Mark Pellin called this the other day when reporting that assaults on CMS teachers had jumped to 169 last year. CMS would point to the drop in firearms in schools as a big positive:
The decline, however, can be a double-edged sword: When the number of reported firearm cases increases, school officials take credit for recovering more guns; conversely, when the number declines, it could mean those same officials are letting more guns slip unnoticed into the classroom.
Sure enough, this morning’s screaming UPoR hed — Violence up at CMS, but fewer guns found.
What a joke. By every reasonable measure, CMS schools are getting more violent, not less. And we already know that CMS is using definitional mumbo-jumbo to make the number of suspensions appear to shrink.
A few schools have what can only be described as chronic violence problems, yet CMS is loathe to single them out — more of the district’s misplaced egalitarianism.
But enough of words, actions speak louder than. Action now. Observe all.
