On Franklin Middle School placed on 'watch list'
Posted on June 10 at 1:41 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Right on Lake!
It all starts when they are young, when you teach them simple things, like to look adults in the eye and say "thank you" or "I am sorry."
Re parents unreasonably angry at school officials: you are certainly correct, but schools owe it to all of us to stand thier ground.
On Franklin Middle School placed on 'watch list'
Posted on June 10 at 1:06 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Dear Trish,
I certainly did not mean that parenting is easy. I have a number of kids too. Some are easier than others. Some test the limits. Often. But they know that there is a limit, and at home they can learn this the easy way or the hard way.
To your point: For every concerned parent like you, how many more are there that dont return teacher phone calls, dont show up for conferences, or answer a school's concern with something like "so what do you want me to do about it?" I have seen them, and you, I am sure, have seen them, and this is the problem. Our schools, in my opinion, have no decent limits when it comes to appropriate behavior, and when taxpayers are required to spend millions each year, they deserve value for their money. Indeed, if parents and schools dont set limits, even if its hard, little johnny will eventually be out in the world with absolutely no skills and a devastating misunderstanding of life's behaviorial limits.
On Franklin Middle School placed on 'watch list'
Posted on June 10 at 11:37 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
My only gripe with the teachers and administrators is that they tolerate bad behavior and poor achievement. Enable is actually a better word.
They, we, all need to blow a bugle about bad parenting, and then do something about it.
On Franklin Middle School placed on 'watch list'
Posted on June 10 at 9:52 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
My kids attend or have attended Franklin. I never see kids do homework anymore, and I believe it is because most would not do it even if it was assigned. Classroom behavior is outragous, and only gets worse at Parker. To cover for vacant parenting, (to put it mildly) the schools cop-out and dumb-down the curriculum, tolerate filthy language, and obnoxious students.
Solution: 1. Sames sex classes remove the showboating and alot of the innapropriate behavior. 2. Up the standards, up the homework, and up the behavior requirements! If kids do not comply, they should be removed or expelled from school, or placed in what was once called Reform School. This will force lazy, careless parents to discipline their kids to perform.
It worked in the old days, but society was not as sophisticated then...
On Businesses could leave Edgerton after dispute with landlord
Posted on May 24 at 1:25 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Grafft in another fight? So what is new here?
On Janesville church’s chimes prompt noise concerns
Posted on May 22 at 9:59 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I live fairly close to Mt. Calvary. If this fellow was really upset about noise over the years, he would have also complained about:
1. The various noises, legitimate and illegitemate, coming from Parker.
2. The noise you could hear at night all the way from Freedom Plastics,(the hum of their operation and the back up alarms of their forklifts)
3. Not to mention the frequent very loud train whistles at all hours from nearly a mile away.
This must really be someone who is mad at churches or God. Jug, you are on the wrong side of this one, brother.
Posted on April 21 at 2:27 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Jim, nice story but you left out the most interesting part: what does the deed say that it has been mortgaged for??
On Janesville School Board expels four students
Posted on April 16 at 3:52 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
The immediate problem here is that they are only expelling four! As a parent of high school students, I have sadly gotten used to constant reports of disgraceful behavior, filthy language, widesperead sexual harassment and racial epithets. Teachers and staff either placate these rubes or have just become cynical. The JPS ought to be cleaning up the schools far more than this.
Clean up the rancid atmosphere of total disrespect, and the knife carryers, thieves, and drug dealers will dissapear.
On Turner teacher suspended for headlock on student
Posted on April 2 at 3:38 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Public humiliation over this...PC run amok. Let's see now: Our schools feature drug use, esp. heroin, booze, appallingly bad behavior, filthy language, and no respect shown by students to anyone because teachers and adminitrators are worried about 'rights' and lawsuits all of the time.
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On Changes to auto insurance laws are complex and have deadlines
Posted on October 26 at 12:18 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
This is not about insurance companies. This is all about blood sucking trial lawyers and the Democrats that love them.