I frequently read news article which cause me to wonder why parents keep their children in public schools. The issues might be the low expectations, the lack of learning, the wrong things the children are taught, the abuse they suffer or the complete waste of time. The list just goes on and on.
Every once in awhile I come across an article which caused me to wonder why do the teachers put up with the bureaucracy?
Joanne Jacobs has a post a ‘Sexting’ witch hunt:
----------
Told to investigate “sexting” at his Virginia high school, an assistant principal spent $150,000 defending himself from child pornography charges because he kept the evidence — a photo of a semi-nude girl found on a boy’s cell phone — on his computer. Wired has the story:
Ting-Yi Oei, a 60-year-old assistant principal at Freedom High School in South Riding, Virginia was told to see if students were exchanging sexy photos on their cell phones. He found only one example: A boy showed him a photo of a topless girl with her arms folded in front of her breasts.
----------
For following the direction from his principal, this assistant principal has been harassed and threatened with jail.
I wonder if another teachers or administrators will quit just to avoid the potential of this kind of abuse?
---------
Technorati tags: government schools, public school, public education, education
3 comments:
Oh man. Sexting is such a buzzword right now, and thus far the responses don't seem to have lead to anything good.
This is a huge issue, and extremely dangerous for the adults who get involved. As a Sunday School teacher, I feel for this guy; such charges would be devastating.
~Luke
Aloha, Henry Cate,
Simple mental inertia is among the many reasons people tolerate the State-monopoly school system. People do not clearly see an alternative. This is why new homeschoolers so often imagine that "homeschooling" means subjects and schedules.
"Simple mental inertia is among the many reasons people tolerate the State-monopoly school system."
I agree. Too many children are suffering in public schools because the parents can't think out of the box. Sad.
Post a Comment