For instance, the court noted that educators may use any of a variety of procedures when responding to dangerous students, such as study carrels, time-outs, detention, restriction of privileges, or suspensions for up to 10 days.
At the same time, the court pointed out that educators were not without options when dealing with potentially dangerous students.
State investigators had uncovered evidence that the educators in court, and others who had previously taken plea deals, had been part of a scheme where children were told the answers to standardized national tests or allowed to alter test papers.
So far, the carnivore-unfriendly choice does not seem to have elicited any complaints from the local barbecue industry, though the state's educators have courted controversy before.
Amid stormy scenes in an Atlanta court on Tuesday, 10 corrupt educators who orchestrated a long-running test-cheating system in the city were given heavy prison terms after refusing to take a sentencing deal offered by the judge.
Judge Steve Leifman, Associate Administrative Judge of the Miami-Dade Chairy Cofrtheriminal Division and Chair oFlorida Supreme Court Court's Task Force on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in the Court, explains, "Many of our educators are reacting to the negative behaviors these children are exhibiting and not addressing the causes.
The court is as much an educator, a moral instructor, as an interpreter of the fundamental law of the land.
Professor Pangloss: The royal educator of the court of the baron.
For starters, it calls on the next mayor to convene an interagency leadership team — including educators, social service officials, court officials and others — to keep more students safely in school while cutting down on the use of the harshest measures.
Picketing teachers have been booed and cursed by passing drivers; death threats have flooded the local school board office; and at least four educators, disgusted by the court proceedings, have resigned on the spot rather than go to jail.
