teacher assaulted by student, and caught on video

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Income in some cases, doesn't always have anything to do with school violence.

My knowledge about the Baltimore school systems is based upon what I read -- this particular school's test scores don't paint a pretty picture


I never taught in an inner city school, and I work in law, therefore I am not qualified to talk about education economics / politics.

My wife teaches at an inner city school. My younger brother teaches at an inner city alternative school.

Income has nothing to do with school violence? In some cases, correct. In most cases, in fact, the vast majority, income is a reliable predictor of whether a school will be safe or not.

My wife's school, though having a very large percentage of lower income minorities is a very safe place. That's because it's a charter school though. Take the surrounding mainstream public high schools, though, and you'll see that in the wealthy areas, the public schools are great. There's excellent parental interaction, etc. Go to some of the poorer schools, such as the one my wife taught at in her first year of teaching, and you'll find that discipline is impossible, things are never the kids' faults, education is not valued, parents are either threatening to sue the school, or completely absent.