schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick called for increased character education, community partnerships and parental responsibility.

City schools officials say the student involved in the attack on Berry has been suspended.

The video showed up on the Website MySpace.com.

Berry says the principal told her that telling the student she was going to defend herself triggered the attack.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0408/510097.html

Interesting don't you say #6

What's interesting about it?

[Heracles 417]

What is interesting is that kids are seriously getting out of hand. What sort of a world are we living in when kids cheer on hurting others and then film it.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's Baltimore Boo - one of the biggest problem areas in the country. This isn't surprising at all - what do you expect, its not f*cking Oxford!

Edited April 11, 2008 by Number 6

[sara..... 371]

if some of those kids had to attend school over seas for a year they would learn some respect.......they still use corporal punishment in most the schools in third world countries just the threat of it keeps most respectful ........yep i know a lot of people are not gonna like what i just said but look at the schools in the usa.........shootings.........beatings........u name it they do in the schools........what is the punishment? most the time send them home to their parents that by law can not stop the child from going anyplace.........or acting at home just like they did in the school.......yes there are abused kids but guess what the ones that are really abused u dont hear from until its too late in most cases.....the youth in the usa has shocked me since we returned home.........i hated the schools in pak because they did not teach us the curriculum that i needed to graduate in the USA high school but it did teach me respect...........sure maybe counseling has its place in raising children but i tell u what looking at my mom and knowing i could get my tonsils removed with out proper surgery if i treated her as i see other kids treating their parents made me think a long time before i ever used the f word to her.......and before anyone jumps on this nope i was not abused as a child i can remember one spanking in my life......well sort of remember it i was pretty young........but there was no room for behaving like i see a lot of kids acting here......it just was not tolerated...and i can honestly say that my younger sisters and brother feel the same way i did at that age....they have never been beaten either but we learned at a very young age what was acceptable behavior and what was not there is just to much attention put on the rights of the kids and consoling and now that im older i am respectful to her because she deserves it....... im sorry if my post offends anyone but it is how i feel about it........................................

Edited April 11, 2008 by estadia

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

They should never have pulled the funding for Bunny Colvin's project class!

[Heracles 417]

It's Baltimore Boo - one of the biggest problem areas in the country. This isn't surprising at all - what do you expect, its not f*cking Oxford!

I expect the teachers be given permission to defend themselves. Reintroduce the cane in schools, if need be.

Send them to Singapore and have them even suggest grabbing a teacher there..

Edited April 11, 2008 by Boo-Yah!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's Baltimore Boo - one of the biggest problem areas in the country. This isn't surprising at all - what do you expect, its not f*cking Oxford!

I expect the teachers be given permission to defend themselves. Reintroduce the cane in schools, if need be.

Ahem. This is a city where kids bring knives and guns to school.

If there's a solution here and to the problems of the inner city, I doubt it's in the cane.

Send them to Singapore and have them even suggest grabbing a teacher there..

Why not send them to the Ottoman Empire.

[Heracles 417]

Maybe you can go there #6 and talk to them. Tell them how you understand their plight.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Maybe you can go there #6 and talk to them. Tell them how you understand their plight.

Look I know you have hard-on for whipping people and things, but don't pretend its a magic solution to an entire city's problems. That's just ridiculous.

Edited April 11, 2008 by Number 6

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The beating of a high school art teacher by a student has prompted city and school officials to call for more resources to deal with classroom violence.

Jolita Berry, an art teacher at Baltimore's Reginald F. Lewis High School, was beaten Friday in an attack that was recorded on a cell phone camera and posted to the Internet. Berry says the attack began when she told a female student to sit down. She says the girl's friends cheered her on as the girl struck her in the face.

Berry says she is afraid to return to the classroom.

Teacher's union president Marietta English said her office receives two or three complaints a day of assaults on teachers.

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon said the problem is getting out of hand and stern discipline is needed. State Schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick called for increased character education, community partnerships and parental responsibility.

City schools officials say the student involved in the attack on Berry has been suspended.

The video showed up on the Website MySpace.com.

Berry says the principal told her that telling the student she was going to defend herself triggered the attack.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0408/510097.html

Interesting don't you say #6

What's interesting about it?

This is horrible. As a teacher, I'm pissed off about reading/hearing these stories.

[Heracles 417]

Maybe you can go there #6 and talk to them. Tell them how you understand their plight.

Look I know you have hard-on for whipping people and things, but don't pretend its a magic solution to an entire city's problems. That's just ridiculous.

I don't. But we have tried the appeasement understand their feelings BS for years now and all it continues to do is produce more violent kids. I don't need a study to see that..

Edit: And that is reality. Whether someone like you accepts it or not.

Edited April 11, 2008 by Boo-Yah!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

There's are more problems going on in the Baltimore school system or indeed in any similar inner city (Newark for example) than simply teacher's pandering to validate the feelings of students. Not least the influence of violent race gangs related to the drug trade.

Edited April 11, 2008 by Number 6

[Heracles 417]

This is horrible. As a teacher, I'm pissed off about reading/hearing these stories.

Teachers have been in the line of fire for years now. It is all good and well if someone teaches in a good area but SOL for those who teach in these poor areas.