Students try to rape assistant principal
May 10th, 2008 by Mr. Miles
Like I said before, no one will be satisfied until Teachers start to protect themselves with force.
Police: Asst. Principal Nearly Raped By Students
Mary Bubala BALTIMORE (WJZ) ? Staff under siege–there have been more than 100 separate cases of violence this school year. Now we have the first that’s sexual in nature.
Mary Bubala gets reaction from the community.
Her cousin describes her as dedicated to the school.
Some leading educators are calling the pattern of high-profile violence a crisis in Baltimore’s schools.
Teachers and administrators are now advised not to stay in schools alone after dark after a chilling attack at the Calverton Middle and Elementary campus.
What’s supposed to be a safe haven turned dangerous for an assistant principal there Sunday. Police say two thirteen-year-old students broke through a window and tried to rape her.
“She’s been at the school for a while,” said Quiezita Smith, who says she’s the victim’s cousin. “She’s a dedicated educator, very loving person, very friendly, outgoing. She’s very friendly, willing to help anybody. That’s just her nature.”
Investigators identified the boys through surveillance video. Police arrested them when they showed up for class the next day.
“This is now a crisis and we have to call it what it is,” said Marietta English, president of the Baltimore teacher’s union. “I would not stay in these buildings alone late at night.”
The alarm over violence in city schools began with the release of a videotaped attack on a teacher at Reginald Lewis High.
Eyewitness News spoke exclusively with the mother of a student there, who says her daughter’s classmates tried to sexually assault her.
“My daughter said they threw her on the floor and tried to take her clothes off of her, but they couldn’t get them off because she was fighting them off,” she said.
The attacks drew outrage from the mayor and the head of city schools.
“It’s a shame that one can’t do that to prepare for the upcoming week and be safe in that environment,” Mayor Sheila Dixon said.
“No way to predict it. No way to guard against it. There’s no way that we can police a system in this way,” said Dr. Andres Alonso.
Nationwide, there were 1.5 million victims of school violence last year; 78% of schools reported a violent incident.
In Baltimore, the scope of the attacks is escalating. This is the first report of a sex crime against an administrator.
Countless teachers are bruised and battered while their principals look the other way. Still, about 1,500 suspensions and expulsions were issued for assaults on teachers in the city and Baltimore region during the 2006-07 school year. In a five-part series, our partner “The Examiner” takes a look at this rampant violence in the classroom.
Is it safe to become a teacher?
An art teacher is filmed getting beat up in class, 12 assaults by 9-12 year-olds on teachers in New Mexico, a student throws a desk and chair at a teacher after the student tried to push another student into oncoming traffic, one teacher receives a fractured skull, broken rib, collapsed lung for telling four students to leave a bathroom, a group of 3rd graders plan to kill their teacher, students lights teachers hair on fire. Teaching is not for the weak.
I wrote a shocking new book examines the issues & offers answers titled Attacking our Educators
http://www.stoppingschoolviolence.com
This is something to worry about completely. When I was in grade school in the mid 80’s to early 90’s I would have never thought to attack an adult let alone a teacher. However, I went to private school most of my life so I don’t know anything personally about the public school system. I am beginning to believe though that violent and erratic behavior directly correlates with our children’s eating habits. I know it’s off the subject but think about it. Starting from the early 80’s children have been forced fed processed foods, sweets chocked with High Frutose Corn Syrup and other unnatural chemicals. If you take away social physical activity, such as group sports then it becomes worse. There are articles stating that there is a direct correlation between eating habits and behavioral problems. It’s a fact and it must be addressed. No only that but outside elements such as high levels of lead, mercury, and other heavy metals are absorbed in our systems on a daily basis. Unfortunately, low income communities get the brunt of industrially produced bi-products due to neighborhood zoning, red-lining, etc. Just look at West Oakland and it’s high asthma rate. There are also many universities studying the effects of absorbing pollution, especially lead. This metal creates increase violent outbursts and one study in New York claimed that many violent prisoners had an unusual amounts of lead in their blood.
The problem of school violence cannot be solved unless we change the entire paradigm. I agree with John Taylor Gatto in that children are not educated. They are schooled. We must learn to educate our children. That will help to solve the problem. But as long as we have a society dominated by self-destructive people, then the problem still cannot be solved. Our children are thoroughly programmed and corrupted before they even start first grade. The good news is that they can be programmed for peace just as they are programmed for violence. It will take more than schooling to accomplish this, however. The dominant, invading, self-destructive culture must be defeated.
This is simply unbelievable!
Bygbaby