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well most likely these children will graduate to become convicts unfortunately which creates more expenses for taxpayers. the biggest reason for most of their behavior is a lack of a solid household and parenting skills. im sure most of them come from the bad areas of salisbury and maybe some from the good areas who just dont have a fortified strucuter set forth by parents who care. i believe the alternative schools have always been a waste of money and effort. okay lets just put all the bad kids together in one school so they can reign terror together. instead they should have created a more structured program with rules that are strictly enforced teachers should be there to teach but also involve some people who can motivate them to behave somewhat like a drill instructor. they need something or someone to show them bad behavior will not be tolerated and we wont take their crap. but unfortunately we live in a liberal country and we wonder why these things happen. this didnt happen back in the fifties or earlier why? becuase the teachers would knock the crap out of a bad kid and they wouldnt cry to their parents becuase their parents would do the same!
ReplyDeletebeat the snot out of them like in the old days.
ReplyDeleteYes, these children are teenaged hoodlums who understand society will always support them so they need no skills. They do not intend ever to have a job so why work in school? I like that they're together, though, instead of ruining every class for the kids who do try to learn. After all, the kids who are working in school will have to support these do-nothings for the next 70 or more years. Taxpayers waste money on alternative programs like Choices, pay police officers to apprehend the likes of these kids forever, pay for the jails, pay for the out-of-wedlock babies . . . and the cycle continues.
ReplyDeleteJust more kids we get to lactate, educate, and incarcerate.
ReplyDelete6:12, As a parent of one, I couldn't have said it better. I am an unarmed man by decree of the beautiful state of maryland (notice I didn'd capitalize... that would infer respect)
ReplyDeleteBarry G
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ReplyDeleteWe tried that theory once and well...you know what happened to the drill academy...
there is not much we can do...there is not a proven program out there. if they were back in schools, people would bitch and moan...we can keep them till they quit and end up in jail but the state will reduce funding for schools because of the dropout rate...
there is no right answer...
Its funny how people can write these kids off, just give up on them cause they have been labeled trouble makers by the school system...The article didn't say all the students were arrested, it said 4. As someone that use to work at a alternative school I have got to say that they should have never been created. To seperate these kids is wrong. I also like how people always associate bad kids with bad areas of a city when really the majority of bad kids come from good communities and families with both parents in the home. The problem as someone stated is an extreme lack of discipline in the home plain and simple. With all these laws that stop parents from spanking there kids, parents are left with time out as corporal punishment, which does nothing.
ReplyDeleteI posted the last comment and said 4 kids but see now it was 10. With that said though I still feel the same way these kids shouldn't be isolated. It makes no sense to try to help these kids by putting them with more of the same. I guess to stop gang violence we need to bring in more gangs?
ReplyDeleteim a high school student here in the county. you have no IDEA how bad these kids are. they are as low as you can go. imagine getting suspended over and over and over again? hitting a teacher? all of which i have witnessed. they basically arnt even worth living. they come to class and make a scene just to get sent to the office just so they can get out of the classroom.
ReplyDeleteyou really have no idea unless you actually witness it
Anon 7:48
ReplyDelete"Its funny how people can write these kids off, just give up on them cause they have been labeled trouble makers by the school system..."
Trust me, a kid isn't just labeled a troublemaker and sent to Choices. You have to ring up ELEVEN suspension days within the same school year to even get referred there. That takes at least two major suspensions (and in most cases 3). Fighting gets you what's called 5+5 days suspended - 5 from the school principal and a request for 5 more from the Board of Ed, which, believe it or not, is usually granted. And that's not enough, because that's only 10 total days. You'd have to screw up AGAIN to even get sent to Choices.
And most suspensions for class disruption, cutting class, etc., are 1-3 days, and that's only done after MULTIPLE referrals out of class (getting kicked out by the teacher), contact with parents, detentions, parent conferences, in-school suspension and Saturday School. THEN the school starts to suspends them for 1-3 days for the offenses that take place AFTER all that has occurred, unless it's a bad offense, like dropping the F-bomb on another student or teacher or verbally threatening violence. And it would take 4 3-day suspensions to get referred to Choices.
Trust me, it's the worst of the worst that gets sent to Choices. Maybe, and I mean maybe, there's a handful of kids there that simply made a few bad decisions in a short time.
Most are there for violent assaults, continual and repeated disruption of classroom instruction, or possession/sale of drugs. And again, a single suspension for any one of these won't be enough - it takes at least two.
These aren't simply bored, mislabeled kids at Choices. These are kids who are making it hard for the other 98% of kids in school to learn, and have done so repeatedly within one school year.
Don't separate them? Please!They have proven they cannot conform to behavorial and societal standards.In my opinion,after so many strikes,the school system should just expel them entirely.Sports,arts,music and other activities are underfunded but theres always money for "alternative" schools,it seems.It is unfair to expect the kids who do assimilate into society and want to learn to put up with these cretins,who probably terrorize fellow students anyways-but if they are sent to a special school and still cannot get their sh*t together then what more can be done?Make their parents and guardians pay to send them to military school.Back when I was in school,the few students who were antisocial criminals were just expelled and eventually ended up in juvie.Now it seems like they have to almost kill someone before they have to serve time.I am almost willing to bet that at least half of them have parents collecting huge SSI payments for their "disabled" children-they learn early at home that they can be rewarded for bad behavior.Make their parent(s) use these benefits to pay for military school!
ReplyDeleteAnon 7:48
ReplyDeleteHonestly your post makes you appear to be a true jackass. You don't know one bit about what you wrote.
" I also like how people always associate bad kids with bad areas of a city when really the majority of bad kids come from good communities and families with both parents in the home. "
STFU. I have taught high school six years on the shore, and even the kids at Choices wouldn't say something that ignorant. There may be SOME students at Choices with a two parent structure at home, but not many, I'd venture a guess at maybe 5%.
Your statement reminds me of the argument parents make about drop outs. "You see, my son/daughter was bored at school! Because the teachers didn't challenge him/her, she dropped out. He/she might not be book smart, but he/she is smart in other ways" STFU also!
If your kid was so bored, it should be because school is so easy that all of the assignments have been completed, not because you didn't "feel challenged."
Man, some people's stupidity pisses me off.
Merry Christmas,
mbbisnotme
The problem is these kids will get a slap on the wrist and they know it. No accountability. The laws must get more strict and the no child left behind must be revamped.
ReplyDeleteThese kids can't be expelled thanks to NCLB. The school gets a lower rating and also loses funding when they drop out.
ReplyDeleteAlternative schools are not all for 'bad' children. There are some local programs that help kids with problems other than discipline graduate. There are students with children, students who live on their own and work full time, and many more kids who have circumstances in their lives that they cannot control.
I do not think it would be much of a stretch to assume that the majority of these little a--holes come from one parent families where the one parent is the mother that has to work and receives little or no financial assistance. I get so sick and tired of seeing these kids born of mothers who have a multitude of children, many times by several different fathers. Do they even understand the meaning of contraceptives which are free and allow them to continue in their immoral way without fear of bringing another unwanted child into this world. If you can't feed them, don't breed them. And the same goes for not being able to guide them in the right direction during the growing years. The parents of these 10 misfits should be held accountable. Now I have to go take my blood pressure medicine!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBeat them and their parents too!
ReplyDeletethese "children" are being charged with a felony. they should at the very least be sent to the juvinile detention center. the charge could very well have them charged as adults and sent to the ADULT detention center.
ReplyDeleteFunny, Bad kids, bad areas, that is what I am reading from some of these posts.
ReplyDeleteAll the "kids" who were locked up were affiliated gang members, and ALL of them lived within a short distance from the CHOICES building. People of Wicomico CAN figure out 1+1=2. Wake up people, these kids will have kids, and most likely more than 3, different mothers and different fathers (baby's mama and daddy). While the rest of us work and strive for a better life for our family these "kids" are destroying everything that the Government gives them; yes thats correct I said "give", they dont work for a damn thing and never will, but you and I will work to supprt them and there children's children.
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There certainly was a place for the WCSD Drill Academy for those thought to have a slight chance to improve themselves. For those incorrigibles that will never be rehabilitated, they should build a very modest facility on Bloodsworth Island and ship them over there and let them be "gang bangers" all by themselves. Most of that ilk will never, never become productive members in our society. And what is such a shame is that in many cases it is not the fault of the kids. It is the fault of those who produced them and then threw them to the wind. Some of these women, after on child, should be "fixed". If not they just keep breeding like bunnies and the aforementioned society is saddled with the problem. Well, guess I better take another blood pressure pill
ReplyDeletegot a lot of pissed off people in this comment thread that didn't see the prayer posted above:
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It's a lot easier to write off these kids and say things like 'beat them' then it is to come to terms with their backgrounds, and understand where they are coming from.
Just remember: The vast majority of these kids are, basically, beaten dogs. A little bit of empathy from everyone would be nice.
I agree with the writer re: empathy for these criminals but they made the choice. We have all made decisions that we later regretted but hopefully we learned from them. Todays paper in Florida had a story on Chubb Small who woke up one morning when he was in the 7th grade to find a note from his mother saying that she had left. He was alone at that young age and was a prime candidate to be a "street" person but was able to rise above all this, become a high school and college football star and a great education, so it can be done. Hopefully these will learn from their mistake and if they screw up one more time it should be life in the pooper or sent to my earlier suggestion to the Bloodsworth Island habitat.
ReplyDeleteF.C.O.A
ReplyDeletefuture criminals of america.
We must protect these poor children.
Maybe they will go to salisbury state and bust out a few residents windows on a drunken spree.
Or brun down some ones house, who knows what good they may do.
God bless out little children.