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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:31 AM Oct 2015

Penn Hills Schools struggling with student behavior

This year Penn Hills* school administrators have had their hands full with student behavior problems ranging from dress code violations to destruction of school property and fighting.

Erin Vecchio, a former school director who is running for a seat on the board this fall, raised concerns with the board about student behavior at the high school.
“I was at the high school this week and I was appalled by the dress code. The girls are wearing shorts up to here,” Ms. Vecchio said pointing to her upper thigh.
“And kudos to high school principal Eric Kostic because I understand he wrestled a student down earlier today. That is not part of his job.”

“We have cited 28 students for violations of the dress code,” Mr. Kostic said.
... four fights at the high school last week
... five fights at the middle school
... two fights at the elementary school.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2015/10/02/Penn-Hills-schools-struggling-with-student-behavior/stories/201510020086

* Penn Hills is the largest municipality in Allegheny County, outside the city of Pittsburgh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Hills_Township,_Allegheny_County,_Pennsylvania



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Penn Hills Schools struggling with student behavior (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2015 OP
Sharia Law! Burkas! Only call it Christian Morals and MaryGarb. nt valerief Oct 2015 #1
Stop treating them like criminals then. nt Mnemosyne Oct 2015 #2
For such a large district, I don't find those numbers excessive. femmocrat Oct 2015 #3
Fun fact:This is school dist.Santorum ripped off for his kids' cyber school fees Divernan Oct 2015 #4
This Cyber Charter School Pat Riot Oct 2015 #5
Maybe the students have no respect for authority Pat Riot Oct 2015 #6

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
3. For such a large district, I don't find those numbers excessive.
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 12:55 PM
Oct 2015

Maybe this person is trying to use the numbers for political gain. From reading the article, it looks to me like the district is dealing with it.

As for the short shorts... we had a couple of weeks in the upper 80s (even 90) at the beginning of the school year. Teens are always going to try to subvert a dress code unless they must wear uniforms.

Divernan

(15,480 posts)
4. Fun fact:This is school dist.Santorum ripped off for his kids' cyber school fees
Sat Oct 3, 2015, 02:41 PM
Oct 2015

He and his family were living in a MacMansion in Virginia, but he kept as his "official residence" a tiny ranch house in Penn Hills, which he rented out to a cousin. So when his kids, living in Virginia were enrolled in a charter cyber school, Santorum submitted bills to the Penn Hills School District.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/rick-santorums-school-scandal

In 2004, Santorum spawned a minor scandal when news broke that he was no longer residing in the state that sent him to Congress and was living instead outside the Beltway in Leesburg, Virginia. Santorum owned, and still does, a house in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, next door to his in-laws. The Santorums bought the three-bedroom house in 1997 for $87,800. But after Santorum got elected to the Senate in 1994, he bought a much larger home in Virginia that would accommodate his ever-growing family. Some relatives moved into the Penn Hills house, but Santorum continued to use it to claim residency in Pennsylvania, where he voted by absentee ballot.

Despite moving his family to Virginia, Santorum didn't enroll his children in a local public school. Nor did the Santorums simply home-school the kids. Instead, in 2001, they enrolled five of their kids in the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, based out of tiny Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
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But Santorum wasn't always so opposed to government-run schools—especially one Pennsylvania cyber charter school that offered students free computers, internet service, and online classes. Between 2001 and 2004, that online school allowed the Santorum family to live in Virginia, while sticking Pennsylvania taxpayers with a $100,000 bill.

In the end, with Democrats challenging his residency in the state, Santorum withdrew his kids from the school. He never repaid a dime. The state ended up settling with the school district and repaying $55,000 in tuition fees. (The Santorum campaign did not respond to a request for comment.)

Pat Riot

(446 posts)
6. Maybe the students have no respect for authority
Sun Oct 25, 2015, 03:09 PM
Oct 2015

because this same high school has at least 3 cases of teachers having sex with students, then had police come and tell them they're not allowed to talk about it. Like statutory rape, OK if you keep it shushed, but First Amendment be damned.

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