Comments on: Teacher beaten http://behaviormod.info/2008/01/30/teacher-beaten/ A resource about classroom management and behavior change methods Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:15:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sam Gong http://behaviormod.info/2008/01/30/teacher-beaten/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Sam Gong Wed, 07 May 2008 16:02:05 +0000 http://behaviormod.info/2008/01/30/teacher-beaten/#comment-43 "Physical attacks against teachers, or school employees, apparently are rare in Gwinnett." This is very misleading. I grew up in Atlanta, and we've had a history some of the most violent public school systems...long before the media noticed the Columbine massacre. There were kids in the late 80's that held up the cafeteria at Grady HS with sawed-off shotguns, students had to walk through metal-detectors at North Fulton HS. A kid at North Atlanta got beaten within an inch of his life at the football fields during recess and just left unconscious for an entire class period before anyone did anything. Things like this may not be a daily occurrence, but it's not an exaggeration to say violence happens on a weekly basis. The week that Rodney King got beaten, all white kids were told by the faculty not to show up to class for at least a week. Perhaps the most curious was during the early 90's when kids weren't allowed to bring any backpacks that weren't transparent plastic or mesh (so that you couldn't hide weapons.) “Physical attacks against teachers, or school employees, apparently are rare in Gwinnett.”

This is very misleading. I grew up in Atlanta, and we’ve had a history some of the most violent public school systems…long before the media noticed the Columbine massacre.

There were kids in the late 80′s that held up the cafeteria at Grady HS with sawed-off shotguns, students had to walk through metal-detectors at North Fulton HS. A kid at North Atlanta got beaten within an inch of his life at the football fields during recess and just left unconscious for an entire class period before anyone did anything. Things like this may not be a daily occurrence, but it’s not an exaggeration to say violence happens on a weekly basis.

The week that Rodney King got beaten, all white kids were told by the faculty not to show up to class for at least a week.

Perhaps the most curious was during the early 90′s when kids weren’t allowed to bring any backpacks that weren’t transparent plastic or mesh (so that you couldn’t hide weapons.)

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