Every day, sometimes several times a day, the PPD dispatcher receives a call that prompts her/him to ask this question: “Is anyone from District #150 on the air?”;
The dispatcher seldom if ever gets a response to the question “Is anyone from District #150 on the air?”;
The dispatcher recently acknowledged (today) to a person who asked her “Is anyone from District #150 on the air?”, that she more than likely won’t get a response to the question “Is anyone from District #150 on the air?”;
The PPD dispatcher then proceeded to ask who was the student and problem (they are getting regular calls from this school… clue, it is in West Peoria);
The PPD appears to be handling District #150 calls by default;
Principals are being reprimanded for calling for help and giving suspensions;
Carl Cannon at Trewyn has his own “Carl Cannon detail” and his calls are handled differently than other District #150 calls;
There appears to be an up tick in calls for the middle schools.
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Today at PHS, a girl was seriously hurt and transported by ambulance. Brass knuckles were recovered. The animals are still running the zoo.
Suspensions aren't allowed and instead an In-School on Saturday is ordered. If the student shows up, record is wiped clean and off they go to commit more crimes.
Wake up District 150 because the District police force doesn't care anymore. They turn their backs and let these kids have at it. Result. Girl is in hospital tonight.
Take away your police force powers, like Lathan has, and you demoralize the force. Who can blame them? They don't want the reprimands nor the legal troubles.
Pull a fire alarm and get a ONE day suspension....yep....happened yesterday. Glen Oak is OUT OF CONTROL. Not blaming the school administrators. It is obvious, their hands are tied. Children from K to 6th grade "roaming" the halls all day, running from adults, laughing all the way. WHEN is this behavior going to be addressed? PBIS is JOKES=Just Obnoxious Kids Enjoying School. Parents need to complain about these obnoxious students that take learning time away from all the good kids(the majority) to Dr. Lathan. She needs to know how out of control all these buildings are. From students smearing feces all over the toilet seats (middle school), to primary school students running out of the building. PLEASE make this STOP Dr. Lathan.....
I live is West Peoria. The bus your talking about comes from the Columbia School area. They are not West Peoria kids!!!! Until Lathan gives the that school a security guard and the principal the right to discipline, we are going to lose one of the best schools in all of Dist 150. Psssttt. That school made AYP last year, do you think they will make this year?
County ( that school is in the Peoria County district) won't answer if they can help it!! They don't want Dist 150 problems.
I hope that someone from District 150 is reading the Journal Star this morning. What a laugh,former principal or should we say future convicted FELON?(Remember, it's all for the children)
This morning: Teacher tells a student- who happens to be playing outside for 15 minutes before the bell rang-that he couldn't come in to eat breakfast because he wasted his time outside when he could have eaten. He said "Fuck you, you fat bitch!"
What type of discipline should this child receive?
At the bare minimum, this child should receive at least a 3 day out of school suspension. However, his mom or dad will probably raise a stink at the school and claim the teacher violated his childs right to a free breakfast. Somehow the teacher will be blamed for the student swearing at her. If this child attended school at any other district than 150, he would most likely be expelled (depending on his or her age). I cringe any time I hear "District 150". What a joke!
And suspending or expelling the students accomplishes what?
And NOT suspending or expelling the students accomplishes what?
In response to Emerge's question, a similar event took place about 4 years ago at Franklin. The teacher was reprimanded because the student is entitled to a free breakfast.
Teachers are talked to like this on a daily basis at many of Dist 150 schools. Nothing is done, so it repeatedly happens. With a taunt from the students many times "whatcha gonna do bout it, bitch. Nothing, cause you can't"!The thing is the student is right. They run the schools in Dist 150.
First of all, how old was the child? Of course, no child should use this kind of language. However, I don't believe a 3-day suspension would be appropriate for a kindergartener or maybe even 1st grade. However, certainly, I believe--for the younger child, for sure--a parent conference should be expected before the child returns to school. And parents should be made to understand--through consequences--that this kind of talk from children is not acceptable.
The other day while I was shopping, I heard a young man cussing out a young woman who was shopping with him (and children were along) with every imaginable, offensive word. Of course, there is little doubt that these children will be using all the same words.
If the parents can't be "retrained," the children will have to bear the consequences if they can't do better.
Most of all, distrixt and school administrators need to let everyone involved (teacher, parent, students) know that this is unacceptable behavior. No child should be taught that the behavior will be ignored or even excused.
I say if they act out in such a way - cut whatever free food, free Obama phone, free WIC card or free whatever other government handout that is given. People don't tend to value what is free, and for many in D150 - getting a "free lunch" is only the tip of the iceberg. Hit'em and the families in the wallet. Then get the state to modify (better incentivize?) aid to reward EXCEEDS. Change the monetization of benefits, change the behavior. All else is left leaning feel good BS that ain't workn!!
One extreme to another isn't a solution--it's vengeance. Sanity has to reign. These problems have been ignored for a long time. A solution takes some decisive action but the school district does not have the power to suspend benefits.
I asked some students to get off of the playground equipment after school today (4th, 5th, and 6th graders) since it is a school rule because we have NO supervision and we are concerned about liability should anyone get hurt. I was told F-You about 3 times, literally to my face besides them saying Make Me. One girl just kept swinging and laughing at me. BTW, there was her band instrument sitting in the wood chips while she played on the swing. No support, no back-up. The principal literally is sitting in her office watching the children break the rules and she is doing NOTHING about it. I'm done.....from now on, I have blinders on. I am tired of being told that "we are a team" yet we are not supported.
Really? you asked children to STOP playing? After school? School rule? Which school? I see kids playn on school grounds after school all over the city - and you are trying to deny a child that ability? I highly doubt there is any such school rule in place. Never heard of one adopted as policy by the board, never heard of it period. And Sharon, modifying benefits should be done at the state level - but please don't get involved in something that might work - like rewarding exceeds students and changing the current mindset of apathy because all of the handouts are necessary, deserved, or some other liberal feel good adjective you want to use. It has nothing to do with vengeance but a lot to do with getting parents and students to do WHAT THEY SHOULD!
When children are playing on the equipment after school, who is supposed to be supervising? If teachers are the supervisers, then students should be expected to do what the superviser (teacher) says--simple as that. However, if we have principals who think differently, then eventually teachers are going to have collectively stand their ground to be heard and heeded. Too bad the union can't take that lead.
Question: When you say there is NO supervision, does that mean no one is assigned to watch the children--I guess if that is the case then teachers shouldn't take on the responsibility. If no one is assigned that duty and if something happens, who is liable--the teachers or the principal? It should be the person who is in charge of assigning duties. Then, of course, those supervisors should be backed by the principal.
2nd Anonymous, I honestly don't understand what you are saying--thoughts a bit too jumbled. Just exactly what are you proposing that teachers can do by themselves?
Unfortunately, "playing" on the playground equipment is actually destroying the playground equipment. There are schools which have had brand new equipment installed within the last year or so and it is destroyed--torn down, broken off, or graffitied. Since when is telling an adult to F-off ok---especially if the adult is a teacher who is asking you to do something. Why is everything these children are doing okay? Why, when the parents who haven't come to a single conference or given the school a working phone number, suddenly show up when their out of control child is facing suspension are these parents being treated like their word is gold??? Students should be given the punishment which is on the books for the "crime". Instead, a parent wants to raise their voice and holler at the principal (of course, in front of the student--wonder where they learn the disrespect). Someone needs to stand their ground and dispense the proper consequencre rather than say, Oh, well, then we will just put that kid right back into his classroom to continue to disrupt the learning of students who have actually might want to learn something. When did the rights of the students with involved parents who teach their kids how to behave become obsolete, unimportant, and insignificant to the rights of loud mouthed, rude parents who have no problem dropping the f-bomb in their student's school's office???
PSD 150 is in need of a serious overhaul and it needs to be immediate and across the board. Expectations and consequences should be made clear and ALL students should be accountable for their behavior.
D150 is no different than broader society that sees crimes not fit punishment in the court rooms. Plea agreements, laughable probation, etc all serve to set an "environment" for the "family".Some of you who think D150 is the only district in the area that has these problems need to get over yourselves and your agenda and look around. Society is crumbling and our state and city leaders fiddle. Positive change could start with Early Childhood Ed and entitlements, but that must be too obvious for all who rip the kids and the system the complain about.
Free phones, free WIC, free lunches and whatever were here long BEFORE Obama so take that political carp and shove it. If Anon was so concerned about all this free stuff, then why didn't Bush who had his part control for almost 8 years do away with it all?
This is my theory. Who benefits from all the free stuff--is it really the kids and their parents? For instance, when a single mother gets her check, what does she do with it? She goes shopping. Who benefits from her money: Kroger's, Walmart, etc.
Big corporations get this money almost immediately FROM THE GOVERNMENT--they just get it through an intermediary.
Who gets the money for free lunches--what is the name of that company--Amark??. Or do you believe that the provider of lunches spends all the money on kids' lunches or paying the cafeteria workers?
Do you wonder why these programs will not be stopped--the corporations would lose big time. Who has more clout with elected officials--corporations or the poor?
Em - never said Bush wasn't just as much at fault as others. Point is people value what they work for and we've been raising generations to expect handouts. That sense of entitlement and faux dependency is crippling America. But I could survive on 4 day mail if it helped rural America maintain a post Office presence. Oh, and Freedom isn't free - Thank a Veteran or current srviceperson! Happy Veterans Day and Thank Youto all who serve!!
Sharon - utterly clueless to the root cause of the poors plight. Doesn't "lack of respect towards educators and becoming educated" place any of the blame on someone who isn't in admin or "the man"? Just keep givin handouts ain't workn....
I agree. Entitlements, while useful (we all walk the edge sometimes) but all we have gotten in this country from these is a kid who thinks the world should hand him/her anything they need and sadly this is based on color most of the time. To call them Obama's handouts or to imply Obama condones these is wrong. Maybe Bush wouldn't condone them also but politicians being politicians love the lower class (because they don't vote)and they get richer off of them. I'd like to think our or any President would love to see the day we as a people can stand on our own.
I listen to the scanner as well....before this new...uh..."chief" or "head of school security or safety" or whatever they're calling him, the old chief answered 90% of the time...sometimes the guy from Greeley did and sometimes Richwoods...the new administration is a joke...threatening jobs all the time doesn't help the matter of the ones who are busting their behinds for them...
As far as the behavior remember that these students are products of the teen births in the late 80's and early 90's...if the 13-17yr olds then weren't taught manners and to be productive because of the lack of parenting knowledge, how can we expect these kids to be?..."It takes a village to raise a child"
It takes a village to snap the hell out of it and get a damn clue. You all (teachers, mothers, bloggers, fellow students, etc,)come on these blog's and talk about kids cutting up , welfare bullshitting haters talking about freebies when more than most of the people on welfare would at this time in the life of our fucked up society would whether be working to make a living. You talk about kids sending text to have group activities. Yet, do you not think they do not have enough sense to see what is being said on these blogs, in the news and at these meetings?
Yes,control starts at home, but you all have a part in this as well. They hear and read about the BITCH from hell who changed this school district, with not even a thought into how it would effect the kids, into a nightmare, sending kids to school with other children from which heavy fighting was going on because of the screwed up police lieutenant who have not given a damn about the crimes that have been going on since he got the fuck here, to the political bullshitting going on with the so-called white collar workers here and that includes that fucked up teeth mayor who for some reason or another will not take the time to get them fixed, to all of you crying ass teachers and parents who can find the time to sit the hell here and type out your damn frustrations instead of getting the fuck up off your asses and maybe,hmmm, standing up for your rights, march a damn hole in the ground down at the courthouse, city hall, or maybe around your own damn house.
They acting out because everyone else is acting out. Whether it is for the good I know a lot of you have or what other agenda the welfare haters have, they hear what you bloggers are saying and they are telling you just that. Go fucking figure!
Blog It!
Nice post. If I want to hear that language I'll just stay longer at school. Emerge please remove that rambling post
Must be a welfare lover. A tick on society.
No I won't delete the Anonymous post above. Even though it is rambling, the commenter makes some very good points. And we are all adults, we have heard cuss words before.
As a matter of fact,the commenter touched on a couple of subject matters that I think are worthy of discussion, something we adults have not talked about... we have only sought to blame the victims (i.e. children), but we have yet to explore why are the children in Peoria acting out?
Most of the kids I dealt with are really into violence, hip hop culture and gangs. I know not all kids are, but the ones I encountered were. If you worship a violent life style, you will probably end up in violence. I got immune to the constant violence. If they weren't attacking each other, they were pretending to. When I heard a student walking down the hall screaming (they thought it was singing), horrible words. I also saw a lot of kids wearing shirts with Scareface on it. It always gets worse before it gets better. I think that some of these kids who were into want more for their own kids. I really felt like it might be changing, slowly, but changing. I have been really angry with a lot of people in my life. Never once did I think I would get a gun and kill them. Unfortunately some of our kids, can and do. They have access to guns and have no qualms about using them. Maybe more counselors and anger management classes will help. The turnstile to and from Prison isn't the answer.
I couldn't even figure out what the swearing commentor was even trying to say......
That is why it should be deleted. There is no rhyme or reason. Emerge, please explain what this poster is saying....
This is Emerge's blog--why would you expect her to remove something that you or I don't like. She lets all of us vent here. I couldn't understand all of what the blogger was saying either and I could do without the "F" word. However, in a round about way he/she was making some observations that all of us have made.
Just would like to know or understand what exactly those "observations" are, Sharon...
Obvious that Sharon blames admin or "the man" for all shortcomings she likes to rant about. Never a solution, only "observations". oh I apolgize - her solutions are to keep writing checks to deadbeat parents and pay teachers more cuz those taxpayers that live in te D150 part of Peoria - not the Dunlap part - are so well off and seeing their prpoerty values rise due to the outstanding work teachers are doing. If that ain't the truth - blame admin and "the man".
Ernie: This one, especially, "They hear and read about the BITCH from hell who changed this school district, with not even a thought into how it would effect the kids," (However, I wouldn't use the "B" word.
Anonymous, I do tend to blame the decision-makers (administrators)--teachers do not make decisions; they are just asked to implement the decisions of the administrators. And by administrators, I do mean mainly those at the very top, not building principals, who just follow orders, also.
Now it is true, however, that individual teachers can be held accountable for how well they implement--however, I maintain that many of the initiatives of late are creating many problems and aren't really solutions.
To say that I am in favor of welfare is quite a leap for anyone who knows me. I'm just asking you to consider another point of view--that even though those who receive welfare often misuse the money and maybe don't even deserve or need it, there are other beneficiaries of the welfare money: all the businesses where the money is spent. Don't you believe that those big businesses lobby to maintain the welfare state that benefits them. The poor do not have that kind of political power. I do favor a system that requires accountability--because that is the way to build self-esteem and, in turn, leads to accepting responsibility.
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