Joe,
I have a family person who works at Wicomico High. For 2 days they have been under threat of gun violence and possible gun located within the school. If you look around at 3PM. There are over 8 sheriffs in the proximity to that school. This has been completely hidden by the BOE and local media. Many of these children are in fear and in serious danger from Gang and youth violence and the people who pay the bills do NOT even know. Something needs to be researched soon. Incidents go on at this school at least every 2 weeks and the tax payer, the Parents or parents, most do not know.
I have a family person who works at Wicomico High. For 2 days they have been under threat of gun violence and possible gun located within the school. If you look around at 3PM. There are over 8 sheriffs in the proximity to that school. This has been completely hidden by the BOE and local media. Many of these children are in fear and in serious danger from Gang and youth violence and the people who pay the bills do NOT even know. Something needs to be researched soon. Incidents go on at this school at least every 2 weeks and the tax payer, the Parents or parents, most do not know.
Let the cops do their job. Panicking the parents and the tax payers whenver there's a threat would only inflame the situation.
ReplyDeleteObvious question is why are the schools, police, local government WBOC, WMDT and the Daily Times not telling us about this? Time to stop protecting these heathens and sent the scum away!! If enough people barrage all of the above named parties with calls maybe we'll finally start getting true news stories around here.
ReplyDeleteWhen both societies share the same space you will always have trouble. The problem isnt going away anytime soon I dont believe.
ReplyDeleteThis all stems from the "jumping" that happened and the shots fired at the house in retaliation on Tilghman and Isabella. My children go to WiHi just about every day this week there have been fights in the school all related to these incidents. One day a parent falsely gained access to the school and physically beat one of the children who was involved.School staff pulled the adult off this student. I have been told if I keep my children home they will be considered unexcused absences.A teacher told me they actually thought about closing the school for a few days to lets some of this die down. And to the people who say no gangs are in salisbury speak with some of the students who go to this school.
ReplyDeleteour son, a Bennett student, mentioned at dinner there's crazy stuff going on at Wi-HI.
ReplyDeleteIt's always amazed me that the parents and employees at the other schools are usually kept in the dark about this type of activity. As taxpayers and as family with loved ones in the schools, why is it always such a secret? I would want to know if my child was in that school, and others do too! What is the Board of Education afraid of? Get these kids/gangs out of the area and put away where they will not harm anyone! Quit putting them back on the streets to harm anyone else.
ReplyDeletePoster #1, you sound like a BOE official.
ReplyDeleteyes, the last poster is the same info that I have. There are students causing this problems who are coming back from alternative school (reintegration) and causing these problems within the week of being back. drugs are peddled in the classroom. people NEED to KNOW
PS, if kids in the school are scared and going home early, there IS cause for CONCERN!
Unfortunately kids can't be "expelled" anymore. They just get shifted to another school to cause trouble.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that this is being kept a secret makes me wonder about the judgement of the administration.
I have a child at WiHi, he is a little scared about the things going on over there. However, I must say... I did receive a brief email from the principle advising there has been some recent violence and they are doing their best to control it. I will say I knew all of this first because of LEO in our family and my son told us prior to the school.
ReplyDeleteI am involved in my childs activities, but not to the point of knowing the principle personally. So why would I have received and email and other parents not? (other than the obvious, that they dont have a good email on file for you)
2:07 - Agree! If the kids in school are scared then there IS cause for CONCERN
ReplyDelete#1 priority is Safe Schools. The BOE cries they need community backing, then let the community know about this. How is a community to suppose to back their schools if we don't know what is going on? Dr F, get your head out of China and DO SOMETHING!!! Your system is falling apart and you are more worried about your public appearances. Board President needs to get tough and stand up for the community and not back the Super all the time!!!!!
one refreshing statement in these comments. At dinner our son told us, They all eat together and I would venture to say that they do other things together and that they have no problems other than a normal family. A lot of kids don't have dinner or do anything with the family. It all starts in the home. And my I say thank you to that family.
ReplyDeleteHome schooling or private schools with vouchers is the answer. These thugs are here to stay. No major changes will happen until someone dies.
ReplyDeleteWhen I went to WI HI is was mostly whites very few blacks but as time went by the neighborhood of Church Street became all blacks and gangs came in to play. The neighborhood has alot to due with the school issues.It used to be a White middle class school and neighborhood now look at it YUCK!
ReplyDeleteSchools were one of my wife and I biggest concerns when we bought this home 12 years ago, we moved to Delaware. Took about five years before I felt like a Delawarian, I quess at heart a little piece of me will always be a Fruitland boy.
ReplyDeleteI am a taxpayer and quite frankly I am disgusted that a certain group of kids are ruining classes for the other students who want to learn. I do not have children; however, as a taxpayer I demand that something be done about this immediately!! The police, faculty and students know which students are involved. Here's an idea. Snatch the ones out of the classes that are causing the problems and say good bye. I'm not paying taxes for us to just simply sit back and allow this type of violence in our schools. It is an outrage. Get these losers out of the school. Expel their worthless butts and move on.
ReplyDelete..And Wi Middle isn't much better...The administration does not stand behind the parents, they dont communicate with us either...I honestly believe they are scared of alot of the kids...The Board needs to better pick what principals and vice principals they put in these schools...Wi Middle has some of the worse...
ReplyDeleteI agree with 2:33 - when will the BOE make everyone aware of what is going on so they can have community backing? I have grandchildren in that school and I don't like one little bit what goes on there but when folks cannot afford to send their children to private schools, what other choice do they have? Why does all media ignore this stuff - we know it's going on so put the story out there so we can get it straight - WBOC, WMDT, Daily Times you always, always let us know what goes on in Delaware, whether we care or not. Start doing some leg work right here in Salisbury for a change and give us the hometown stories.
ReplyDeleteWi-Hi has been the dump of the BOE for years -- can't have those thugs at Bennett or Parkside, right!
ReplyDeleteLook at the physical different -- portable classroomes, etc. -- it's "the other side of the tracks" and has been for years.
Face it integration has had the opposite effect of what we were told! There I said it but it had to be said.
ReplyDeleteI live in Delmar specifically for the high school. I paid more for my house, but it is worth it. Those of you who want a better education for your child(ren) should do the same if you are able. That being said, my taxes are a lot higher in Delmar than yours and this is kind of a case of getting what you pay for mixed with some buyer beware.
ReplyDeleteWhy has this turned to white and black... there are white kids in gangs too! This is half the problem... these comments about "Integration" ad "when I went to school there it was all white". Maybe thats why there is so much violence, growing up with these thoughts!!
ReplyDeleteIf you are truly so upset then send your kids to privet school.But know you won't do that you just want to bitch & mone what is everyone doing for me. Take some responsibilty for yourself people.Oh and don't tell me you cant afford it it's just not a priority.
ReplyDeleteIs it now time for a elected School Board?
ReplyDeleteFace it. Blacks are the problem. Ask the kids, they will tell you. Nuff said.
ReplyDeleteAgreed with 5:03 p.m. Since when did this become a white/black issue. Ignorance still reigns in Wicomico County.
ReplyDeleteCouple of comments I would like to make
ReplyDeleteIf you can see police cars all over patroling the area...its not a secret!
Second, this is not just an issue with WiHi, all the schools have similiar problems. The whole community has similiar problems! It is just being carried over to the schools. Same problems show up in the other city schools all the time - couple of years ago Bennett High had fights everyday!
Keeping your kids out of school is not the answer. You probably had the same amount of people holding guns/weapons the last time you went to Walmart! You can't hide in your house. Get involved with your neighbors, make the best life for your family you can. Set an example for a good life!
5:03 PM
ReplyDeleteOr maybe because the statements are true.
Saying it's not nice or not pc to say it doesn't make the problems go away.
Denial like this is half the problem. There, we made a whole problem.
1:39 PM
ReplyDeleteHow long do we have to wait?
I am a Wi Hi parent and I recieved phone call and an email about the recent activity at the school.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, if you guys knew anything at all you would know that Parkside High School has had the most Disciplinary problems than any of the high schools in Wicomico, second of all, I dont know about some of you parents, but If you are a Wicomico High School parent and you do not know what is going on then you are really behind on things. The rest of the area it is none of your business, the threat was obviously bogus and Administration there is handling things. Fights will happen regardless of the school or the age. If a Student is saying they are a gang member then they need to have harsher punishment for them.
ReplyDeleteFact - until this week, Bennett and Parkside have had more violence then WiHi in the last few years. Get some numbers- we may have more of a "minority" mix but the majority of our kids are great young people. We had the fewest number of fights and referrals -I believe that it is a more tolerant and understanding place becausee we do have an aprox. 50 -50 mix and kids have learned that bad people come in all colors. (3:37, you are a fool - today's issue just happened to be a white kid) Parents were notified of what occured earlier this week and yes - we are very much on concerned and aware.
ReplyDeleteAnother WiHi employee
I live in the county and pay taxes it is my business.
ReplyDeleteWe must use an elected school board in order to eliminate "alternative" schools for those who do not want to be educated. The answer for these criminals is give them two choices before they get to this point. 1.Military 2. Jail these alternative schools work for many decades and the problem children/adults have only gotten worse and there are more of them now than ever!
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to know know is why a new Bennet HS was was built. Does Salisbury need three high schools? They Should have built a new HS for the East Wicomico students in Willards for those students instead of bussing them to Parkside. Then they could have redistributed the overcrowing at Bennett to Parkside. Makes no sense to me to have 3 highschools in one city. The East Wicomico HS could serve Parsonsburg, Pittsville, Willards and Powwelville.
ReplyDeleteIf you think WiHi and Wi Middle are bad, check out the schools that "feed" into those schools- East Salisbury and Beaver Run. Once you check into these schools, only THEN will you see how much behavior is truly hidden from the public! Some of the most awfully-behaved kids come from there and the Church Street area! The staff's hands are tied and you can't expel those kids. You don't even KNOW what's going on, that's for damn sure.
ReplyDelete16 year old with guns..thugs running the steets shooting up hard working people..ya its about race but not all the apples are bad just the ones from broken homes ..father less, dont want to learn want it all now slinging dope is a better deal for em..So does ot take a village to raise a child or not you bumbling liberal fools..you have done this to our society..how
ReplyDelete1- taken prayer out of school
2- editing books for PC
3- creating useless wasteful burancracies
4- Sucking all the school dollars with teachers unions BOE who have liberal agendas
5- Parents who think thier kids do nothing wrong
6- no respect for elders
7- no more golden rule comandments, respect for the constitution
8- mtv, 16 n pregnant,
etc etc boy i am glad i dont have kids in this day and age..
They have almost completed the brainwashing of your children. Just keep your punk assed hoods away from me...
I am not going to sugar coat this to save the feelings of a few. The fact is gangs are running the school. This problem has been festering for a long time. The Salisbury City Council and Tilghman as well as the former Chief of police A. Webster sat and denied the the facts for way to long. The problem exstends to the county as well. The police are short staffed and under funded to fight this problem.
ReplyDeleteSo where do we start. There is no time now to point the finger. There is only time to become proactive. The city has become a cess pool of crime and gangs. It is like cancer it just grows and does more damage to our children and the community.
The local political heads and police better get a plan together and soon. I am sorry if I sound unsympathetic when i say i really do care if a thug kills another thug. It is the children of all colors that suffer at the hands of these domestic terrorist.
We can all post all the complaints we wnat to but the fact remains the same. If we as a society dont say enough is enough nothing will happen. We need an elected school board that hears the people voice.
The failure to place these thugs out of a setting that openly allows them to prey upon good kids is outrageous.
The Sheriff of this county needs to take a zero tolorence approach to these criminals. The juvenile justice system needs to work with police not agianst them. This liberal mind set has destroyed the effectiveness of law enfourcement as a whole. We now reep the penalty for looking the other way.
I am disgusted with the board of ed. No thug left behind mantra. It has created a genration of thugs that roam an educational setting with no repect to teachers, police ,or fellow students.
When a child dies it is to late to start the war. The gang members are no better then pedophiles they prey on the innocent children trying to make it at life. They inflict fear in teachers and students alike.
Maybe the old D.R.I.L.L. Academy was not so bad after all. It appears the former Sheriff had a bit more foresight then he was given credit for. The extereme setting may be just what the doctor ordered for these thugs. Now where do we house them. The answer is in our class rooms.
Webster and Tilghman have a large portion of this crap on thier shoulders as far as I am concerned. As well as the Board of Education. The Cpunty Council needs to bow thier heads in shame as well. The stick your head in the sand and hope it goes away attitude has come back to bite us all in the arse.
I think I have again cast a vote for a bunch of spineless jellyfish who are full of talk and no action.
One disgusted tax payer.
3:37 and 5:31, how about joining the rest of us here in the 21st century? Learn how to function among, and relate to, actual human beings. Make the effort; you'll be glad you did!
ReplyDeleteThis is what you get when a village raise's a child, teach em how to use a condom , tell em their is no god and bend over anytime any one says its for the children..well that well has run dry all you liberal lefty mental cases..(ie BOE) you social experiment has exploded in your face...
ReplyDeleteAmen
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I am a WiHi Graduate from the 1980's and the racial slurrs and old boy mentality needs to be gone. I left the area and came back 20 years ago and wicomico county is still ignorant to white/black issues. You wonder why so many things are happening well take a look at ourselves as parents IF WE ARE BAD LEADERS THAN SO WILL OUR KIDS! There are bad white, blacks, hispanic, korean, you name any culture there is good and bad in it. ITS A SHAME THAT HISTORY KEEPS REPEATING ITSELF WITH IGNORANCE! AND YES I ALLOWED MY 17 YEAROLD TO READ THESE COMMENTS FROM GROWN ADULTS. NO wonder there is so much hatered in the schools! LOOK AT US AS PARENTS!
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ReplyDeleteThen they could have redistributed the overcrowing at Bennett to Parkside
Hey dude Parkside is bursting at the seems thats why JMB was built bigger. Maybe we should send the east side kids to WiHi. They have more room for more students.
WOW! As an educator I know that there are a lot of hurting children. Kids that have been physically and emotionally abused...kids that don't trust adults because they have been hurt and let down over and over again...but these are still KIDS! So as the adults, we should be coming together to come up with solutions. Throwing the "thugs" out will not rehabilitate the child. Too many people in this area only care for themselves! A community is concerned for all their memebers..so okay Salisbury what is the plan to help save the youth? Whether you all realize it or NOT they are still our future. We can cry and complain or put on our big boy pants, roll up our sleeves and help make a difference! How many people on this blog mentor kids or make donation to youth programs? Be the change you want. I have 2 mentees ane currently 3 youth programs that I am very involved in. WHAT DO YOU DO?
ReplyDeleteI attended Private School, then public school. Wi-Hi to be exact. I graduated 20 years ago and there were plenty of others races in school then. The difference was even though kids fought, that was all they did. They would go across the street have a five minute fight and it was over with. They did not feel the need to carry guns. Most of these so called pathetic gang members in Salisbury are cowards. But as far as the schools I wish it was the way it was in my Catholic School. If you acted out you got a yard stick across your butt from a nun. But guess what we didn't have any violence or problems. Now I'm sure we are going to hear from a bunch a people crying about how awful it is and you can't abuse children like that. But you know what, it worked!
ReplyDeleteYeh just like it ok to search granny from Omaha instead of a muslim..the PC is getting old..we have a problem the bulk of the problem lies in the africain american community. Grant you whity continues to keep him down by subjecting allot of broken famlies to a life of welfare which penilizes you if you married hence all the fatherless children who dont have the proper guidance
ReplyDeletea justice system that is a joke, failing education system and useless politicians. My tax dollars at work or better yet my tax dollars failing to fix this mess and I sick and tired of all of it...
7:35 I pay my taxes, and I know allot of good kids but we have a element that is eatiat the foundations of the education system and it starts at the BOE and ends at the parents
ReplyDelete757 you are correct "thugs" are still someones child or baby! However, sometimes we can raise our children and dont know how they will turn out but we have to be able to offer them the best! Yes it is hard but we have to keep plugging along until one issue at a time is solved. We can not blame anything on black and white anymore!!!! If the truth be told we all have drama in our family and not necessary "thugs" sometimes our kids react to US as parents and leaders in Society! Stop transferring issues to other schools ....Trust me Parkside and Bennett have their issues you just dont hear about them!!! Recently I do believe that an older (gang member) portrayed himself as a student at Bennett to get to one of the kids! So these "Gangs" or "Gangettes" are all around. Sometimes the "why" does not matter but "how to" does!
ReplyDeleteAMEN 7:57
ReplyDeleteJoe you want to make another (salvation army) difference in Salisbury our schools are in need of mentors. We have more children who need mentors then we have mentors. This would be a great charge to take on. Folks call a school or the BOE and sign up to make a difference in someones life. These thugs need love. Maybe the love they get by you will keep them in school and be a successful student.
Being nice won't do a thing somebody needs to grow a pair and get control of the school! The gangsters don't want to be there send them to military school.
ReplyDeleteTo 7:o6 PM. I do live in the 21st century. The problem does exist and it will not change until you accept it. If you or I do not address it,or face up to it the issue remains. If you can tell me what I can do to correct the problem, I will surely try. There are many, many, good black kids out there. But the gang problems in the schools, are primarily black. Get over it. It's the way it is.
ReplyDelete8:57, you are correct that "it's the way it is." We try to be so politically correct, but we need to call it as it is. Much of the prblem does lie with the Church St. area, and most of that area is black. When an angry 16-year-old decides to exact revenge for a wrong done to him and shoots at a bunch of kids in front of a house, that kid is already beyond help. I'm not sure what the solution is, although many have been proposed in these remarks. A high school kid is probably beyond mentoring (I taught high school for over 30 years).
ReplyDeleteI think most of us would agree that parenting--or lack of parenting--is the root of much of the problem. How are we supposed to change that? These gang members, by and large (Of course there are exceptions)have had no one to teach them what is right. Their parents were often raised the same way, and their kids will be raised to believe in violence, and the cycle will continue.
I think that the short-lived Drill Academy was a very good idea. The alternative school does almost nothing to change the person. As soon as he returns to school, he takes up where he left off; in fact, he probably picked up some new ideas while there.
Many of the remarks above have merely been pointing fingers or trying to make PHS or JMB out to be worse than Wi-Hi. Does it really matter? The problem won't be solved by arguing about which school is the worse.
Probably 7:00 has the best remarks. He/she suggests a number of specific ways we can combat the problem. I'm all for the "zero tolerance" position, enforced by the Sheriff's Department. Quite a number of the remarks here have obviously been made by those who have no clue what today's school is like. Some are all for coddling the kids or spouting "It takes a village" cliche. We better come together very soon and figure out how to combat the issue of violent schools; if we don't, God help us all.
Parents, do you know where your kids are RIGHT NOW? I am so tired of the public being expected to be tollerant of bullies and thugs. there's always an excuse. Kids who make good choices and want to learn are suffering. It isn't fair.
ReplyDeleteReading these comments I now understand why the youth that walk through my classroom door act and talk the way they do. It is not as easy as expelling them to solve the situation. And for those of you who think being nice is not the answer, i challenge you to try. I can tell you that I see students walk through my door involved in things they shouldn't be and witha reputation to uphold. Because i've shown them that I care about what they do in and out of school, I do not have the issues in my room, and those students tend to have the same behavior through out the day because I check up on them and show them I care. They can behave and will so long as they know they are understood. Now, we can't go home with them or take them home so we only hope we've taught them enough to make the correct decisions when they leave the school doors, because when they go home, most of them are taking care of their families and living without a true parent figure. They are children, they won't always make the right choice.
ReplyDelete@8:57 If you have evey spent time with those "kids" from "Church" street some of them are the sweetest wither black or white. Some of them only want a warm bed and a good education and someone to just love on them. However I know for a fact its not just "Church Street" quit sterotyping! Gangs are in the best neighborhoods and some go unreported because of the parents title in the community! Church street is not ALL BLACK! I have served the homeles over there and of those kids are from all walks of life along with their parents and I have served some of THE PEMBERTON area at the homeless shelter SO STOP PUTTING A TAG ON IT. Gangs are everywhere!
ReplyDelete9:58 Have you ever listened to a heart of a child who wants change? I used to go to East Salisbury, back in the late 1970's and Church Street was considered "Nisdale". However, the "good, the bad and ugly" all went to East Salsibury and Wicomico Middle to Wi Hi! I grew up with alot of those kids and I lived over by Billy Gene Park (the new Salvation army). I remember racism (no different than today and probably worse today). Wicomico County has never changed its mentality! Wicomico County has changed through the years only because different walks of life have come through to try and change it...Tell me What Good is it if the CHILD changes but the community does not?
ReplyDelete10:09 You are correct the children wont always make the right choices...Lets just FACE it some of our Parents have not made the right choices...and that includes me! But I changllege my child to change and not to do what I did!
ReplyDeleteI'm not rich, but I have not once regretted writing a check to send my son to The Salisbury School. He is getting a great education and is safe.
ReplyDeleteRace IS an issue when the administration is afraid to punish non-white kids for fear of being sued for discrimination.There,I said THAT.Tell me it isnt true because I know different.All colors of kids act up,sure, but not all are equally punished.
ReplyDeleteAnd it DOES start young.My child is in elementary school and sadly when I go there for school functions I can look around and tell which kids are not going to amount to anything by their behavior.
When you are stealing and fighting EVERYDAY at FIVE,you are dysfunctional and doing nothing but taking up space.It is not up to the school to properly raise these children.My child and other straight A students like her get harassed constantly by the same bad kids who are disclipined on a daily basis too.Funny thing is, when its a minority kid acting up the teachers and admin " dont see" anything.Another child stole something from my kid last yr and when he confessed the school did absolutely nothing.Wonder why? Guess!They do not want an angry single mother siccing the NAACP on them.
Political correctness gone crazy.....I dont care if the kid is black white or Mexican if they cant conform and act human they need to be booted so good kids can learn.If repeated school discipline doesnt do the trick call DHS on the parents and find out why they are failing so miserably as parents.
PS-Out of a class of 24 kids,my kid is one of a handful with BOTH parents in the home.Thats also one of the problems with these kids.
Race IS an issue when the administration is afraid to punish non-white kids for fear of being sued for discrimination.There,I said THAT.Tell me it isnt true because I know different.All colors of kids act up,sure, but not all are equally punished.
ReplyDeleteAnd it DOES start young.My child is in elementary school and sadly when I go there for school functions I can look around and tell which kids are not going to amount to anything by their behavior.
When you are stealing and fighting EVERYDAY at FIVE,you are dysfunctional and doing nothing but taking up space.It is not up to the school to properly raise these children.My child and other straight A students like her get harassed constantly by the same bad kids who are disclipined on a daily basis too.Funny thing is, when its a minority kid acting up the teachers and admin " dont see" anything.Another child stole something from my kid last yr and when he confessed the school did absolutely nothing.Wonder why? Guess!They do not want an angry single mother siccing the NAACP on them.
Political correctness gone crazy.....I dont care if the kid is black white or Mexican if they cant conform and act human they need to be booted so good kids can learn.If repeated school discipline doesnt do the trick call DHS on the parents and find out why they are failing so miserably as parents.
PS-Out of a class of 24 kids,my kid is one of a handful with BOTH parents in the home.Thats also one of the problems with these kids.
And if I hear "it takes a village" or "mentoring" one more time,I am gonna puke all over my keyboard."Hug a Thug" is BS. All the mentors and feel good do good social programs DO NOT work as long as the kid is in the same home and environment.Dont criticize us parents who DO our job as parents and dont expose our kids to drugs,baby daddys and abuse.
1040p yes you have a point. However I beg to differ because most black kids are punished and if it does go unoticed perhaps maybe the teacher needs to learn about everybodys culture. I did. Just because you Judge a 5 year old and can tell if he or she may make it....you can be very wrong. If you look at the outside of a child and never the heart or the gift of the child than you are judging! You probably were not the best kid either...however someone either prayed for you or kept on molding you! I learned the hard way.."Never judge a Book by its Cover!
ReplyDelete1040 Also you are correct yes they are stealing and fighting @ 5 because they have not been taught. However it does not have to be about drugs or gangs but simply behavior. "Case and Point" I used to be a teachers aide a an elementary school some years ago I worked with a few "Caucausin kids" one was abused by her mother and she thought touching her was a way of getting attention! The other one use to kick and spit and call me that "black MF Teacher" and to take it a little further the "N" word" Now what do you think they would turn out to be IF JUDGED by the OUTSIDE! Glad to say that the young lady now has gotten a grip on life and is preparing for College...the boy well I guess his parents taught him "White is always right"! no matter the cost!
ReplyDelete1040 and 1047 I am not punishing you for training your child correct! However again you can raise a child but you never now how they will turn out! I must say I am willing to change for the better but if the "Old Boy Mentality" You know once again I had left the area to put myself through college and married 20 years later we come back and still the County is the same. Wicomico has never moved forward as a whole! We wonder why families move here and than leave abruptly, well there it is. Anyway I am praying for the familys all around and pray for peace. I will tell you if we dont change our stinking thinking as adults we would have already lost many generations on the Eastern Shore. Peace!
ReplyDeleteSorry for the double post!
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:55 that kid who called you "N" word probably learned that crap at home too.My kid has biracial cousins and she has been taught from an early age not to be prejudiced,unfortunately the world IS prejudice.She wont hear that word at home,and if she repeats it from someone else she better run from me.I will not tolerate it.Only crude low class people use that word.
I dont mean to condemn kids but when you stab another kid with a pencil in 2nd grade and you have to go to special ed because you are violent,you just dont belong with other children.Mentoring is noble but if you send the kid back into the same dysfunctional environment that molded them it is all for nought.
6:45
ReplyDeleteI have always wondered why they didn't build a High School on the eastside of Wicomico County. Think of how much money they could have saved in gas/diesel.
The administrators try to keep referals to a minimum so they aren't labeled as persistently dangerous school by the state. I have worked in a school where the principal has said they weren't allowed to suspend any more African American students since they had so many more AA students suspeneded than white students. Problems are absolutely covered up in the schools. Too much time is wasted in the classroom dealing with disruptive students who don't want to learn.
ReplyDeletePoverty & poor parenting are at the heart of many of the matters discussed here. Whether you allow the streets, the internet, or television to raise your children, it is all the same thing...absentee parenting.
ReplyDeleteI see no difference in the moron that does nothing when his/her child roams the street with gangs than the idiot parents in Colorado who had no idea their children were sawing off shot guns and making pipe bombs in their own homes, (Columbine).
Again, it is absentee parenting...more government isn't the answer, more programs are not the answer as that tends to breed learned helplessness. I don't know what the answer is, I am just sending this out with a prayer that we as a community can figure it out before it is too late.
I think we should start with church street. Ride down church street at 10:00pm with a m-16 and shoot everyone standing around.
ReplyDeleteThen pick another street that is a problem and do the same.10:55 , lets see how many blacks go down with drugs versus whites.
Look at the jails , 75%to 95% black with a 30 percent population base. Get your head out and face facts , you had your chances , now it's over.
Seriously? The number one concern should be the safety of your children. Not whether this is a white/black problem or because the administration doesn't communicate to the parents. Gangs are everywhere. I believe Wicomico county already has a zero tolerance for gang related activities. If so, they need to enforce their own rules! To the parents who are complaining that the school and BOE do not communicate with them.... If you have a problem call the office, call the BOE. Go in person to find out what is being done. Tell them your opinion and what you think should be done before something horrible happens.
ReplyDeleteWhen I see a child misbehaving I automatically blame the parents for not teaching the child how to behave. I teach my child to the best of my ability how to behave and knowing the difference between right and wrong and to always to whats right.
Please tell me they have searched the school and each childs bookbag for this supposed gun?!
Progressive punishment:
ReplyDelete1. Stocks and pillories.
2. Add caning to above.
3. Incarceration.
4. Public hanging.
It worked for our forefathers, it will work today.
The public schools here are horrible, look at the liberals that run them, the only ideas that the schools stand for is that it is ok to have a white girlfriend with a baby and Johnny has two daddies! And don't dare say Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteMan, you can tell who are the liberal educators. Every kid needs help right? WHAT about my child who gets slowed down, walks around in fear, who tries and does make the good choices. These thug kids do NOT just make One bad choice. the problem children KEEP making them. "Reintegration" is not black and white. it where they keep putting the Alternative kids in school to fix them. You cant fix and alcholic, they fix themselves. when will liberals get that? certain children will not change b/c they CHOOSE not too.
ReplyDeleteto my last point, when these problem children are suspended, they get 5 days EXCUSED. why? because that makes their $$$ numbers for children passing their grade and good attendance. it is ABOUT MONEY. Challenge the Superintendent or board to say otherwise. In my school day, 5 day suspension was near failure, NOT anymore, cause the Board wants the $. Follow the money people. It really is not about HELP for one person or another
As a former employee of WCBOE, I know for a fact that staff members were told by school administration to lay off the office referrals for certain ethnic persuasions. This was several years ago.
ReplyDeleteNo kidding. Because the numbers were "way high" and it "looked bad" Of course the real problem lies with the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND act. This pretty much dictates that if ALL the kids in your school don't pass the standardized testing that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has chosen, then you LOSE MONEY!! Yep, no dollars if they all don't pass. The deadline 2012..only a year away to make 100% of students pass or no monies. The act was passed with very limited funding available to support it. That said, monies come to schools based on the numbers attending...SOO, if you lose a student by expulsion, you lose dollars. Financial backing by the good ole US GOVT is based upon your school enrollment numbers you betcha!
So, teachers are having to teach kids to pass a test to keep their jobs, but how can you teach the 90% in your class that want to learn, when there is 10% that just don't care and cause the disturbances in your classroom. You cannot pay teaching staff enough money to teach today, that's for sure!!
I also feel that there is a total lack of respect for ANY authority today, and THAT starts at home. The kids imitate the parents.
Until there is a respect for authority,and the knowledge that the government won't be supporting me when I turn 18 so I better do well in school, graduate and GET A JOB, it will continue. With any race, for that matter.
The Schools, Police, Local Govt., WBOC, WMDT and the Daily Times would become targets of the gang if they report it or do a story on any of it. With the threat of the gang making them a target for any media coverage or details of any gang actions by Police or anything the media tells the public about how to stay safe they stay quite in fear.
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I know for a fact that
ReplyDeletelol Everytime I see or hear that statement I know they are full of crap. Usually the opposite is true and they are wrong.
WOW! I think the power has been taken from the administration and given to the children. If the kids today could REALLY get in trouble at school, and then face the consequences at home as well, we wouldn't have these problems. When I was in school if we got in trouble there it was worse when we got home. We were expected to behave and faced consequences if we didn't. Kids don't have any consequences now....because their feelings might get hurt. Remember when Field Day had winners and loosers? Now everyone "wins". What a load of crap we are teaching this generation. "Life" doesn't care if your feelings might get hurt so why don't we prepare kids from early on? Shame on us America.
ReplyDelete10:34, i'm with you. i'm far from rich either, but my money is best spent at this time on a safe environment and education. i never intended to send my child to public school and never will.
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ReplyDeleteHow about you join them and the rest of us in reality. What they said was a simple fact that most are afraid of saying because some will say it's racist.
If it is, but it is also the truth. Like it or not.
There should be more private schools available. I am sure they would have no problem with enrollment. We drive 2 old cars so our kids can attend private school but that is the choice we made and have not regretted it at all.
ReplyDeleteLet me 1st say this is really ridiculous. My son was one of the kids that got jumped by over 30 boys for no reason. He is not involved in gangs or any other confusion. He was scared because 30 boys jumped him and 7 of his friends, this included girls--all they wanted to do was take a walk and go to the park. These OTHER kids had guns, sticks, chains ect. As for the person that left the statement that a parent went in the school and grabbed and assaulted one of the students is a lie. I was there. The child that was assaulted is a gang member that was involved in the jumping the night before--so theres the facts. These kids that got jumped do not want to talk and if they fight back they are expelled because of it. My son is expelled right now for fighting back one of his attackers and let me tell you I understand fighting is wrong. How would you feel as a parent if your child was in this situation and had to sit all day with these gang members in each class and look at them knowing what they did to them? They would be VERY upset. This is a bigger problem than people think and the school is sweeping it under the rug, saying they will handle it--i haven't seen them do a thing but punish my son for being upset over the attack that he felt helpless in. Fighting in school is not right and I am not trying to justify it, but when you have to go to school with these kids all day and look them in their faces with fear of retaliation how would you feel??? I am kind of relieved that my son is expelled. I dont want him going back to that school EVER again, because as a parent my job first and foremost is to protect my child. I would rather home school him than to have him suffer in the face of his abusers every day. People this is a serious matter in WICOMICO HIGH AND WICOMICO MIDDLE. These kids do have weapons and have no problem using them. PARENTS BE INFORMED!!!! I would not want this to happen to anyone elses child and then they retaliate because they were hurt and get worse consequences than the initial attackers.
ReplyDeleteThese problems are widespread at the 'city' elementary schools as well - Prince Street is a prime example - the Previous Principal (Fowler) was there for 8 years and kept it all under wraps, suspended kids who broke the rules and ran a safe school - but see where that got him - a trip to the hospital with heart problems because central office was always trying to cover things up - they rode him to the very brink because he stood up to them and did what was right - you can bet the other administrators are even now more afraid to say or do anything because of this, and we loose a GREAT Principal. My kids always felt safe while he was there - the new guy, Nunzio, is an 'old boy' specially placed there to keep it all quiet, and the kids have no idea who he is and the other parents I talked with are already not impressed with him....watch that school have the next major incident. I'm pulling my kids out now because I'm not going to wait to see what happens next!
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