A couple of interesting stories came out this week about NYC public schools.  Both make it apparent that the Bronx Zoo now has better behaved animals.

The first is actually a good story, and shows a path that we need to consider exploring more frequently:  lawsuits.  A teacher won a “substantial” settlement from the Department of Education for being treated like a bag of garbage by her students and, implicitly, by the administration that allowed these students to run buckwild in her classroom.  And yes, ultimately this money comes from the taxpayers, but if there were enough successful settlements against these government schools, maybe people will finally be held accountable.  (Then again, this is America, which is now Clown World, so maybe not.)

An immigrant Bosnian city teacher who complained of horrific racial, sexual, and physical abuse from students has settled a lawsuit against the Department of Education, The Post has learned.

Aida Sehic and the DOE agreed to resolve the case this week for an undisclosed but “substantial” sum, according to her attorney, Bryan Glass.

Sehic’s Manhattan federal suit said students in Bronx and Manhattan schools cracked her nose with a bag of metal rulers, stabbed her with a mechanical pencil, routinely demanded sex acts, overturned her classroom and frequently called her a “white bitch.”

Sehic said she repeatedly sought relief from a range of sources, including school administrators, her union and even cops.

But there was little interest in her woes – and Sehic said she was instead targeted for termination because of her complaints and hit with disciplinary charges in 2016.

What lovely students she must have had.

The second story from the NY Post has direct feedback from NYC teachers themselves.  I think I would rather clean toilets at Taco Bell than deal with this crap:

“If I had a dime for every time I was told to suck something, I’d be a millionaire,” said a female Jamaica, Queens, high school teacher.

“You can’t even tell a student that they aren’t going to pass a test or a class anymore because they will go to an administrator and complain that you made them feel uncomfortable and we’ll get written up,” she added.
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The situation is no better in elementary schools, a teacher at Staten Island’s PS 44 said.

“In the lunchroom, there are constant fights … I had to go to urgent care. I was kicked in the knee [by a student]. I was limping for a week. I had blocks thrown at me,” she said.
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It wasn’t always so bad, a Manhattan junior high school teacher said.

“Before, you couldn’t get away with saying ‘F you’ to a teacher or ‘Suck my d–k.’ But now there is no accountability,” she said.

Imagine somebody who has the desire to be a teacher.  She studies, gets the requisite certifications, lands the job and prepares her teaching materials.  She’s motivated by the desire to go into that school and show the kids how to explore, learn, grow and become wholesome, productive citizens for our country.  And on her first day she walks into her kindergarten classroom and some kid tells her to “Suck my d–k”.

That’s the New America.

Many moons ago the public schools were integrated at the end of a barrel of a gun.  The federal government literally sent the military to many states and forced the schools to be integrated.  How’s that working out now that discipline has regressed to the natural state of the jungle?