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FuckUNiggers@yahoo.com (Whitey B Pistoff) wrote in message news:<41957c5e.13421437@news.west.earthlink.net>...
> Hahahaha..
> 
> "We don't need no eduKKKation!"
> 
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=248662
> 
> Burning Questions Trouble Md. Schools
> 
> BALTIMORE Nov 12, 2004 ? Four firefighters and a fire truck are
> stationed outside Walbrook High School every day. The chances are good
> they are going to be needed. 
> 
> Two months into the school year, Baltimore's public schools have been
> hit with at least 76 fires most of them small, most of them set by
> students compared with 168 in all of last year. Walbrook High alone
> has reported about 20 blazes, versus 24 in 2003-04. 
> 
> "I've never seen it this bad before," says math teacher Eugene Chong
> Qui, who has taught in the city school system for eight years. "I
> don't know what it stems from, but it's systemic. It really seems as
> if the students are so far gone out of their minds, they'll do
> anything for attention." 
> 
> In a school system struggling with a $58 million deficit, some say the
> surge in fires is alarming evidence of deeper problems staff
> shortages, cutbacks in extracurricular activities, overcrowded
> classrooms and rising alienation among the 95,000 students.
> 
> So far, the fires have caused little damage and no serious injuries.
> But across the city, a pattern has emerged: Firefighters get a call
> about a fire in a trash can or locker, a bathroom or stairwell; the
> school is evacuated, and students stream outside; with so many people
> in one place, violence sometimes follows; school is usually canceled. 
> 
> On Oct. 20 alone, firefighters got more than 10 calls from Baltimore
> schools about deliberately set fires. 
> 
> At Walbrook High, school officials decided not to even evacuate the
> building during the last several fires because of the fights outside
> and the lost instruction time, Chong Qui says. 
> 
> So far, there have been 61 fire-related arrests, compared with 144
> last year, says city fire spokesman Kevin Cartwright. 
> 
> The Fire Department is offering rewards of up to $500 for information
> leading to a conviction, and has stationed four-person crews at three
> high schools as a deterrent and to enable firefighters to get to the
> scene more quickly. Also, the school board last month voted to spend
> $1.5 million to enable 15 schools to hire 37 more hall monitors and 34
> more security officers. 
> 
> Fire officials have encouraged teachers to patrol in or around
> bathrooms, stairwells and empty lockers between classes. And school
> officials have been talking with parents to try to put a stop to the
> fires and other troublemaking. 
> 
> "We are asking all of those concerned about the city that they join
> us, help us, work with as we work to create better, safe schools,"
> school board chairwoman Patricia Welch said last month. "We can't do
> it by ourselves." 
> 
> At Walbrook High, situated in the city's working-class West Baltimore
> section, 16-year-old junior Christopher Spruill says students are
> setting the fires to get out of class. "They want to be out on the
> corner instead of getting an education," he says. He says students are
> too afraid to speak up, reward or not: "People know who's doing it,
> they're just not saying." 
> 
> Chong Qui says Walbrook High's fires "probably started out with a
> handful of kids. But that handful has contaminated maybe three or four
> other handfuls who aren't strong enough to say no." 
> 
> Part of the problem, says Bebe Verdery, education director at the
> American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, is that officials, trying
> to fix the financial crisis, have increased class sizes 40 or more in
> some classrooms and cut staff more than 1,000 people last year, with
> 250 fewer teachers. 
> 
> "You have a net reduction of the adults who are able to supervise
> students," Verdery says. "When you combine that with the increased
> class sizes, the schools seem much less capable of controlling the
> violence and the fire-setting." 
> 
> Robert Balfanz, a research scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for
> Social Organization of Schools, says the vandalism stems, in part,
> from the loss of counseling and extracurricular programs at schools in
> the city's poorest areas. 
> 
> "The mismatch between the level of kids' needs and the level of
> resources available to help solve their problems leads to kids'
> feeling lost," Balfanz says. "When kids feel lost and frustrated they
> act out." 
> 
> And the misbehavior "is like a contagion." 
> 
> In August, before the school year started, a judge ordered the city
> and state to put an additional $30 million to $45 million into the
> Baltimore schools after the ACLU argued that the system's plan to
> solve its financial crisis hurt the quality of education. But the
> state has appealed, and the money has not been released.

Hank