St. Paul schools looking to ease concerns about discipline, disorder

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1. Herd is why we gave up on our public school system.

Chong Thao, who teaches at Como Park Senior High and was one of the five teachers who had challenged district leaders, said in a statement to the board in April: “There are students who are frustrated with the elevated levels of disruption in classrooms. There are students who feel unsafe and anxious as they witness a school out of control, where fights occur on a weekly if not daily basis.”

We wanted to be good progressive parents and work with our local principal and school district to make our local school a safe and sane learning environment. But through all the speeches, programs, and promises that things will get better, our son was still getting beaten up at least once a week. And that was in KINDERGARTEN. We could not bear to think what waited for him when he reached middle school. That's the chief problem with improving an education system. Time is a luxury parents just do not have.