Student offenses decrease

Of course discipline infractions have declined in Richmond County. Total student enrollment has declined also. Duhhhhh

As Richmond County schools become more then babysitting businesses, discipline problems will continue to decline. As more is expected from the students academically , more time will be spent on school activities and less on "extra curricula" activities. (this, of course, doesn't apply to the incorrigibles.)

What do you think? The students that left just so happened to be the ones causing trouble? naysayers always seem to find only the negative about any given situation. DUHHHHH!

I would like to attribute some of the decline to the excellent job some of the school officers are doing.
When students are shown that they will be disciplined for violations, the violations decline. That is a big "DUH" isn't it?
I blame the parents for the actions of the child. If parents were held responsible for the actions of their children, maybe the way kids are raised would improved.

I think the problems have increased because the "other discopline incidents" category for previous years was high because of the "uniforn" policies and they are still high without the policy! I don't know why, but I just don't trust a politician no matter what they say! I guess its because they won't tell us what changes are discussed in the back room to keep data like this down! And the RCBOE elected members are like robots, Bedden speaks and they start nodding heads. Makes you wonder who works for who?

Oh Please.... Of course the reports are down. PRINCIPALS ARE ENCOURAGED TO NOT REPORT. Too many reports and the principal looks bad and may get transferred. Also, too many reports and that school will not make AYP. I can tell you with many years of teaching in the ghettos of Augusta that teachers write up the discipline referrals..they get to the principal..who does NOTHING. Bedden needs to jack up some of these principals who never get out of their offices and make them walk the halls, enforce dress code and appropriate behavior. When elementary students yell out in class describing oral sex and nothing is done about it.. Yeah that's where I teach. It's a war zone every day.

Don't ou guys see.....We have to give obama all the credit. Soon there will be no gangs or poverty or war.....only unicorns and teddy bears

RCSS students, their parents and their teachers deserve a school environment conducive to teaching and learning. (B)ebbe, help is on the way!

Yep, the number fell, but how abut the percentages. There aren't as many students as there was before.

i agree with ''bebbe''don't be fooled by the hype of what you read!!! when it comes to a.y.p. in the schools some princibles will go to anything to hide things!!! all they care about is the image they're upholding, and for the elementary teachers some of them need to retire !! they've gotten to the point where they don't want to help students in the class but would rather give them work to do at home onthe computer, wwell that's fine too but if the child can't get it on paper in front of them how the hell do they expect the child to get it on the computer? and then they'll tell you something stupid like they don't have enough paper to make copies or the computer isn't working to make copies,my thing is why are we sending the kids to school if the teacher is getting paid wit a degree to teach but refuse to teach and want the parent to do all the teaching for them? now i'm a parent who teach's the kids anyway at home to prepare them for school work year round( including summer breaks) for the next grade but at the same time we need teachers who care not just coming to work wearing tight clothes like their at a club then expect the kids to follow a dress code! get your staff right!!

It's not just not reporting - they implemented a disciplinary system where the Disciplinary Referral - (which is what they have to report to the Board) is 8th on the list of consequences, where previously all of the actions were written up. This is just another example of playing with the numbers to make themselves look good. Langford was on "soft lockdown" for the last six weeks of the school year last year - the students didn't leave their classes all day, the teachers rotated classrooms. Second-career teachers are leaving after being in the classroom for just a few months because the kids are out of control. This school system is not getting better, the administration is just finding ways to make it look like it is.

if you expell all 10,000 students think of the savings to the poor taxpayer, it would empty out the "alternative school" send the "problems" back to their trifling parents where they belong. then the boe will be able to start colisng unecessary high schools...oh! but wait that will mean the reduction on seats on the school board which will translate into less schreeching of "FOR THE CHILDREN" BY VENUS CAIN