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It’s just so hard cause we’re all trying to process this and get our emotions in order and that’s hard enough already and seeing multiple media outlets blast it all over (including local news and BET) isn’t helping and it seems like it’s getting worse and worse and this sucks and I could really use a big hug from Harry atm
स्कूल में शर्मनाक हरकत: अर्की में 14 साल की छात्रा के साथ अश्लील व्यवहार, शिक्षक गिरफ्तार
Teacher arrested: सोलन जिला के अर्की क्षेत्र में एक दिल दहलाने वाली घटना ने सभी को झकझोर कर रख दिया है। एक स्कूल शिक्षक पर 14 साल की नाबालिग छात्रा के साथ अश्लील व्यवहार करने का गंभीर आरोप लगा है। इस घटना ने गुरु-शिष्य के पवित्र रिश्ते को शर्मसार कर दिया है। स्थानीय समुदाय में गुस्सा और निराशा का माहौल है, और लोग इस तरह की घटनाओं को रोकने के लिए कठोर कदम उठाने की मांग कर रहे हैं। मां की शिकायत…
School Scandal story (long ish post)
I am watching Young Sheldon and this episode reminded me of a incident my old high school was involved in.
A few years ago my Principle and I think a teacher or 2 suddenly were gone and us students didn't know why.
It wasn't till my maths teacher blabbed that we knew anything for a fact. Our principle had been taking money out of the drama/science budget and was putting it into the sports budget.
He even hired unqualified family members to be teachers in the special sports classes. It was funny because we were definitely a sports school with 2 ovals and a kinda 2 story gym.
(Despite us being one of the poorest schools in town. Our equipment was horrible and it took 2 years for 1 ramp to be built so that a wheelchair using student could get to the good oval)
So many other classes were underfunded due to it and we had a substitute princable till after I graduated.
Trust me the school was a mess, Food Studies (My fav class) was where all the bad students went because the teachers were not paid enough to care. One kid set a microwave on fire (It was a cake that was meant to go in there so we were old confused on how.) It was also the school where a teacher got in trouble for screaming at me in front of the whole class because we both made small mistakes that caused me to be in the wrong classroom. 2 other classes heard him and I cried then he never spoke to me again.
The last thing I will say for now is this school prided itself on being inclusive of all races, genders and sexualities but I held my first girlfriends hand (I thought I was cis at the time) and the teacher told me we were being inappropriate.
Wait this is the last story, during an assembly a bunch of dudes were clearly arguing on who got this girl pregnant.....I never knew the girl but I hope she ended up ok.
(Feel free to ask for more stories I have plenty)
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T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges. But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.
BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Bryson Sassau’s application would inspire any college admissions officer.
A founder of T.M. Landry College Preparatory School described him as a “bright, energetic, compassionate and genuinely well-rounded” student whose alcoholic father had beaten him and his mother and had denied them money for food and shelter. His transcript “speaks for itself,” the founder, Tracey Landry, wrote, but Mr. Sassau should also be lauded for founding a community service program, the Dry House, to help the children of abusive and alcoholic parents. He took four years of honors English, the application said, was a baseball M.V.P. and earned high honors in the “Mathematics Olympiad.”
The narrative earned Mr. Sassau acceptance to St. John’s University in New York. There was one problem: None of it was true.
“I was just a small piece in a whole fathom of lies,” Mr. Sassau said.
T.M. Landry has become a viral Cinderella story, a small school run by Michael Landry, a teacher and former salesman, and his wife, Ms. Landry, a nurse, whose predominantly black, working-class students have escaped the rural South for the nation’s most elite colleges. A video of a 16-year-old student opening his Harvard acceptance letter last year has been viewed more than eight million times. Other Landry students went on to Yale, Brown, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell and Wesleyan.
Landry success stories have been splashed in the past two years on the “Today” show, “Ellen” and the “CBS This Morning.” Education professionals extol T.M. Landry and its 100 or so kindergarten-through-12th-grade students as an example for other Louisiana schools. Wealthy supporters have pushed the Landrys, who have little educational training, to expand to other cities. Small donors, heartened by the web videos, send in a steady stream of cash.
In reality, the school falsified transcripts, made up student accomplishments and mined the worst stereotypes of black America to manufacture up-from-hardship tales that it sold to Ivy League schools hungry for diversity. The Landrys also fostered a culture of fear with physical and emotional abuse, students and teachers said. Students were forced to kneel on rice, rocks and hot pavement, and were choked, yelled at and berated.
The Landrys’ deception has tainted nearly everyone the school has touched, including students, parents and college admissions officers convinced of a myth.
The colleges “want to be able to get behind the black kids going off and succeeding, and going to all of these schools,” said Raymond Smith Jr., who graduated from T.M. Landry in 2017 and enrolled at N.Y.U. He said that Mr. Landry forced him to exaggerate his father’s absence from his life on his N.Y.U. application.
“It’s a good look,” these colleges “getting these bright, high-flying, came-from-nothing-turned-into-something students,” Mr. Smith said.
This portrait of T.M. Landry emerged from interviews with 46 people: parents of former Landry students; current and former students; former teachers; and law enforcement agents. The New York Times also examined student records and court documents showing that Mr. Landry and another teacher at the school had pleaded guilty to crimes related to violence against students, and police records that included multiple witness statements saying that Mr. Landry hit children. The Breaux Bridge Police Department closed the case after deciding it was outside of its jurisdiction.
“That dream you see on television, all those videos,” said Mr. Sassau’s mother, Alison St. Julien, “it’s really a nightmare.”
In an interview with The Times, the Landrys denied falsifying transcripts and college applications, but Mr. Landry admitted that he hit students and could be rough. “Oh, I yell a lot,” he said. He goads black and white students to compete against one another because that is how the real world works, he said.
In 2013, Mr. Landry was sentenced to probation and attended an anger management program after pleading guilty to a count of battery. Despite the documentation, he insisted that he did not plead guilty or serve probation. Mr. Landry said that the victim was a student whose mother asked him to hit her child, and he said he had eased up on physical punishments.
“I don’t do that anymore,” he said.
Instead, he calls himself a “drill sergeant” or “coach,” and asks children to kneel before him to learn humility, for five minutes at most, Mr. Landry said.
That is not how the students have experienced it. Tyler Sassau, Mr. Sassau’s brother, said he can still feel the humiliation and smell the stench on his clothes from kneeling last year on a bathroom floor for nearly two hours.
“I wasn’t going to get up without asking him because if I did, I could’ve got something worse,” he said. “I could barely stand when I got up.”
In their defense, the Landrys touted the school’s ACT scores and high graduation and college enrollment statistics.
“We get pushed under the microscope, or under the dagger,” Mr. Landry said, because “it had been just black kids going. Society kept saying all these negative things about us because it was just easy to beat this broken-down school.”
The students who navigated the Landrys’ system and made it to the nation’s top colleges now face their own quandaries.
“I really believe that we all thought we were doing the right thing at the time, and didn’t have a choice,” Mr. Smith said.
“It was a cultish mentality.”
T.M. Landry produced its first graduating class in 2013, and since then, 50 students have graduated, according to the school’s promotional materials. They have had mixed success in college.
Some alumni, especially those who spent only a short time at T.M. Landry, have been successful. Bryson Sassau did well in his classes at St. John’s, although he had to quit some advanced science and math courses. Mr. Smith also did well, but with debts mounting had to drop out after his freshman year. Another Landry graduate said he feels at home at Brown in his junior year, has maintained good grades and was recently accepted into a program that prepares students to pursue a doctoral degree.
The student in the most viral video, who spent only a short time at Landry, is in his first semester at Harvard. Other Landry students have been admitted to Harvard over the past three years, but the university declined to provide information on their status.
For yet other Landry students, particularly those who spent multiple years at the school, the results after graduation have been disappointing. Some have withdrawn from college, or transferred to less rigorous programs.
Asja Jackson, whose Wesleyan University acceptance video also went viral, decided to leave this month after she said she fell into a depression over her first-semester struggles. She said she “froze and failed” her first chemistry tests and walked out of a biology exam. Her papers, she said, were “childish,” and she was too embarrassed to attend a writing workshop.
She studied and worked through the night, like she had done at T.M. Landry since eighth grade, but she just was not “catching it,” she said. She said she eventually stopped eating, talking to her friends, leaving her room or going to class.
“I didn’t understand why people around me were doing well, and I wasn’t,” said Ms. Jackson, who took the advice of her dean and started medical leave. “I couldn’t tell my friends because they would say, ‘How did you get into the school then?’ There were too many questions that I couldn’t answer.”
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This is beyond horrifying!!
The New York Times article came out on Nov. 30, 2018.
Craig Melvin, from the TODAY show, went down to the school to see their unconventional methods for himself in October 2018. The same way he felt before walking in there is the same way he felt upon leaving: Everybody in there is brainwashed. His colleagues were appalled by his remark.
Below is a video The New York Times also paired with the article above, which features testimonies from former students and more:
So daily mail and fox both wrote articles about it…still had news reporters outside and today my dad took me to the JHU campus (it’s my dream school) and I was wearing a sweatshirt with my schools logo on it and people were looking at me weird…it makes me so sad
A puzzling school scandal when swept under the carpet, will taint what is a fine academic institution
A puzzling school scandal when swept under the carpet, will taint what is a fine academic institution
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