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ry to protect themselves.
A woman who wor with
kids though id he has known
many young people who were
expelled after carrying a gun to
school for protection, who now
wandered the street with noth­
ing to do and had no opportunity
for the future.
In other quarte there was
concern if youngsters with guns
remained in the regular school
system, the atmosphere of fear
might increase, adding to the
number of guns.
In the survey, some state­
ments indicated that violent be­
havior itself was not puni hed.
Other complaints included:
• A student excluded from
one high school for "a shooting
offense" went to another
teacher's classroom.
One school was admitting
students who were awaiting
trial or sentencing for such
crim as murder. In another, a
student accu ed of shooting
someone in a break-in was al­
lowed to return to the same
School and same grade as the
victim' ister.
David Wineman, an official of
the American Civil Liberties
Union, told the Michigan Citi­
zen that the organization did not
Co�der it d nial of constitu­
tional rights to expel a student'
lot meUling lie was accused of
doing outside school, if his pres­
ence in school was considered a
threat to health and safety, and
ifhe had a hearing. The hearing
would not have to prove guilt
beyond a reasonable doubt, but
only the preponderance of the
evidence and the student could
be temporarily suspended be­
fore the hearing took place.
• One .teacher said that stu­
dents were admitted to their
classrooms after attacking staff .
• Astudent who attacked the
teacher was not only allowed to
return to school but to the same
teacher's classroom.
• At one middle school, stu­
dents with violent behavior
sometimes got second, third and
fourth chances.
• At another, students sus­
pended for violent behaviors to­
ward teachers were readmitted
after other schools refused to
take the students or after they
were at the other school for only
a short period of time.
• Students threatened a
teacher with bodily harm, but
they were only removed for five
minutes, then returned back to
class.
A student in' another class
threatened to shoot a teacher.
The principal suspended the
student, but one semester later
the area sent the child back,
stating the mother could not
transport the child to the new
school.
A teacher was forced to
take one violent student back
into cla a, was personally
blamed and reprimanded for the
student's behavior and was re­
fused penn iss ion to get treat­
ment for injuries on school time.
In another "serious instance" of
deliberate assault by a 13 year
old, the principal failed to me an
assault report, harassed the
teacher, when the teacher tried
to do 80 and told the teacher not
to prosecute the attacker .
• One teacher said students,
who are readmitted after being
suspended are usually sus­
pended again for the arne vio­
lent.behavior within a month.
The survey listed teachers 88
complaining the school did not
support the teacher in disciplin­
ing I serious misbehavior and
disruption. However, the survey
listed some teachers who
prai ed �heir administrators for
being supportive. .
"T E L
b n opposition from the ub­
ur , hen it com to troit
children," h said.
She charged the government
plan was d igned to eliminate
Detroi bools and d roy th
ch r's union.
While Moore bas been critical
of bo h th chool bo rd and the
Detroit Federation of T chers
(DFT) on certain issu , he em-
phasized she beli it n
sary for the people to fight
against the outright d ruction
of public chools and the union.
board ho to dis
i Tu s, De mber 14
m ng, hich will b held 6 p.m. at th
Cleveland Middle School t 12322 Conant
at CharI , about one halfmil uth of Six
Mile Road.
The uperintenden up
commi to tudy i u by t
Detroit Federation of T chers and con­
cerned ci izens, he said, and ift commit­
could not come up with answ rs by the
m ting, th issu might continue to be
tabled.
Sh dded that people also
make sure that there would be
building codes that " ured th
students ould not be under qu tion," if
individual schools handled the i ue,
rather than the central board.