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San Francisco Middle School Descends Into ‘Lord Of The Flies' Environment
2020-02-15
[Hot Air] Aptos Middle School is located in San Francisco and, from the outside, appears like an ordinary school. But today the San Francisco Chronicle reports a small group of disruptive students, somewhere between 5 and 20, have turned it into something reminiscent of the Lord of the Flies. And, at least so far, school authorities seem unable to do much about it:
One of the scariest incidents at Aptos this school year occurred in September, when two girls attacked a sixth-grade girl on the schoolyard. The girls pulled the sixth-grader to the ground by her hair, pulled a chunk of it out of her skull and kicked her in the face and the back of her head...

School administrators held a "restorative justice" meeting with the families of each girl. That’s the school district’s preferred way of resolving disputes, and it centers on mediation and acknowledging harm.

"There were no apologies," [the victim’s mother] said. "When asked specifically what they would do differently, the girl said, ’Well, I guess I wouldn’t have kicked her in the face.’... Those girls have approached her multiple times since then and said, ’You better keep your mouth shut, you little bitch.’"...

"It’s kind of ’Lord of the Flies’ around here," [the mother] said.

The schools previous principal and assistant principal left recently and the new principal seems to have a different view of school discipline. It has become normal for kids (ages 11 to 14) to wander through the halls, enter classes they are not in, and direct bad language at other students and teachers.

Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Interesting. This school's on the edge of a middle- to upper-middle class neighborhood that has winding streets and elegant old single-family houses that cost millions. It's about 40% Asian ie Chinese, 16% white.

This is a case of complete incompetence, cowardice and failure by the school's leadership.

Typical: California public schools are among the worst in the nation. Unbelievably shitty, weak, corrupt leadership explains much of this; demographics explains the rest.
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-15 11:44  

#5  Without discipline there can be no learning.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-02-15 11:16  

#4   unable unwilling to do much about it:

FIFY
Posted by: AlanC   2020-02-15 08:40  

#3  This is the end goal of leftist politics. They value harm reduction above all, while conservatives consider harm reduction but have other values.

They are unable to think about anything but reducing harm to black kids. If they hurt other students, it is because white people made them do it. Punishing them is seen as unjust and wrong, and they will not do it.

They'll push all of America over the edge rather than compromise. They did it in so many other countries before, we're no different.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2020-02-15 08:17  

#2  "restorative justice"

Hint #1 it's not White Privilege
Posted by: Frank G   2020-02-15 07:11  

#1  What madre won't fight like a tigre
To see her muchachxs reach G-Day?
For immigrant parents
Are fervent adherents
Of..... Fuck it, why lie? Lucha libre!
Posted by: Bugs Clatch8989   2020-02-15 06:36  

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