If your child feels unsafe at school, and you want them transferred to a new school, what do you think would happen?
Families say officials with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) drag their heels and even prevent transfers, further endangering their kids. 2 Investigator Dave Savini found the district has been lacking a policy to deal with this safety concern.
Since 2008-2009 school year, Edwina Meyer has been trying to get a transfer out of Scammon Elementary School, 4201 W. Henderson St. She says she feels unsafe.
“It’s terrible,” Meyer says. “It’s like so much happened in that classroom.”
She says she has witnessed multiple X-rated acts while in class.
Meyer was reportedly not alone in witnessing this behavior. Laura Flores says her daughter also witnessed the sex acts.
“My daughter was psychologically damaged by it, in the way she had nightmares, she fretted about going to school,” Flores said. “She was afraid.”
Flores and Susan Meyer, Edwina’s mother, both say that during the past two years, they wanted their daughters transferred to different schools for safety reasons. But they say school officials fought them, even though they acknowledge the sex acts occurred and fired the teacher.
Edwina Meyer says even after the teacher was fired, problems persisted. She says she was bit, inappropriately touched and she says denied access to the bathroom. Meyer says she wet herself and was forced to sit in her own urine.
“I don’t have an explanation from anybody why it’s happening,” Susan Meyer said.
She removed her daughter from Scammon and has been trying to have her placed in a new school.
The problem is there have been no official CPS policies to help students transfer when they felt unsafe.
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Unbelievable!!!! What the Hell? This kind of crap goes on in an elementary school and the teachers can't be touched, but the parents and children can be victimized? What have we come to?
You all want the problem with Unions? here is one big one!
j-mac
The problem is the unions. I generally favour their existence but in this case the law needs to come down hard. It's Chicago though, what do you expect.
My kids are going to private school if I can afford it.
Teachers unions are to blame for way to many substandard teachers being retained. Those substandard teachers are the core of the problem within the education system.
Don't get your heart set on a private school automatically being better. My step kids went to a private school and the faculty was the worst I'd ever seen.
Yeah you cite one extreme case and it's a problem everywhere. Riiiight! :roll: Bad, bad unions! We had a case in our area where a girl fabricated a sexual advance by a teacher. Thank God there was a union and he was provided legal representation. The girl admitted to making it all up.
That school system and area of the country has had problems forever and continues to have problems but that doesn't mean it's everywhere.
apdst said:Don't get your heart set on a private school automatically being better. My step kids went to a private school and the faculty was the worst I'd ever seen.
Then it was your fault for not selecting an appropriate school, or transferring them when the situation got bad. Private schools function based on market rules and so the best schools get the best demand, and in turn the most funding from tuition payees. You shouldn't have given a school your money that wasn't up to spec.
And, you're very much at fault for making assumptions about what course of action we took.
If you took them out of the school, great; if you didn't, then your critique of the school isn't relevant.
You made your market choice. If I select a private school for my kids I will investigate my options thoroughly.
If you took them out of the school, great; if you didn't, then your critique of the school isn't relevant.
You made your market choice. If I select a private school for my kids I will investigate my options thoroughly.
Yeah you cite one extreme case and it's a problem everywhere. Riiiight! :roll: Bad, bad unions! We had a case in our area where a girl fabricated a sexual advance by a teacher. Thank God there was a union and he was provided legal representation. The girl admitted to making it all up.
That school system and area of the country has had problems forever and continues to have problems but that doesn't mean it's everywhere.
Yeah you cite one extreme case and it's a problem everywhere. Riiiight! :roll: Bad, bad unions! We had a case in our area where a girl fabricated a sexual advance by a teacher. Thank God there was a union and he was provided legal representation. The girl admitted to making it all up.
That school system and area of the country has had problems forever and continues to have problems but that doesn't mean it's everywhere.
You cite one extreme positive case and suddenly unions are a good thing in every situation. Riiight :roll: Unions are always so fantastic. We had a case in our school where despite the fact that one of our teachers was highly intolerant of religion and mistreated students that had a religious background we couldn't get rid of her. Thank Goodness there was a Union there to stop us from making our school a more tolerant and fair place. The teacher even admitted to her bias.
[emphasis by bubba]Unbelievable!!!! What the Hell? This kind of crap goes on in an elementary school and the teachers can't be touched, but the parents and children can be victimized? What have we come to?
You all want the problem with Unions? here is one big one!
j-mac
Perfect market choices exist only in an economists wet dream. At the bare minimum, geographic location severely cuts down on the number of viable options, wealth is probably also a limiting factor. You also have to weigh the impact of moving schools on the kids social lives. I don't know what situation apdst was in, but it certainly wasn't a simple choice like you are making it out to be.
This is an unfortunate event in the lives of these students and their parents. It is also one experience in many highlighted to vilify unions for political gain. If we are to be honest and look at the whole picture then we must acknowledge public school teachers have no control over the myriad factors influencing a child’s scholastic performance and appetite for learning; what they had for breakfast, how much sleep they get, if they spend their spare time reading or playing video games, whether their parents smoke/drink/drug at home, etc.
Speaking as a nurse.. .. ..judging teachers based on “objective” standardized tests is like judging doctors based on how many of their patients get sick vs how many they cure. These are but "symptoms" of that which is wrong in our society on the whole. Improve our society and our schools will follow. Quit sending jobs away and denying healthcare. Contrary to the rally cry of the right, people do want to work. If the religious section of our society would do some self goverance then they would not be losing face and turning people off to that. It seems that all those who speak of how we as a society should live are not living that life themselves. It cannot be "Do as I say; not as I do" anymore. People are too saavy to have that game run on them anymore.
This is an unfortunate event in the lives of these students and their parents. It is also one experience in many highlighted to vilify unions for political gain. If we are to be honest and look at the whole picture then we must acknowledge public school teachers have no control over the myriad factors influencing a child’s scholastic performance and appetite for learning; what they had for breakfast, how much sleep they get, if they spend their spare time reading or playing video games, whether their parents smoke/drink/drug at home, etc.
Speaking as a nurse.. .. ..judging teachers based on “objective” standardized tests is like judging doctors based on how many of their patients get sick vs how many they cure. These are but "symptoms" of that which is wrong in our society on the whole. Improve our society and our schools will follow. Quit sending jobs away and denying healthcare. Contrary to the rally cry of the right, people do want to work. If the religious section of our society would do some self goverance then they would not be losing face and turning people off to that. It seems that all those who speak of how we as a society should live are not living that life themselves. It cannot be "Do as I say; not as I do" anymore. People are too saavy to have that game run on them anymore.
This is an unfortunate event in the lives of these students and their parents. It is also one experience in many highlighted to vilify unions for political gain. If we are to be honest and look at the whole picture then we must acknowledge public school teachers have no control over the myriad factors influencing a child’s scholastic performance and appetite for learning; what they had for breakfast, how much sleep they get, if they spend their spare time reading or playing video games, whether their parents smoke/drink/drug at home, etc.
Speaking as a nurse.. .. ..judging teachers based on “objective” standardized tests is like judging doctors based on how many of their patients get sick vs how many they cure. These are but "symptoms" of that which is wrong in our society on the whole. Improve our society and our schools will follow. Quit sending jobs away and denying healthcare. Contrary to the rally cry of the right, people do want to work. If the religious section of our society would do some self goverance then they would not be losing face and turning people off to that. It seems that all those who speak of how we as a society should live are not living that life themselves. It cannot be "Do as I say; not as I do" anymore. People are too saavy to have that game run on them anymore.
This is an unfortunate event in the lives of these students and their parents. It is also one experience in many highlighted to vilify unions for political gain. If we are to be honest and look at the whole picture then we must acknowledge public school teachers have no control over the myriad factors influencing a child’s scholastic performance and appetite for learning; what they had for breakfast, how much sleep they get, if they spend their spare time reading or playing video games, whether their parents smoke/drink/drug at home, etc.
Speaking as a nurse.. .. ..judging teachers based on “objective” standardized tests is like judging doctors based on how many of their patients get sick vs how many they cure. These are but "symptoms" of that which is wrong in our society on the whole. Improve our society and our schools will follow. Quit sending jobs away and denying healthcare. Contrary to the rally cry of the right, people do want to work. If the religious section of our society would do some self goverance then they would not be losing face and turning people off to that. It seems that all those who speak of how we as a society should live are not living that life themselves. It cannot be "Do as I say; not as I do" anymore. People are too saavy to have that game run on them anymore.
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