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Tag: Behavior Education Plan

  • Cursing in Madison schools: level 2, 3, or 4? — D*#*’d if we know!

    How many bottoms can little Johnny touch before he gets ‘restored’? Restorative justice.  Got to admit, it sounds good, doesn’t it? Kind of like “each according to his need.” “Social justice.” The Sacagawea dollar coin. ABC-TV cancelling Last Man Standing. Or at least, it did at the time. The Madison school board has doubled down on…

  • Secret decoder ring comes with new Madison schools behavior plan

    ‘Pilot a 1.0 feeder-pattern’ Fer Shure! The Madison Board of Education recognizes that its Behavior Education Plan (BEP) has been a total failure —a recipe for chaos (just add kale and capers).  In response, the school board is squeezing the air out of the plodding, bureaucratic behemoth to get it down to 32 pages. (“Down…

  • Bad behavior increases while school suspensions are down? Ya’ think?! Part #3 of 3

    Is Blaska aware of the school district’s Behavior Education Plan? “Aware of it?” He has nightmares over it. Indigestion.The heebie jeebies! Third part of the Madison Teachers Inc. questionnairefor the Tuesday, February 19 school board primary election I face the MTI firing squad at 6 p.m. this Wednesday, January 16. Tell my story to the…

  • Madison public schools increase discipline problems by reducing suspensions

    $15 million gets you more classroom chaos and identity politics warm fuzzies None of that nonsense at Ms. Hicks’ middle school! Your reading assignment today, class — YOU THERE IN THE BACK ROW! DON’T MAKE ME GO OVER OVER THERE! — is Chris Rickert’s take-down of the racially motivated “behavior education plan” employed by Madison’s public…

  • Chaos at Sherman Middle School started with Obama’s race shaming; Part #4

    ‘You wanted this, liberals … you got it. Good and hard.’  About the fallout at troubled Sherman Middle School, the irony is that whistle blower Karen Vieth is a Madison teachers union rep. A liberal in good standing in the Peoples Republic. Member of the Madison Teachers Inc. team that picks which Democrats to endorse…

  • How dare a teacher criticize a principal of color! Part #2

    Madison schools focused on ‘Racial Equity’ (aka Making the Numbers Work) Discipline? Not so much In the last installment of your favorite blogge, the Policy Werkes reported a veteran teacher admits defeat by the Madison district’s addiction to race-based school discipline.  Karen Vieth is quitting teaching in the Madison public schools after 16 years “because…