Islamic Terrorism in the West ( Mega thread)

[Czech_pivo]

Public schools espouse a series of standards and principles they claim to promote, however they generally follow the path of least resistance when things get messy. My daughter was getting harassed by a kid with 'issues" and the teachers and principle were ignoring his behaviour and giving him a pass. I told them, she will defend herself next time and has our full backing. I also pointed out that self-defense is a right in Canada and they also have a duty to protect my daughter when under their care. After she slugged him hard, he left her alone and focused on the kids that would not defend themselves. The kid knew exactly what he was doing and was given to much leeway by the school. This is just one example and I know of many more.
Private schools also espouse standards and principles and will abide by them as long as it does not impact revenue.

The school boards are all petrified at being sued by parents and/or having 'Human Rights' charges brought against them. Not uncommon for EA's to wear Kevlar 'anti-bite' sleeves and spit shields daily in the class while working with their assigned student.

 

[OldSolduer]

Public schools espouse a series of standards and principles they claim to promote, however they generally follow the path of least resistance when things get messy. My daughter was getting harassed by a kid with 'issues" and the teachers and principle were ignoring his behaviour and giving him a pass. I told them, she will defend herself next time and has our full backing. I also pointed out that self-defense is a right in Canada and they also have a duty to protect my daughter when under their care. After she slugged him hard, he left her alone and focused on the kids that would not defend themselves. The kid knew exactly what he was doing and was given to much leeway by the school. This is just one example and I know of many more.
Private schools also espouse standards and principles and will abide by them as long as it does not impact revenue.

Their is only ONE language a bully will truly understand and its the same with terrorists.

Enough said.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

The school boards are all petrified at being sued by parents and/or having 'Human Rights' charges brought against them. Not uncommon for EA's to wear Kevlar 'anti-bite' sleeves and spit shields daily in the class while working with their assigned student.

There are some kids that have no concept of action/consequences and never will. Most of the students understand that of these kids. However there are a lot of kids who are partly on the spectrum but can understand action and consequences and have learned to exploit their "handicap". In fact we don't do them any favours by not holding them to a standard, because once they leave the school system and government care, they fail to intergrade into society and become a burden.

 

[lenaitch]

The school boards are all petrified at being sued by parents and/or having 'Human Rights' charges brought against them. Not uncommon for EA's to wear Kevlar 'anti-bite' sleeves and spit shields daily in the class while working with their assigned student.

I'm not convinced that is universally true. A lot of boards are a hotbed of social justice activism (and in some cases I'm being kind), often with some bird liberal arts degrees. They drive the idealistic, eutopian, mollycoddling approach and fail to support teachers when they try to actually control their classes. It often takes little more than minimal motivation and a small pool of like-minded voters to successfully being elected in most boards. The public engagement with school board candidates is typically abysmal.

 

[Halifax Tar]

I'm not convinced that is universally true. A lot of boards are a hotbed of social justice activism (and in some cases I'm being kind), often with some bird liberal arts degrees. They drive the idealistic, eutopian, mollycoddling approach and fail to support teachers when they try to actually control their classes. It often takes little more than minimal motivation and a small pool of like-minded voters to successfully being elected in most boards. The public engagement with school board candidates is typically abysmal.

Don't kid yourself many of our teachers have bought into the same kind of rot that is in the school boards too.

 

[lenaitch]

Don't kid yourself many of our teachers have bought into the same kind of rot that is in the school boards too.

For sure, but the post I was replying to claimed the boards were cowering to the parents.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

For sure, but the post I was replying to claimed the boards were cowering to the parents.

Depends on the School Board.

Some school boards are completely enthralled by their own ideological genius- real world be damned. Other School Boards are completely run by the parents. And that is not a universal success, either.

 

[OldSolduer]

Depends on the School Board.

Some school boards are completely enthralled by their own ideological genius- real world be damned. Other School Boards are completely run by the parents. And that is not a universal success, either.

We don't give enough thought or weight to election of school trustees. Usually they are just names on a ballot and no one really knows their platform until you elect a "progressive" board who doesn't think math or history are relevant.
Or common sense for that matter.

 

[RangerRay]

We don't give enough thought or weight to election of school trustees. Usually they are just names on a ballot and no one really knows their platform until you elect a "progressive" board who doesn't think math or history are relevant.
Or common sense for that matter.

Ever read campaign material, if they even make it, by school board candidates? It’s the most anodyne stuff produced. You get absolutely no idea of their real agenda and no opportunities to question them. All you can do is read that anodyne stuff and their biographical materials and see if you can find small red flags, if possible.

 

[The Bread Guy]

One of the tools Holland is weilding.

Netherlands moves to criminalize glorifying terrorism

The Dutch government has proposed legislation that would make it illegal to glorify terrorism or publicly support terrorist organizations, citing the growing threat such acts pose to national security and the democratic rule of law. The bill, which has completed its consultation phase, has now...

nltimes.nl

This from a Google translate of the NLD info-machine posting on this (highlights mine):

Wetsvoorstel om verheerlijken van terrorisme strafbaar te stellen naar Raad van State

Terrorisme vormt een ernstige bedreiging voor de democratische rechtsstaat en de veiligheid van de Nederlandse samenleving. Terroristische en gewelddadige boodschappen verspreiden zich, zeker online, razendsnel over de hele wereld. Daarom heeft het kabinet besloten om het verheerlijken van...

www.rijksoverheid.nl

... The bill introduces three criminal offenses. First, it will be a criminal offense to publicly, for example, through speech, text, or image, excessively praise a terrorist offense punishable by life imprisonment, such as a terrorist attack that resulted in death or injury. This so-called glorification of terrorism is punishable by a prison sentence of up to three years or a substantial fine. The distribution of material that glorifies terrorist violence, such as a video of an attack accompanied by laudatory commentary, will also be criminalized. This offense is punishable by a prison sentence of up to two years or a fine.

Finally, publicly expressing support for banned terrorist organizations will be made a criminal offense. This can occur if someone publicly waves flags of banned terrorist organizations, or wears clothing with certain symbols or logos of a banned terrorist organization, thereby contributing to others sharing that organization's goal of committing terrorist crimes. Expressing support on (social) media will also be punishable. This offense also carries a maximum prison sentence of three years or a fine.

 

[lenaitch]

We don't give enough thought or weight to election of school trustees. Usually they are just names on a ballot and no one really knows their platform until you elect a "progressive" board who doesn't think math or history are relevant.
Or common sense for that matter.

And we have been just as guilty of that. Unless there has been some notorious issue, they were just names on a ballot, and names of people we've never heard of. At least local mayor and council are . . .well, local. In Ontario, particularly in the north, school boards cover a huge area. Toss in the multiple boards within a given area (English Public, English Separate, French Public, French Separate) and we, like most people, just left that part of the ballot blank. In our last place, we even had a Protestant Separate Board. I lived in one place years ago that had one high school run by four boards.