Personal Narrative: The Florida Education Funding Program

Today is Valentine's Day and I have nothing to do. Today I went to my brothers basketball game. They won 38-30 against auburn-y. This was a elimination game. I can't believe those ballers pulled it offing fugu. I mean when I was in 6th grade we didn't even make playoffs. Still single as always but I hope that will change. I like Evelyn Kitchen but I don't know if she likes me. I wimped out to ask her to dance with me and another kid in my advisory likes her too. It's pretty obvious. I just don't know if she likes me. I told my mom and dad and they told me to ask her. The worst thing that can happen is she says no and I get embarrassed to death. The next dance there is in March I'm going to ask her. I should probably explain

A few weeks ago I went to Florida with my grandparents, they are the best. I was so excited and the drive to the airport took forever. The plane ride took a really long time, and when we finally got to Florida it was late. When I woke up the next morning I went to the beach and the sand was super-hot on my feet, but once I went in the water I cooled off. The sun was always shining and it was really hot. I forgot to put sunscreen on one day and I turned bright red. There were a lot of palm trees in my surroundings. The condo that we stayed was a very popular place because a lot of people stayed there. There was so much stuff to do and see that we couldn’t do everything that we wanted to. We went and packed oranges from the trees, ive never seen

Through my teaching experience I have found that school violence encompasses many forms such as verbal harassment, non-verbal harassment, cyber-bullying, intimidation and any act that devalues a student’s self-worth. According to Detroit Public Schools, “it is the intention of the District to provide as safe and nonviolent learning environment for its employees, students, parents, and visitors as is possible. To this end, the District strives to maintain an environment free of threats, harassment, intimidation, physical and verbal abuse, and coercion” (Detroit Public Schools, 2009). The purpose of this policy is create a safe environment where students are free from any tape of harassment. The policy goes on to state it is the staff's responsibility to, “be educated and aware of potential signs and signals of violent or threatening behavior in students”(Detroit Public Schools, 2009). In other words, it is necessary for the school staff to remain vigilant of these signs and address them as soon as appear. Based off the nature of the action the school will follow a course of discipline suited to the accused

In order to implement this policy, responsibility will be bestowed upon the “Foundation School Program” and the Texas state Legislature (Grusendorf, 2015, pg.2). These two groups play the most vital role in changing and implementing the new “state formulas” (Grusendorf, 2015, pg.3). Both will work together in creating and agreeing to the new state formulas. We will review the formulas every year and decide if funding is truly being distributed with equity. Only if they are not then will both organizations have to re-write the formulas to improve upon them.

KRS 525.070 (2008) states that a person is guilty of harassment when, with the intent to intimidate, harass, annoy or alarm another person, he or she, being enrolled as a student in a local school district, and while on school premises, on school -sponsored transportation, or at a school-sponsored event, a student does one of the following: (1) Damages or commits a theft of the property of another student, (2) substantially disrupts the operation of the school, or (3) Creates a hostile environment by means of any gestures, written communications, oral statements, or physical acts that a reasonable person under the

A teacher is obligated to defuse classroom conflicts that could turn into a bullying situation due to bullying overlapping with harassment in some states. In Texas, the terms are used separately, but this is only a distinction in law, with no model policies in place for the schools to use as a guideline on how to resolve conflicts such as bullying. The implementation of anti-bullying policies and how they are handled are ultimately left to the school district to decide. Despite the policies being left to the districts, the teachers still have an ethical obligation to reasonably protect the students from an environment that is harmful to their learning, or health and safety. Due to this obligation, reporting to the principal is used and the

Bullying is defined in the Idaho State Legislature Title 18 Crimes and Punishments Chapter 9 Assault and Battery as, “… “harassment, intimidation or bullying” means any intentional gesture, or any intentional written, verbal or physical act or threat by a student that: (a) a reasonable person under the circumstances should know will have the effect of: (i) harming a student; or (ii) damaging a student’s property; or (iii) placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to his or her person; or (iv) placing a student in reasonable fear of damage to his or her property…”(Idaho State Legislature). This particular policy seems kind of vague regrading who is a “reasonable person”? The issue of bullying is nothing new. Individuals who feel that they are superior to others will find a way to either intimidate or bully an individual to get what he or she needs and have a complete disregard to that individual’s psyche. And if those individuals who have children who see their parent intimidate or bullying others, they will come to think that sort of behavior is normal and will see nothing wrong with it. Individuals and children need to feel safe in their environment, when you take that away, it can result in people getting

One of the most common asked questions is if bullying is considered a civil rights violation and the answer can vary from state to state and even all over the globe. In a couple of states in North America it is considered a felony to bully other kids and the punishment can vary from being suspended to even spend a couple of nights in the county jail. It’s stated that “the DOE has rightly framed the issue of bullying in schools as one of an institutional responsibility-one that can even get schools legal trouble if it is ignored. Among other things, the letter says that “some student misconduct that falls under a school’s anti-bullying policy also may trigger responsibilities under one or more of the federal anti-discrimination laws” (Costello, Maureen). “In the DOE it also states that all of the teachers need to look beyond the single incidents of bullying and examine the nature of the conduct for all civil rights violations. If some of the bully’s behavior is based on perceptions about someone’s nationality, color, disability, sex, or race. And the school administrators are all supposed to be keeping all the of the civil rights laws at the top of their head” (Costello, Maureen) so they can keep it at the ready so if they need to use it at any point in their life they can easily just think it and there on their way to help out the student if needed.it is said that when the child or children are labeled as bullies or the victims it can possibly be a message the child’s

Sight and hearing are just two of our five senses. Losing only one of them would be awful. How would you react if you were told that you had three days left to see and hear? The problem is that nobody truly appreciates what they have until it’s gone. “Sometimes the best way to appreciate something is to be without it for a while,” -Unknown.

On Monday, February 29, 2016, I interviewed Dr. K. Wallace, District Administrator for Millbrook Public School District. The interview was on the topic of ethical fairness in education. Dr. Wallace discussed the issue of disciplinary infractions for high school students. He pointed out that bullying and acts of violence are becoming a major problem for administrators. According to Dr. Wallace, administrators must learn how to strike a balance in respecting the rights of children and eradicating acts of bullying and violence.

The difficulty of creating a new and effective idea is immense in today’s society, and establishing a code of conduct is no exception. A code of conduct is important material that can be used to solve many cases, but it is not a comprehensive solution when left on its own. There are many factors that lead to the code to result in being completely defective, and one being that schools lack the necessary ideas to help accommodate all specific needs and individuals. The code of conduct is a constant debatable topic that has to be updated frequently in order to appeal to the alternating societal issues that are bullying and harassment. This has become a substantial problem in society in the past decades, ever since the introduction of social media

The first time I went to Saint Augustine, transpired in the fifth grade, for a field trip, we rode charter buses there and back, which ensued the first time I had been on a charter bus. My mother, planned to be a chaperone on the field trip, however, she just had my baby sister and could not come, nonetheless making it the first significant field trip that I went to without her. It remained incredibly cold outside when we arrived, nonetheless we all had a pleasurable time. First, we went on a tour through the oldest city in Florida’s downtown area, there we started the tour all the historical buildings and learn the history of them. First, we visited the school, a little one room shack that had held the students that were permitted to attend.

Background of bullying policies. In the past, local districts monitored bullying prevention activities, but later it was moved to state houses in order for state legislators to amend public school laws. The federal government mandates that the states create schools laws that are safe for students in order to receive federal funding. In 2001, the No Child Left Behind included the (SDFSC, Title IV, Part A) which is known as the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Community Act. Gastic (2010) explained, that also included was the Unsafe School Choice Option (Section 9532) where students were allowed to attend another school if their current school is considered dangerous (as cited in Edmondson and Zeman, 2011). The author's

I believe bullying laws should be strict throughout every state in the United States of America however that is not the case for every state today. Depending on the state of which one resides, school officials can address bullying on their own terms. However, this can be an issue if there are no solid laws within that state to protect students from being bullied. Without proper state policies, schools fail to initiate prevention programs or simply lack the knowledge to create, interpret, and enforce anti-bullying programs. State policies of Ohio and Pennsylvania will be compared to show the discrepancies in prevention of bullying and how state laws protect students who fall victim of being bullied.

Lawmakers, activists, and parents have all been working to institute laws to help reconcile the bullying that has invaded the schools. It has not been a speedy process, only nine states require the schools to report bullying to the local authorities (Garby, 2013). New Jersey has the stiffest anti-bullying law thus far, by suspending or