Fight Club comes to a Kansas City School. Let's blame Opie.

A Kansas city school teacher is drawing fire for a video that ended up on You Tube. Your first thought if you haven't heard about this already, might be to assume the teacher made some kind of provocative video that has jumped up to bite him in the ass. Not so. The video was taken by a student in the classroom, a classroom that was one big circus, I might add. You can see the video and read more here. You can also read a post by RDM regarding the teacher's response about his image being used sans his consent. He makes the case that the incident is another black eye for the KC school district, and he is right. I think it's more than just another black eye, here's why.

One of the 3 original videos showed an all out fist flying brawl going on in the school hallway. The classroom video shows students completely out of control. The teacher a young-ish white guy is pretty much ignoring the bedlam going on around him. I'd say that's a pretty fair example of one of the many issues surrounding our schools in the inner city. It's business as usual and a telling example of how far down the tubes the KC school district has gone. I wouldn't have bothered to write a single sentence on the subject if not for the reaction of the school district as evidenced by the official statement of the district by Cynthia Wheeler-Linden, a spokeswoman for Kansas City Public Schools. Ms. Linden delivered this pile of horse shit on the news in response to the video.

"To openly allow a student to violate policy, I'm sure on behalf of the administration and the board, it is just not acceptable behavior," and this "I mean, that was clearly inappropriate," said Wheeler-Linden. "It's clearly inappropriate for them to bring videos or cell phones into the classroom or any items like that."

Are you kidding me? That's the response? You have 2 kids beating the cowboy shit out of one another in the halls, you have pandemonium in the classroom, students are dancing in the hallways like a New Mexico prison riot, and the best you come up with is that the teacher was to blame? Yea, that's the ticket, lets shift all the blame on the teacher. Never mind that anyone working in the school while this shit is going on had to be aware of it. Never mind that there was clearly a lack of order or supervision in general and not just isolated to one classroom. Let's blame it all on the underpaid Opie look alike, who was so far out of his element that all he could muster the courage to say was turn the camera off.

This is just one more example of a school district rife with incompetent and down right stupid administration. Want to known why there has been a major white flight from the Kansas City School district dating back to the 1980's? White people have fled the KC schools , because they CAN, and trust me African American families would make a mass exodus out of there if they could. What I fail to understand is why more parents aren't outraged over the lack of order, supervision and incompetence. The school board burns through Superintendents like Liz Taylor goes through husbands, they bicker, they in fight, they waste money, they are a joke.

You don't have to be the head cashier of the drive through to figure out what is really wrong with the KC school district. It's pure unadulterated complacency by a group of people who lack the skill and foresight to run a school district. In the end the kids pay for it. The same ol same. Families who can afford to move , flee the district. The poorest kids, who need the education the most, are left to stagnate in schools run by people who really couldn't care less. If you ever wondered why kid's in the inner city get caught up in crime, why young black kid's end up dead or in prison at alarming rates, look no further than what passes for an educational institution in this city. It's not rocket science, in order to make it with any degree of success today, you must have an education. you cant get one in schools that lack any semblance of order.