On Monday May 18, PBS’s News Hour will be visiting Hartford Public High School. They will arrive at 7:00am and are scheduled to interview superintendent Steven Adamoski. And to make sure everything looks good on camera, they’re sequestering the trouble kids.
News Hour is reportedly coming to cover the four academies at Hartford Public, as part of the school district’s reform strategy. The school recently moved to compartmentalize its students, with mixed public reaction. Currently, the academies are: freshman, nursing, green technology and engineering, and law and government. Each academy has its own principal, office and staff.
However, when the News Hour crew arrives on Monday, they won’t find any of the school’s troublesome students. According to sources inside the school, the freshman academy principal emailed staff with a list of students who are to be kept in a designated room all day. The email had a euphemistic subject: “Student Dispersal.” The implication is that other academies are doing the same.
The school community was also informed that all events for Monday are canceled, which includes Senior Pajama Day. This announcement was made over the school public address system. The announcement also ordered that everyone must be in “complete uniform.”
No criteria have been made available for how students were identified to be on the list.
standard procedure at any school to hide the troubled special education students when people come to visit. that special education teacher fights the good fight every day. some days you win. some days you lose.
As far as I could infer, the students identified on the list were “troublemakers,” not necessarily special ed. But we all know that special ed kids are often seen as troublemakers because teachers/administrators do not recognize the signs of a learning disability or attention deficit disorder.
Can someone verify this? I am going to ask my daughter LInnea, a senior at HPHS, what is happening. If I find out this is going on I will be at HPHS at 7am as a parent and PTSO exec Brd member to provide a reality check.
I’m going to send an email to Andrea Comer. She’s on the Board of Ed.
Great attitude Dave I. That’s the same attitude that some of the kids go to school with and have weapons on them. They have no problem putting the teacher’s and principal’s life in danger.REALITY CHECK!!!!!!! IF there are troubled or disrupting kids maybe they should not be there or their parents should have taught them how to behave…..REALITY CHECK!!!!!
That’s extremely insightful, Mike. Is this the part where we’re supposed to be outraged by your little rant? Just go back to the Rush Limbaugh blog where you will be embraced by your fellow peons. You’re just trying to get attention.