12-04-2013, 04:44 PM
D2K: "Oh yeah, everything that happened before 2006 is ancient history. What?" Exactly what question are you posing here? I must have missed it because it was hiding behind the snark. News is by definition NEW. I said this article was "old news" because, at roughly 8 years ago, it is.
There have been no similar events since that I know of, but that is no guarantee that some other set of drama driven adolescents with immature pre-frontal cortexes and poor executive function won't pull the same sort of stupid stunt again. There is plenty of drama driven bad behavior that happens at virtually every large middle and high school on this island, which can degenerate into violence. When this event happened, charter schools were fairly new here, now kids transfer back and forth between DOE and charter schools all the time, so I think this is less likely to happen now.
Keaau had a really rough start when they first opened the HS, multiple administrators changed out every year until finally the DOE got people in there who could control the situation and it seems much improved. Pahoa has had a reputation for a lot of student "scrapping" but most of this stuff tends to stay within a given school. Hawaii and Puna have been through a lot of changes over the past 10 years, this event may have just been a symptom of the adjustments to those changes.
The Public Charter school I teach at has a lot of security people who will confront anyone they don't recognize and ask them what their business is on campus, but they probably couldn't stop a herd of kids bent on jumping someone. No school has that kind of security, even the ones with cops on campus.
Carol
There have been no similar events since that I know of, but that is no guarantee that some other set of drama driven adolescents with immature pre-frontal cortexes and poor executive function won't pull the same sort of stupid stunt again. There is plenty of drama driven bad behavior that happens at virtually every large middle and high school on this island, which can degenerate into violence. When this event happened, charter schools were fairly new here, now kids transfer back and forth between DOE and charter schools all the time, so I think this is less likely to happen now.
Keaau had a really rough start when they first opened the HS, multiple administrators changed out every year until finally the DOE got people in there who could control the situation and it seems much improved. Pahoa has had a reputation for a lot of student "scrapping" but most of this stuff tends to stay within a given school. Hawaii and Puna have been through a lot of changes over the past 10 years, this event may have just been a symptom of the adjustments to those changes.
The Public Charter school I teach at has a lot of security people who will confront anyone they don't recognize and ask them what their business is on campus, but they probably couldn't stop a herd of kids bent on jumping someone. No school has that kind of security, even the ones with cops on campus.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb