Record Increases In Aid To Rochester City Schools — Look At What We Get For Our “Investment”
I’ve never heard of the Northeast and the Northwest College Preparatory Schools in the City of Rochester. Considering the Rochester City School District has a 39% graduation rate, you would think it must be where the cream of the crop of City school students go.
There was a story on Channel 10 last night about an incident there yesterday afternoon. Someone pulled a fire alarm and after the fire department responded the students went back into the school. Evidently a fight broke out in the school and one of the youngsters went after the school’s police resource officer — yes that’s right, a 15 year old student went after the police officer — at the College preparatory school (maybe they should transfer him to the James Madison School of Excellence).
Apparently the school resource officer felt concerned for his safety and the safety of the other students and had to use pepper spray. Three students were taken to Rochester General and one was seen by the school nurse and one was sent to the pokey. Channel 10 reported that parents “were screaming at police” — yes that’s right, they were yelling at the police — not the youngsters at the College Preparatory School — for using pepper spray.
While this was going on, another fight broke out off of school grounds. More police were called. Rural Metro responded to a “mass casualty incident”. A student criticized the police for pepper spray and arresting people “for no reason.”
The School District issued this statement:
“We are aware that as the weather gets warmer the potential for inappropriate behavior after school increases,” said Jim Sheppard, Director of School Safety and Security for the Rochester City School District. “We are closing ranks with the Rochester Police Department so that our security personnel and the police can work together proactively to prevent disruptive incidents from occurring. We are all focused on the safety of our students.”
This morning’s D&C had two sentences about this incident:
On Tuesday afternoon, pepper spray was used on the Frederick Douglass campus after a fight broke out, spokesman Tom Petronio said. Three students were taken to the hospital and two students were seen by the school nurse and released.
Evidently their reporters were working on something more important — like another story about the MCC Presidency or wait, I know, its been several day since they mentioned the Public Defender selection process.
I think the reason for problems like these are quite simple. We don’t spend enough money on education. When will Maggie Brooks and those mean spirited Republicans get it — things in the city would get better if we all started listening to Assemblyman David Gantt on the important issues of the day and gave more of our tax dollars to support education.
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Cincinnatus,
Sounds to me like another reason for school vouchers. If we had school vouchers and kids could go to private schools, then the schools could just boot the bad students. We could then create a secure school for the bad students and not let the good kids get caught up in the problem.
Maybe David Gantt could teach at the bad schools, and maybe we could use the money we saved on Judges Pay to fund them.