There was so much time wasted in the Policy Subcommitte meeting last Thursday night that they had to table discussion and approval of a policy that probably would have prevented cyber contact between students and teachers.
Instead we used all the time insuring Dr. Latham's ability to micromanage any potential inspection of her work or ability. Kind of like the chickhens asking the fox permission to leave the hen house.
So we never got around to talking about Facebook. No matter, it wasn't a serious attempt to deal with anything that represented any REAL problems. I would guess if that policy would have been in place that sixth grader would have stiil brought that knife to school at least TWO times.
Facts are facts, somebody was being bullied big time. The kid with the knife was loudly announcing that he had a few inches of sharp steel power over any other person who got in his way. His behavior was flat out wrong and can't be tolerated. Then there is the other possibility. Maybe that same kid was being bullied so much he was desperate for self protection. That paints a different picture but either way it isn't pretty.
Last year's BULLYING COORDINATOR, DENNIS THOMPSON, has moved on to bigger and better things at CLASSICAL. Good for him. Just not so sure it's good for the students. You would think being Head of the CURRICULUM DEPARTMENT would keep SUE ROWE extremely busy. It must not be too taxing to do that job for a failing district because she was able to temporarily at least take on the BULLYING job. From the looks of this incident, it appears she manages this new task as well as she does her CURRICULUM job. In all fairness, she does spend a lot of time keeping her ducks in line. There is also a lot of laundry to do down at COMMERCIAL STREET and some of it is pretty dirty.
Now back to Facebook. Anyone want to friend me?
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