re: Complaint filed about the amount of arrests (of blacks) in Jefferson Parish schools.

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Anyone thinking this is odd should go spend a day as a substitute or monitoring a class in Jefferson Parish (and where the hell is Orleans? They must just arrest them after school). As the teachers can neither beat nor summarily execute some of these students, police intervention is necessary

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I taught in Orleans Parish. Our school was 99% black students. Our suspension rate was 0.0. This is because our principal refused to suspend students because it would look bad on the school assessment.

Therefore the teachers were powerless. We had 4 teachers out on assault leave . One had her arm crushed in a door by the kids, another was pushed down concrete stairs.

The school board responded to this by sending a lawyer to tell the teachers if they so much as touched a child, even to defend themselves or to defend another child, we would be fired and arrested for assault, battery or whatever.

We were told if we were being attacked by a child that we should raise our arms high in the air so everyone could see you were not touching the child.

That presentation by that lawyer was like something out of the twilight zone. I got a job at a Catholic school over the Christmas break and quit mid year. My life and my reputation (being arrested for touching a child) was not worth it.