and demand La Follette high school ‘security staff’ be terminated!
Your correspondent was carrying a little baby we named Max out of what was then Elmbrook Hospital in Brookfield WI many calendars ago. The newly minted father — only a decade or so removed from childhood himself — half expected a tap on the shoulder. “Excuse me, sir. Where do you think you’re going with that baby?”
Like Ms. Butterfly McQueen, the Head Groundskeeper didn’t know nothing about bringing up no babies. Which is to beg your apologies, Number One Son, all these years later. But the Old Guy is still learning and hopes to be a perfect father in the near future. Maybe not Ward Cleaver or Fred McMurray, but more along the lines of Fred Sanford.
(Clutches chest: “I’m coming, Elizabeth!”)
Now for today’s unhinged rant:
We don’t often praise our favorite daily newspaper here in Madison WI for their opinion page but whose fault is that? Thankfully, the WI State Journal this Sunday morning in June reminded the indentured servants of that blind squirrel catching a nut. The newspaper opined: “Security staff are in the wrong job if they object to arresting armed students.”
The so-called “security staff” at La Follette high school put up a hissy fit when police carted off an 18-year-old student found with weapons of mass destruction in his backpack. (“We’re supposed to protect kids here” — from police!) The newspaper quotes the school principal, who caught hell from the “security staff,” to say:
“We have amazing employees of color who were watching a student of color going into the system. They were, and are, heartbroken” and “raw emotions and feelings surfaced. …. Their hearts were in the right place.” — Principal Mat (one T) Thompson, quoted here.
That kind of Woke blibber blabber surfaces raw emotions and feelings in this correspondent but he does not want to go all Proud Boy on the schools. Instead, we offer defeated school board candidate David Blaska’s response to rightly concerned Madison parents and taxpayers:
The so-called security staff members who objected to police removing the student armed with deadly weapons have been suspended from their jobs and are banished from the La Follette campus pending administrative review. Their cases have been referred to law enforcement for possible criminal charges of aiding and abetting the unlawful possession of firearms on school property.
We are investigating whether school district personnel at all our schools, including teaching staff, have countenanced other dangerous behavior or discriminated (reverse or otherwise) on the basis of race.
• This school district has engaged former Madison police chief Mike Koval to train remaining security staff in detecting weaponry and enforcing our ban on bullying.
• The Madison Metropolitan School District will conducti in-service training for all personnel on accountability and responsibility in order to reverse the training in grievance and victimhood promulgated by former district superintendent Jennifer Cheatham.
• We are in contact with Mr. Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute to train teachers and staff to recognize and combat critical race theory.
• Beginning Monday, our schools will collect electronic devices at the beginning of the school day and return them to students at the end of the school day.
• We intend to return school resource police officers for the next academic year.
Finally, on this Fathers Day, please be a parent to your children! Read to them, give them chores, set limits, and demand results. Do that and we wouldn’t have to put your precious bundles “into the system.”
/s/ — David Blaska
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Those La Follette “security staff” may be in the wrong job, as the State Journal suggests, but they’re in the right school district. They are not boogers in the bouillabaisse. They have mastered former superintendent Jennifer Cheatham’s race-based blame and guilt curriculum well.
8 responses to “Fathers! Inspect your kids’ back packs!”
Would the “principal” have felt so much better if the young deviant had been left alone and started shooting all over the place? The time has come to stop using race or gender as excuses for criminal behavior. Evil is evil.
Not in Madison, Jake.
Here’s a novel idea; let’s get Fathers of a…um…certain demographic IN_THE_FREAKIN’_HOUSE…which would make it infinitesimally easier to check kids’ backpacks, am I right?
Anywho, Rollie claims this fact-based Reality is RAYcist in 5…..4…..3…….
The Gotch
“• Beginning Monday, our schools will collect electronic devices at the beginning of the school day and return them to students at the end of the school day.”
Those ankle monitors have to stay on, right?
As you can probably guess with my blog name, I am not a native of Madison, Wi. However, I have lived here off and on for 28 years. (Many job transfers)
I feel sorrow for Madison natives who absolutely love Dane County and Wisconsin as their home-but to have to experience the Dane County area fall into a significant dis-repair must be heart-breaking.
I will not offer any solutions, as much of what is written by Dave and others is “right-on” and would be successful given a chance. Hang in there.
Your fantasy docket is impressive but it’s exactly what Madison voters fear – too much.
Remember what Lovie Smith’s goal was when he became head coach of the Bears? Beat the Packers. That was it. Simple, understandable, doable.
With that in mind, picking one and only one thing and promising voters to do nothing more may be a useful strategy to thwart the nonsense pervading MMSD.
IMHO the one thing should be:
”• Beginning Monday, our schools will collect electronic devices at the beginning of the school day and return them to students at the end of the school day.”
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