Jackson Jambalaya

Hinds County and Jackson are ungovernable.

It's clearly Betsy DeVos' fault. Her support for vouchers and charter schools is enraging kids so much these days that it's just a natural reaction.

This is what the teacher's union are protecting.Just why do we even need a DOE?

Taking money from public schools and funding crappy fake Christian schools and for-profit charters, as deVos advocated and achieved in MI, is a fool's errand. Our government should just work with the schools we have. This is bullshit.

There is no teachers' union in Mississippi. Nevertheless, animals and hoodlums often rule the schools.

Me don't think Karen knows diddly do bout Sippi publick skools.

To 3:46: How many decades should we keep trying to work with the schools we have? There are very few 'for profit' enterprises that are not better run than government enterprises. (If I have to explain why that is you will never understand this entire idea of competition in schools) In some cases the charter school won't be better and will fail. Point is people will have a choice. If the charter school is better then the public school can either improve or fire employees like folks in the real world do all the time.

The problems with Terry

1) The principal (Balentine) isn't visible and doesn't really know whats going on i.e. stays near his office

2) The school district is terrified of the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center.

3) Terry is getting more and more disrespectful kids from South Jackson that moved to Byram and now think they are entitled to something because they live in the "burbs"

Ha 3:46 spoken like a true liberal "let's just accept mediocrity".
Whatever they are doing now isn't working, time to chart a new course friend.

Karen, please tell us where you work so we don't EVER go there for medical care.

Until the parents are held responsible for their children actions there will be no solution.

I have to agree with Karen. Creating redundant schools, funded indirectly with public monies, and then filling them with the ungovernable and ineducable children who've destroyed the public schools, is not going to accomplish very much.

10:20 - Please tell us how you came up with that analysis. Your brief diatribe is so full of adjectives and your final suggestion is baseless.

How about we start holding parent(s) responsible for their kids? Just have a standard fine or punishment, and make mom pay one half and dad the other. If mom doesn't know who dad is, she pays whole amount.

Also racism and white privilege.

Terry High School is a classic example of a school system without an effective behavioral management program between school administrators and parents. Their over reliance on law enforcement to control teachers' classrooms has failed all over this country and their "chickens are simply coming home to roost."

4:11 pm Ms. Shackelford has apparently read the results of DeVos's efforts in Michigan and you have not.

We don't need charters. We need residential schools for children with behavior problems and learning disabilities!
We need stronger truancy laws that are enforced. And, we need to restore the ability for principals to expelled unruly children! Restoring a conduct grade is a good idea as well.
You are expecting teachers to deal with kids on drugs and kids with serious behavioral problems and you give them no tools to do it. That is unrealistic!

videos are gone.

I went to Terry in the 1970's. We had a very effective behavioral management program. If you got out of line, Jerry Huskey would swing his 2x4 paddle toward your buttocks until they turned purple.

fixed.

Knock it off. Some of you think it's cute to go digging for dirt online about a reader who commented on this story. Don't waste your time, it's not getting approved. You don't like her comment or disagree with it, rebut it or comment on the comment.