re: WAFB investigates students being given grades in an EBR School

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Can we just be honest? That position is dumb. There is a reason that the school system is the way it is. Demographics. But no one wants to say that and rock the boat. Plain and simple...until you actually come out and be honest, and force the scum within the school system to pass or fail, it will never be better. And as long as the same teachers keep teaching, and the same trash keeps attending, it will never get better. It is a cultural problem.

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We need to be honest here, the problem is we aren't. People keep making excuses for bad behavior, substandard teachers, and an administration that is just really a guy old boy network.

First we need to start at the top. We need strong, courageous principals to run the schools. Pay these people good money. Pay them as if they are the CEO of the school and make them accountable for educating the kids, hiring and firing teachers, keeping the facilities in shape, and for keeping the schools clean and for discipline.

Let the principal hire quality people and let him fire the ones he/she needs to fire.

When students act up, you have to discipline them, if they continue to act up then you have to get them out of a mainstream school into some king of alternative school. You can not have children there disrupting class, bullying or harming teachers, and preventing others from learning.

Now some feeling may get hurt, some kids may be labeled; but passing them when they don't pass, looking the other way when they are rowdy, and keeping the status quo brings down the entire school.

The administration should monitor schools, but they don't need to be micromanaging the principals and their staffs. Policy is one thing, getting involved in individual issues is another.