A teenager has been accused of choking a teacher at an alternative school. Shawndaleman Mitchell, 17, has been charged with felony assault. Prosecutors said the attack happened at Opportunity Awareness Center in Katy on Jan. 25.
Friday 08 February 2013
So it finally made the news. We have teachers assaulted in our Katy schools. It happens every single work day. This one just caught the eye of a slow news cycle.
I know of teachers with bite marks, bruised shins from being kicked, black eyes from being punched. It makes it all the more exciting to know many of these incidents happen at the ELEMENTARY school level where there is no alternative campus or ANY security on duty.
Bus drivers have been hit and cursed. Crossing guards spat upon.
The list is long and stretches all across the district. Don’t believe for a minute this does not happen in our “better neighborhoods” as it does.
Check out the incident reports filed with the Katy ISD Police Department and many do not get reported as the teacher does not want to get the first grader in more trouble.
Are kids born bad? Are kids brought into this world with a total disrespect for authority? Or do they learn it at home, from friends, in front of a TV or gaming devices, from the movies we allow them to see?
By ourselves, we can’t change society, but all of us can set a better example. Ever watch the parents in the viewing stands at a kids slow pitch game? I think our kids do.
This kid needs some tough love and someone to inject themselves into his life. Maybe a tour of duty in boot camp, or a little basic training with the Seals will help him out? Can’t hurt! For repeat offenders, I suggest CPS gets involved.
Schools have become dumping grounds for all sorts of behavior and teachers take the brunt of it. How many BOT members or ESC leaders have been bit, kicked, spat on, or fist hit by a student on campus? The answer should be zero and the same for our teachers and staff. Sadly, it is not.
JW2:
That stuff doesn’t happen in KISD and you’re just trying to smear our #1 internationally-ranked school district on earth…obviously your ax to grind runs deep!
I’m going to have to agree with westsidebill, when are “PARENTS” going to take responsibility for the examples they set for THEIR children. It’s not the TV you put them in front of to shut them up, it’s not the movies you send them off to because you want them gone, its not the video games you buy for them to occupy there time so you can have “ME” time. Kids wouldn’t be disrespectful to adults if there was more discipline and punishments being handed out at home.
Now, not to say that Just Wondering2 doesn’t have good points, I don’t agree with placing blame on an object that was given to the child as an option from the parent; TV, video games, movies, music, etc.
Parents need to take responsibility for their kids. YES YES, I can hear it now, “but its all so easily accessible.” No, its not. When did ground rules and punishment not stop previous generations? If you don’t stand by your word then why would your child not push back and test the boundaries? There is also something called CHILD LOCK on TVs, you can block certain websites with and without the appropriate software, you don’t have to buy your kid the most violent game so that he’s cool and in with the crowd.
Maybe the laws should reflect that if the child does something wrong, the parent is punished. Maybe parents would start paying attention then to their children then. BETTER YET! Stop procreating.
Kids are kids, they need guidance, love and respect. They also need discipline, a rule book, and consequences.
We have raised a generation of “its not my fault.” Maybe it isn’t, but someone has got to pay and sometimes you just happen to be near the front of the line. This kid is in trouble. We can have him pay the price now, or simply let him skate and in a few years see him attending classes INSIDE Huntsville U. wearing state issued clothing.
What did he do to get to “A” school in the first place? How many times has he been kicked out of class? Are we to believe he was doing okay and then just snapped? Somehow I doubt this is his first or second offense.
As a teacher in the district, this doesn’t happen nearly as much as JustWondering wants you to believe.
smokedraw:
The point I believe that JW2 was trying to make was that serious incidents – this incidents as an example – rarely make the light of day in the public eye. ANYTIME an incident like this occurs in our district or anywhere it should be made public almost immediately; to blatantly and intentionally hide/leave unreported incidents like creates a distrustful and potentially ongoing unsafe situation. The district has no problem whatsoever with PR and media blitzes when they “need” hundreds of millions of bond monies and/or to celebrate awards that no one’s heard of (but WE WON THEM!) yet somehow they seem “clueless” as to how to always keep the community abreast of all the serious incidents that DO occur on our campuses more than most could fathom.