Stop Policing... Just Educate...the Kids...
A friend sent me an article from Canada...with the news that a Grade 12 student is suspended for selling pop from his locker...
And the friend wrote... "Mr. Kevork please have a look at this article from CBC-a kid named Keenan Shaw got suspended for selling Pepsi.
Can't believe it!"
Sugary drinks...Not healthy... I have seen students with pop as their "breakfast..."
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Student selling Pepsi…is suspended….
Keenan Shaw says he
was suspended for selling Pepsi from his locker to other students… reports
the CBC…on Sept. 15, 2014….
Of course the Board is defending the decision. Of course the principal is standing by the decision…But the student is not happy…The student thinks he is being punished without justification…
Lockers as hang out place...
I made the students come to class without their backpacks...I asked them to leave all extra books and junk in their locker...
They protested...but I explained to them...They understood...
Teachers protested... and i did not listen to them...
1. The lockers are
NOT for conducting business…
2. Pepsi, or any
sugary pop drink or any “power” drink…is NOT healthy…
3. The student was
properly and adequately warned before the suspension.
But, the student
continued his sale…and did not heed the administration and the Board … The authorities
did not appreciate the fact that they are being neglected…and hence…SUSPENSION…
But the student is
calling foul…After all he says…
Lockers as playground...and posting messages...
"I'm not going to name any names, but I know a couple of
people selling marijuana,” he said. "There's kids selling smokes,
there was a kid last year selling meth, as well as a kid selling
acid."
Shaw says he has been told he will be “expelled” if the pop sales continue.
His mother says she believes the school
went a little over the top and that the punishment is too extreme.
Drug sniffing dogs ... in schools...sniffing drugs in the lockers...
Lockers used to hord junk...and cosmetics and "shit" too...
I am sure…because I have been in
few higher and middle education institution and I know how the P’s and VP’s…do
that…They do not want to rock the boat and they do not want headaches all day
and every day…
I know that P’s and VP’s punish
those who they can and realize that it is safe and the parents of the students
will not make waves and will not complain…
I know this…because I have seen
it… They punish “good” students…to boost their ego and also make a point to
others…I have witnessed good students being punished for minor dress codes…while
the “hallway kids” with drooping pants and most of their bum falling out of the
pants…into the hands of the P’s and VP’s have not been punished…
In academic institutions “shit”
happens too… The administrators are
biased too…
But I agree that the student from
Lethbridge, Alberta should not sell sugary junk out of his locker… for the
reasons that I have listed above… But the question is…
Why the P’s and VP’s were unable
to convince the Grade 12 students… to follow their instruction…? Why the
student did not stop and heed the educators warning…?
Questions that DO BOTHER me…!
Questions that DO BOTHER me…!
Are you and educator or a police-person.....?
Suspending a kid means you failed to educate the student...
Suspension is washing your hands from the kids...
Suspending a kid means you failed to educate the student...
Suspension is washing your hands from the kids...
It looks like the educators could
not educate and the student did not have enough respect for their advice and …
wanted a confrontation…
And here we are…The national news
is reporting it…and the student got what he wanted…
Yes, he was suspended… but, also
he got the attention of all the nation… at least all those who are concerned…
The P’s and VP’s failed to
educate the Grade 12 student… They wanted to act like a bullying Big Brother…
The P’s and VP’s did not reason with the kid…They challenged him… They said; “My
way or the highway…” and the teenage kid took the challenge… and dared them…
Education for SALE...
The whole educational system
failed…Just because the P’s and VP’s are full of themselves… and their egos are
bigger than their position…
Education does not need P’s and
VP’s who discriminate and act as police… I always insisted to my students…be in
higher education or in high school… “I am not a policeman…I am a teacher… If I
wanted to punish you…I would have been a policeman… We will think together and
we will learn from each other… We will respect each other…” and I was
successful…
I respected my students and the younger
people respected me… if they cheated… it happened once in a while… I had a chat
with them… I made them realize that what
they did is wrong…I told them that with other people they might be reported to
the P’s and VP’s… That they might be suspended…that university policy is that
they will be expelled for academic dishonesty…
They understood… All of them…
because they are thinking human beings… and they were in school to learn… and I
did my best…and they appreciated it…
And, after the talk… I gave them
the mark that they did not deserve… They begged to write a new test… I refused
and made them take the test to their parents and made the parents sign it…
Now the question again… Why the
Grade 12 student continued to sell and did not listen to the admin…?
I guess the admin failed the kid…
and wasted a good teachable moment…
I guess the admin acted like a
macho Big Brother…and attempted to bully the kid…instead of educating him…
That’s why our education
institutions are full of failures… both adult people and young, not so adult…kids…
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