Good advice, my Space City Brother! To add credence to your post, kindly be advised that I served as a "permanent substitute" teacher, from early March to the end of the school year in a nearby school district. Part of the problem is that the schools have no long-term solution to Little Johnny the perpetual troublemaker; first they send him to "lunch/d-hall" until he acquires 5 trips there, then they might send him to In School Suspension (ISS) for a few days, then back to the regular classroom. Guess what boys and girls: Little Johnny ain't changed his behavior, bad attitude, or have his parents given a fig about what's going on. It takes a family to raise a child, and the police, school teachers and others are just supporting cast members, not surrogate parents.
If you get involved, demand accountability of your system, an item that has been absent for decades, which is why the schools are currently intellectually and morally bankrupt.
