Jackson Jambalaya

Interesting that not a soul raised their hand when the question was axed, "Is there anyone here representing JPS?" Why no, why would you axe? It's only their entire present and future at risk. Why should they attend?

WTF. JPS didn't bother showing up?

Where was the brave voice of Parents for Public Schools....you know, that Democratic PAC that accuses people of racism if they don't want their child in a failing school.

7:59: Name one school in Ward 1 that is categorized as failing.

What the hell does Ward 1 have to do with it?

Were the JPS people on spring break? Seriously . . . .

JPS has some good athletic programs. Many students get college and community college scholarships. The programs are very important. Many attend school only to play the sports, not get an education. JPS failure is not only a failure to students, but also City of Jackson and State of MS.

JPS has some good athletic programs. Many students get college and community college scholarships. The programs are very important. Many attend school only to play the sports, not get an education. JPS failure is not only a failure to students, but also City of Jackson and State of MS.

Blah, blah, blah.

Where is everyone? Are those kids running around in the background noise?

What are they voting on first? No reading of the motion? Vote on a hearing?

OK, this gets funny, dates, official notifications, dates, code, blah, blah, blah.

So three years ago there was notice. It must be time to come up with all the codes to support planting the money tree that is providing shade while mired in bullshit.

They are obviously nervous about being filmed.

Special education is and should be a priority. I've said it before, when we are unable to assist in support of our most vulnerable and frankly those who don't have a choice; we must make effort and overachieve.

This film demonstrates the "systemic" issue in Jackson. Keep everyone down appears to be the motto, especially those who are unable to succeed without our help as a community. This is sick.

PS If you are going to conduct a conference call, at least let them know to put on "mute" while you are busy shopping at Walmart.

NO PUBLIC ACCESS to documents. Went for the legal response. It's called, bullshit - oh, with a smile. Did she really just smile that big?

OMG - really? Finally, someone asks for mute while the noise is SO FREEEEGIN' loud even the people in the room can't hear!

"This meeting is to determine whether to hold a hearing."

"if we decide to not hold a hearing, what happens?"

"It could go to the board." SO WTF do these people do? What are they responsible for?

Commission or Board? How about 3 years no action we should probably have, at a minimum, public discourse over the inability for them to deal with a very real issue.

"Schedule a hearing to allow JPSD to present reasons why accreditation should NOT be withdrawn." How about why it should.

I'm hearing lets just say we are doing a great job and continue to have hearings on why we are doing a great job; while children suffer.

How do they sleep?

KK, we agree that we must step up to help our most vulnerable children so that they might become independent adults.

We agree that JPS has bungled their response and duties from start to finish.

But, I wonder if they aren't presented with a " mission impossible" .

I have serious question as to the effectiveness of mainstreaming since its implementation. It seems to me that we got better results with other methods 40 years ago...methods that included specialized schools for those with special needs... both learning disabilities and emotional problems. The problem in many communities back then, was that access to such programs didn't exist.

We added new and expensive responsibilities into our public school systems without adding sufficient resources or structure. Ihe monies once spent elsewhere weren't shifted. In some cases, residential care disappeared altogether as the good programs and specialized schools were eliminated along with the ones that simply warehoused.

One thing we do not seem to want to face is the effect that one time demanding child has on the entire classroom. Literally, time is lost teaching the children who can participate while addressing the actions of a disruptive child or stopping to help the child who cannot follow the directions. And, teachers are not successful in expelling, much less permanently expelling unreachable ( within existing structure) children anymore.

IMHO , one reason bullying is so out of control is that violent children with serious problems now populate our public schools when before, they would have been expelled and their parents forced to seek treatment. Now, parents with violent , troubled children can remain in denial.

9:32, are you serious? When have you ever heard of a child with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, etc. being a bully? Never. Ever. In fact, these kids are usually the first targets of a bully.

The issue is special ed kids and JPS' total, systematic failure over many. many years to provide any meaningful educational program for these children. The issue is not "violent" or "troubled" children who are causing problems at school, because I promise you 99 times out of 100 the troublemaking kids are the "normal" kids who are not in a special ed program.

Finally, the issue is not that a special ed student requires a higher level of classroom support to be in a "typical" classroom. Instead, the issue is JPS' failure to provide the support that allows that student to be in the classroom in a way that does not diminish the classroom experience for all children. And JPS' failure to provide those programs does nor mean we should conclude that mainstreaming is unattainable and therefore these kids should simply be warehoused somewhere else. The last time I looked, JPS was not doing a good job providing educational programs for "normal" kids either. Does that mean we should ship those kids off somewhere, too, since their needs can't be met within the school system?

I assume your comment was made with good intentions. But anyone who suggests that special ed was somehow better 40 years ago is simply uninformed on the topic.