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Commission: Hold parents responsible for problem students
TweetYOUNGSTOWN — If city schoolchildren who are repeat disciplinary offenders are a problem for the school district, perhaps their parents should start a charter school to get them out of the city system.
That’s an “alternative” to the school district considering placing those children in an alternative school setting, Jimma McWilson told the city school board Tuesday.
It would put the responsibility for correcting the behavior of those children back on the parents where it belongs, said McWilson, a member of the Community High Commission on Closing the Academic Standards Achievement Gap for Afrikan Students in the Youngstown City Schools.
McWilson said his organization will be consulting with parents of suspended students on their possible use of state vouchers to send their children to private schools, enrolling them in existing charter schools or working to start their own charter school.
He was responding to a Vindicator story last week about an ad hoc committee recently set up to review the district’s student disciplinary policies and determine if they are being fairly and evenly enforced. Creating an alternative school setting is something the committee is discussing.
For the complete story, read Wednesda's Vindicator or Vindy.com
Comments
So let me get this straight....
Government to parents -> You are not allowed to spank your children.
Result -> Children have no respect for authority.
Commission to parents -> Because you raised children who have no respect for authority, we are going to hold you accountable.
Where is government accountability here? Why not go after Children's Services for tying parents' hands?
You can still spank your kids. My teenage kids try to pull that crap all of the time, that they will call the cops if i hit them. i say go ahead. I would hope that there isnt a jury in town that would convict me for disciplining my kids. Now keep in mind, I'm talking about a spanking or a quick slap across the face when they mouth off. Not a 10 minute beat down.
....replace the administration with leaders from the prison industry...elect a few military folks to the school board
"put the responsibility for correcting the behavior of those children back on the parents where it belongs."
Teach crime at home and you will raise criminals . Teach dicipline and you will have diciplined respectful kids .
steelers_fan - I agree with you that it needs to be discipline and not abuse.
Currently the Ohio law states that spanking is illegal if it leaves bruises or other marks. That's completely fine with me, as long as a red backside isn't considered "other marks."
However, consider this direction being considered based on an article a couple of years ago here on Vindy: Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, Calif., has said such a law is necessary because spanking "victimizes helpless youngsters and breeds violence in society." Aides to Lieber have said they're still trying to work out a precise definition for spanking.
Here's the law that was being discussed: "parents in that state (California) who spank or inflict other means of corporal punishment on their children age 4 and under could be charged with a misdemeanor that carries a possible one-year jail sentence and a fine up to $1,000. Other types of punishment it would ban are slapping and hitting."
They think that spanking leads to violent behavior even though mountains of evidence shows the opposite to be true. I've noticed that when one very stupid law gets passed in one state, many other states follow like lemmings, so I wouldn't be too surprised to see it being considered in Ohio at some point in the near future.