Ho, hum. Another sunny morning, another cup of coffee, another disgusting story about the Milwaukee Public Schools. How’s this for an idea? Shut down MPS because it sure doesn’t seem to be working.
Initiate a 13-year plan (pardon the negative connotation) to eliminate grade levels, beginning next year with kindergarten. That way, students (or are they “combatants”?) are free to find other educational solutions from the beginning. No kindergarten means no first grade the next year and so on as the children pass through (or drop out).
Parents will be responsible for vying for precious space in private schools, which don’t seem to have the level of problems that MPS does, probably because they can remove disruptive thugs. Or try home schooling. Let parents sit home with their unruly kids and see how they like it.
Good teachers will have time to look for other employment. There surely will be more entrepreneurs opening schools to replace the MPS holding tanks. Just think – no more guns, no more weapons, no more crowd control. Just lessons, homework and appropriate discussions about grades.
Teachers have been shifted from being educators to baby sitters to interim parole officers. A couple of e-mails I received noted the situation at MPS is much worse than we even know. Worse than a week with two lockdowns, a fight resulting in a staff member being knocked unconscious and a seventh-grader with a gun and ammunition? Those are only the reported incidents.
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If anyone reads jsonline.com, on a regular basis, they would see pretty frightening stories of a school district that is falling apart. I can only imagine what it’s like for families in that district. MMSD’s recent decisions of consolidation and near closures are tearing our City apart, whether they are the necessary decisions, or not. Add insult to injury, for the east side families, a new school is to be built on the west side. There has been so much focus on the budget lately, that the incomprehensible naming of the school hasn’t been in the forefront. I mean no disrespect to the Hmong community, but choosing to name a school after someone that has the reputed past that General Vang Pao does, is beyond words that I can use in this post! The explanation that the community gets is that the Board didn’t have all of this information. HOW COULD THEY NOT! I, frankly, think they did know, but had their political agenda and to (you know what) with anyone that took offense to the name! I’ve been in conversation, where people have been fearing that Madison is turning into Milwaukee. These statements were made about our City in general. The direction that our school district is heading is scary. Milwaukee’s is in more dire straits, but we are catching up!