You know that we have gotten out of control when you read the following:

“It is like a war zone.”
“I have kids who are petrified to leave my classroom without me — petrified. They are bullied, they’re hit, things are thrown at them.”
What goes on outside, the teachers said, is just a small reflection of the violence these teachers insist is going on inside their Philadelphia elementary school classrooms.
“To be honest, I’m scared,” a teacher said.
“I had a student larger than myself threaten to kill me.”
[…]
“We have gangs of kids that pretty much run the halls, and we don’t even stop them any more to say, ‘Where do you belong,’ because they will say “f” you to you. They will push you down the steps if you’re in their way,” one teacher told the NBC 10 Investigators.

Sounds like these high school kids are out of control, someplace I wouldn’t want to send my daughter. It would make me take her out of high school and either home school her or send her to private school. But these quotes weren’t about high schoolers, these quotes weren’t even about middle schoolers, these quotes were about elementary schoolers!!!!!!! The elementary school children are out of control and the teachers and administers are doing nothing about it:

“You’re asking the public to believe that when you go to school, you are afraid of elementary school kids? How can they be controlling the school?” Cahn asked
“They are and they will tell you that,” a teacher told Cahn.
[…]
Cummings said that the statistics show violence throughout the school system is down 15 percent and that this year alone almost 10,000 elementary school children have been expelled.
“We are not allowed to suspend. Their hands are tied. (Administrators say), ‘Oh, you have too many suspensions. Stop the suspensions,'” a teacher said.

Amazing, simply amazing.
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