Comments on: Tensions surface at Canton Middle School meeting http://www.baltimoreguide.com/2008/05/07/tensions-surface-canton-middle-school-meeting/ Baltimore's Neighborhood Newspaper since 1927 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:20:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Kim Kramer-Zamenski http://www.baltimoreguide.com/2008/05/07/tensions-surface-canton-middle-school-meeting/#comment-9229 Kim Kramer-Zamenski Mon, 12 May 2008 19:48:33 +0000 http://www.baltimoreguide.com/2008/05/07/tensions-surface-canton-middle-school-meeting/#comment-9229 The Canton community have valid concerns regarding the behavior of some of the children who cause problems in the community. These problems should have been addressed sooner. Residents have every right to be angry with the political officals and administrators who have ignored these problems. There are steps that should have been taken sooner that were not taken because everyone kept ignoring the problems thinking in June of 09 it would be over and it would be someone elses problem (Patterson High School community). However, there are a lot of children in Canton Middle School who want to learn and who have been labeled because of a few. As a parent I am appalled at the behavior of the adults and some of the political officials who assume all of the children in the school are a problem. No one I don't care who you are, how old you are, what social class you think are in, has the right to call these children names. The residents need to stop trying to taunt these children into doing something they shouldn't. People need to start focusing on the children who want to learn. Instead of showing all of use that the bad apple gets the worm. The Canton community have valid concerns regarding the behavior of some of the children who cause problems in the community. These problems should have been addressed sooner. Residents have every right to be angry with
the political officals and administrators who have ignored these problems. There are steps that should have been taken sooner that were not taken because everyone kept ignoring the problems thinking in June of 09 it would be over and it would be someone elses problem (Patterson High School community). However, there are a lot of children in Canton Middle School who want to learn and who have been labeled because of a few.

As a parent I am appalled at the behavior of the adults and some of the political officials who assume all of the children in the school are a problem. No one I don’t care who you are, how old you are, what social class you think are in, has the right to call these children names. The residents need to stop trying to taunt these children into doing something they shouldn’t.

People need to start focusing on the children who want to learn. Instead of showing all of use that the bad apple gets the worm.

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