KCAL I hope you are reading these comments. For years, the district has made teachers the fall guy for poor student behavior. They blame teachers and "classroom management." In many cases, teachers can no longer post disciplinary incidents on the MISIS platform. Four years ago when I posted that a chronically out of control student had called me a b_________ an administrator tried to admonish me because I had posted what the student had said word for word. When they tried to tell me I couldn't do that I referred them to my union. But to be honest, UTLA is also part of the problem because they promote a culture of victimization among students and the community. Teachers can still suspend students using a special form but most are afraid to do so. To complicate matters, because of pressure brought to bear on LAUSD teachers to pass every student, you don't have a real academic environment on a large number of campuses. This stabbing just scratches the surface. You need to talk to teachers throughout the district about the gaslighting that admins do to teachers who attempt to report incidents.
This is the absolute true. I even witnessed this when I was a kid myself. The bad students in class always got away with so much crap and the teachers would get the blame. Now I’m not saying all teachers are innocent however, there are a lot of great teachers out there who do not deserve to be blamed and treated poorly. These kids lack discipline and self respect which is setting them up for failure.
And as a result, teachers are quitting en masse, which is leading to higher and higher teacher-to-student ratios. I feel so bad for the teachers who care and the better behaved students.
Same situation in my OCPS school. If there was an unplanned, surprised (truly surprised, not forewarned and planned) investigation, you'd find out how many problems there are in school. When I tried to report, a clear message was conveyed, "mind your own business or your life is hell." It is hell now, and there's nothing I can do about it short of quitting. Also, the most ironic thing was the message "Be careful not to be a racist against minorities!" I was only telling the truth, and the population w/a similar skin color to mine is about 5% of the school population.
My sister retired a couple of years ago, she enjoyed her job, but there’s a shift in the school system these days, students are now in control, and with the lack of parenting at an all time high in homes these days, schools are a dangerous place.
How come this doesn't surprise me ? California and their politicians have destroyed my home town. I moved away but my parents are still there and they beg me to move home but California is a mess it's just not the same anymore 😢
The school is 100% negligent and tried to cover it up obviously. My daughter recently got in a fight and they called me immediately. She was ambushed by a girl. They have cameras all over the entire school and saw it from many angles. The cops were there on campus as well as school security, we went through disciplinary action although they couldn't give me names of the other students for fear of retaliation. They gave me resources for on campus and local police. They were very informative. They allowed her to switch classes, escorted her around campus so she felt safe. This is how it should be. This student was stabbed on campus? Immediately the parents and the cops should have been called. Sue the school!
Lausd doesn't care! They don't protect their students or their staff. I was attacked by a student and nothing happened but me being forced to retire due to injury. It's no way a student is stabbed and NO ONE called the parents or police? The district needs to be sued and the admin at this school need to be replaced.
@@sareptasweetie1978is this a public school or a charter. On the east coast we have alternative schools and once children become problematic they have to go to that type of school. They no longer get to be in general Ed classes. This doesn’t resolve everything but it does make a difference in some repeated offenses.
Just ask ur child the name lol 😂 that’s funny honestly… my family would speak to the others parents when I was young this is so crazy! These are children like I can’t even fathom this type of behavior when I was in high school I’m not even old I’m under 30… 😂 that’s wild! What is happening dude seriously!? Ha
This doesn't even include assaults on staff. I had a student attack me and I haven't worked in five years due to injury and was FORCED to retire. Student had no consequences and parents were NOT notified about it either. The problem is the district doesn't care about what goes on in inner city schools. These type of incidents wouldn't fly in more affluent areas of LAUSD. Parents don't have any control of their kids and these kids are allowed to do whatever WITHOUT consequences from home or at school. Lausd needs to be dismantled and made into smaller districts. It's too big to be effective.
True story: when my child was assigned to Polytechnic High (from a gifted middle school), the kids who were about to graduate from Poly, our neighbors, came to my home to BEG ME not to let them go there. I had to do a lot of networking in order to find out WHY an “A” student was being put on a wait list for the gifted high school program. Turns out they had MIS-LABELED her application as “NEW”. I will be forever thankful for the intervention of those young people. They knew what my child would be up against…🙏🏽💙🇺🇸💙
Parents’ lack of response to cutting police protection is fundamentally telling these kids that murderous behaviors are OK, because adults look the other way. That also gives parents who don’t teach their children responsible behaviors an easy avoidance of their parental duties. It is precisely when children are at their worse behaviors that parents should be held accountable.
If they took just a few million from every program we send overseas or a little bit of the money we waste in this country like 55,000 more IRS agents, we could hire some more school resource officers or armed security officers with tasers pepper spray to at least stop the threat of violence in school. We got plenty of former military police and infantry personal to cover each school.
@@SiikPros No, the CRIMINAL students are to blame. And those students are violent for many reasons, MOST of which are with the main responsible party: The Parents.
@@gardennovice7896 Those positions in the IRS are not new, but replacements for retirements and people leaving, and the funds are to make up for them being underfunded for a LONG time. Keep your ignorance to yourself. Sheesh.
First day of kindergarten, my kid was taken from me into the building and I was not allowed inside. I was not allowed to see the conditions. They had to walk around the halls with their arms twisted and hands clasped and fill their cheeks with air. The school didn't notify us of the bullying, someone was stealing my kids lunch and snacks from her bag in the hallway, the lice outbreak, the pinworm outbreak... We started homeschooling after they fired the teacher and moved an angry and bitter 6th grade teacher to the kindergarten room.
Wow, you really aren't a very good parent. I knew exactly what the school and classroom were like BEFORE the first day. I had spoken to her teacher, and then arranged to volunteer in the classroom. And now your kid will never get into a really good college because you were lazy.
School employees would lose their jobs if they spoke to media, they're not allowed. It's why the principal of poly kept referring the reporter to Operations. The reality is that the situation is not black and white- it's super grey, and trying to scapegoat one group whether it's school administrators, politicians, parents, students or teachers won't solve the issues :(
Why is the news media blaming the school, and the mother blames the school....is this for ratings.......blame the kids and the patents for raising them that way
If the kids are in school for the majority of the waking hours, shouldn't the school be responsible the kids behavior? Maybe we need to take a hard look how our kids are being treated when they aren't at home.
@@Adelicows well, it was easy to see your age......my piont was, the news coverage was more about vitimising everyone and not putting the kids at fault for there actions
Exactly the kid who got “ stabbed “ was into the fight I’m sure he didn’t just get in the fight for no apparent reason . He looked involved until he got “ stabbed “. The mother should be embarrassed talking about this on camera. It all starts at home. And people telling her to sue the school yeah sue and take away the few money the school has for resources away from a school who is already in a barley middle class area.
Back in 2000, my son didn't last 6 months in Cal Poly High School in Riverside, CA. At the time I worked with Law Enforcement in a building in Corona, and the secretary also had a son in the school since his freshman year. She always seemed to be "tipped off" about gang incidents, which is exactly what they were - the Mexicans against the Blacks either during school hours (gym class) or after school, with the white kids getting caught in the crossfire. The THIRD time I had to run out of that building behind Bonnie to pull my son out of school before the shooting or stabbing started, was the LAST time. Back to NJ we went, where sadly, there were still problems with BLACK students in the school, but luckily there were few enough of them so that they could be CONTAINED AND CONTROLLED.
And you have no blame in this? Maybe u were once a teen mom if your monster went to high school in 2000? Teen moms are the worst. Even your favorite white teen moms aren’t as perfect as you think.
Article from Feb 2021 “LA School Board Unanimously Votes to Remove Officers From Campuses, Approves Black Student Investment” Hey KCAL , are you too lazy to do some research?
No California has been lost a long time ago I was born and raised here it's who you vote for yeah the border has a lot to do with it but that's not the only thing it's the people that vote the same idiots time after time after time you should be able to see that.
That why my kid knows how to fight. Been training since 4 years old now she 6 and she can not let anyone bully her and I told her to do the right thing and stand up for who can't defend them self.
I went to HS in both of those school. The fact that they conceal things that happen there doesn't surprise me. I'm not going to say I stabbed people like those mentioned in the video, but I wouldn't doubt that even what I did in HS back in the day got covered up as well. Those days are now long over, but I still don't doubt for a bit that they keep covering up. Wouldn't doubt they would have started covering things up ever since the early 90's which was before I went to either of those HS's.
Safety starts from the home! If your Son's/Daughters dress and act like gangstas, then where are the parents? I'm sure, The teachers and stuff are not trained to be law enforcements. They're there to teach whoever wants to learn and if the others are just there wasting time, smoking, drinking and getting high, those are the ones you should be asking where are their parents! What going on in the home!!
Blame the fact that teachers are not allowed to discipline students, not allowed to make kids feel "uncomfortable", and school districts who only implement half of "restorative justice". Restorative justice is supposed to put into place steps to keep kids of color from being suspended for unjust reasons. However, there is another part. Discipline for students who break rules. That doesn't happen. And disruptive students know it. TEACHERS HAVE NO POWER TO DISCIPLINE STUDENTS AND THEY KNOW IT!
I agree. As a district employee of 23 years this is so true. I would call the office when students were combative and the administrators would say and I quote " pick your battles" like I want this kid to stop throwing chairs come get him. Nope. Kids know that teachers and staff have NO support and know they will face no consequences and their parents are rarely called.
It's true but I also think- 1) the district gets sued all the time, and they are going to adjust policies to protect themselves. Unfortunately, in my opinion, that has created an environment of less accountability overall for students. 2) Schools are not the sole proprietors of student behavior- they don't exist in a bubble. Right now, in the Northeast SFV there is a huge gang issue, you can't talk about the increase in violence on school campuses and not also include that that increase in violence is a byproduct of the increase in crime and gang activity in the surrounding communities. Come on channel 5, you can do better than scapegoat reporting right?
Parents first mistake is to think that any school system will protect and is there for their children. Not at all , each child is looked at as money. They don't care about your children ! Parents need to realize that schools are run just like prisons , except in school system the students get to go home afterwards.
I don’t get it! If crime is high at school, what’s so bad about reporting it or making it known!!? parents and people in the Los Angeles county need to know how bad these MF kids are!
Of course, the adults spent that time finding ways to cover their own asses and not catch the bad PR. They care about this news story more than those kids lives. Teachers shouldn't be held up on a pedestal, they're just as capable as being trash as everyone else.
Yeah, thats on brand. Its about funding. Not for the students or the teachers, but administration. So, to the kids and the parents, don’t turn in your phones, report things yourself. If somebody puts hands on you, YOU press charges. Go over their heads.
School officials indifference towards a minor student being stabbed in his premises, pieces me off, which suggest that the school is hiding something bad.,
I honestly don't think it's indifference. Anyone working at a school site, would be fired for speaking to media. They aren't allowed to comment. And in regards to the mother's comment about the school not giving her the name of the student that stabbed her son- 1) they might not have identified the student at that time- it was a huge brawl, not a one on one fight, and 2) school's aren't allowed to share ANY information about students with anyone besides district personnel and the educational rights holder. I'm really disappointed in KCAL, like honestly this reporting was just... not good. I'm not saying that what happened isn't concerning, it truly is, but media should do a better job of building an understanding of the incident and providing context instead of just building outrage.
My ex got hit by a kid in the eye (she had a really bad scratch on it) and the principal turned the other cheek. I told her f that go to a clinic and report them.
They are just doing what the police do but for free and less incident. Nobodies draining the tax payer in the meantime. Those resources should be placed into opportunities for the student. Not some bum ass security guard who wouldnt do much anyways.
If I were a teacher there I’m not sure if I’d step in to stop any of those fights which were dangerous or maybe a student remembers who called the cops and remembers me next riot.
Honestly think it’s great reporting, it’s spreading awareness. We really need to increase security/police presence at schools The trouble makers obviously have home issues but how’s that going to change the safety for students?
You'd need half a dozen or more police officers with some skilled in martial arts to handle a brawl this size. Ways of disarming the students without harming them are necessary. Security guards checking their backpacks and their person if metal detectors are not used. Where did the kid with a knife get it from? Major discussions required to address student safety.
This is obviously gang related determined by the clothing alone. Why exactly is there a cover up of over this? are they trying to protect their funding? Or do they fear retaliation or have pay offs by local gangs or cartels? Van Nuys has a massive Gang problem. I know because i grew up in the Valley. That school has cages around it... has for twenty years or more. It's like a little prison.
Those same idiots are probably the ones calling to defund the police. Hehe, you get what you voted for. It looks like South American country in LA, even mom speak Spanish to the interviewer.
One thing be a PARENT or Grandparent First. Sue School - No Call to the Police soon as possible but should land line with world of jammers. Child has to get through their own Neighborhood too. Parents need Parent immediately - no looking other Way. Start Right Today. Kids Fight- Separate Talk - Identify Injury Call the EMS 911 Immediately. Take Race Out- Darker Kid has Birth Certificate - Do Rest Children??? Recall to be Parent Grandparent or Community Member Right Away. I am displeased with your Attitude. Does other kids have school file and birth certificate? Hard feelings Mexicans born in USA- Call Immigration so other kids damage you- real History. Family owns History - Parent Truth told
Police and security guards at schools is pretty depressing. Our school in belfast had over a thousand students, never a need for mad security, worst than happened was afew fights but todays world is beyond saving. Its way too mad though in america , you can go do the weekly shopping for the family, get the food , some toiletries , apples, oranges oh and buy a rifle. NUTS
Its happening everywhere, even in grade schools. Teachers are not reporting fights, bullying, even accidents for fear of retaliation. My daughter had to call them out after three different incidents within a month's time. Asking why the school didnt notify her about a black eye her 4 yr recieved by another student, her son receiving a head injury from another student a week later no notice. My daughter called them out, then a notice and a call came in a week later that her son was hurt on the play ground and needed to go tothe E.R. After seeing this im wondering where are the teachers, aide manators and security ???? Are they all out hiding in the teacher's lounge???
How about you raise your kids better…the kid that got stabbed didn’t get stabbed for no reason. ..this was wrong, but kids in the library don’t typically get stabbed 🤔
The only guy that spoke seems like a stand up guy. Respect. That woman should be fired and never allowed to have any kind of responsibility involving children ever again
Kelly Gonez? the board member? To be honest- it's really hard for someone in that position to be able to respond immediately to individual campus incidents, whatever the media makes it sound like. They are just too far away from the day to day. I'm not making any aspertions on her job performance, i'm just saying, any board member would be hard pressed to deliver a real and authentic response to something like this, in my opinion.
I'm all for more police in campuses but let's be honest here - they'll show up when the fight's over anyways. The concealment and the lack of accountability by just about everyone in the interviews are the bigger problem here.
The Riverside unified needs to do better! Back in the 90’s it was a good school until people from Los Angeles started moving here with their gangsta trash hood mentality!
This ridiculous it makes me so mad watching this kind act . Why the hell these parents don’t discipline their children. Mom of this kid should sue LAUSD and school, where do these kids learn fight like that . What kind anger they have
The parents have 0 involvement in their childs lives thinking they provide food, clothes, and a roof is enough. They raise good for nothing idiots who wont amount to anything but still blame "the system"
Poly Tec high school is filled with students who are in gangs. It’s always been that way sadly. I’m pretty sure it’s not the first time that’s happened.
Student y’all are not safe. To many guns and knives. Too many People not doing the time for the crime they committed. Mental illness is ignored. People that has done a terrible crime. Is right back on the Streets.😢
When your career hinges on whether you have run afoul of the ever changing definition of "problematic ideas", can you really blame them for their hesitation? Is police presence on campus creating a hostile environment for minorities or is a lack of police presence endangering minorities? How much consideration should be given before action is taken? Was it enough consideration? Was there an acceptable amount of diverse viewpoints solicited before a decision was made? If a single mistake is made there can be serious litigation in store for school officials.
School staff don't care the students can be half dead and the school would just call there nurse for bandages as long as the school keeps collecting funds per student
Sometimes even with police in the school you can’t stop this. There’s a school in NY, Albany High and it’s the same thing. Riots, stabbings kids bringing guns. It’s partially the lack attitude towards teachers, the lack of respect towards them and partially the districts faults.
THIS is a consequence from the polies the majority supposedly wanted and voted for. Crime is up everywhere. The kids see there are little to no consequences for anything anymore. They will test the boundaries and do what they want until there are harsh punishments for these things. Defunding the police is obviously not the right answer. The kids and parents need to be held accountable. The school is stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they have cops at the school the parents protest and when they are not, and their little angels act up they threaten to sue. The parents and the teenagers are at fault.
The fact that the superintendent, the principal, and the elected officials don’t answer questions or do anything about these crimes, tells you about their lack of respect for the their constituents, the public, their incompetence is full display here, along with their complicity of covering it up or not doing anything about it, since their own data shows crimes in their schools have doubled. These entitled school officials and politicians have forgotten that they work for us, they forget that they owe us a response, it is our tax money, our added support, that funds and pays for all, an answer, an action plan, some accountability at minimum would be appreciated! Who am I kidding, these people don’t care, look at the video here, not one single school official out and about to put order. Parents, where are you? Take a look, these are your offspring, what values, principles are instilling in your kids? Resolve differences by stabbing? That is what they’re learning at home? Streets? Come on! Take a look, that killer, violent behavior, the stabbing, the ganging up to beat up a person without any apprehension or concern for the aftermath also speaks about the education these teens are getting at home, a bad one, as well as the school.
I know why the school didn't call it in, or even reported in on it. The reason is one thing and one thing only money Schools officials get paid the more kids go to school, if news originally had gotten out over the stabbing as well as the fighting and other violence in the schools, of course parents will pull their kids out of such violent situation. This off course effects THEIR paychecks which they don't want to lose. Again, when anything happens involivng school and school safty, it will always be about money.
seriously- ADA- is how schools are funded via the state. School site staff have NOTHING to do with that. Moreover, school site staff don't get paid any more or any less based on the number of students that attend or how often. The school budget and allocation of funding for teacher positions is based on how many students attend (if you population drops, you'll have to reduce the number of teachers) but there is no pocketing of personal money. The line the media is telling you that's what happen, but I'm aware of school policy and they aren't allowed to share any information about kids. So whether they called or not, they wouldn't be able to tell you.
KCAL I hope you are reading these comments. For years, the district has made teachers the fall guy for poor student behavior. They blame teachers and "classroom management." In many cases, teachers can no longer post disciplinary incidents on the MISIS platform. Four years ago when I posted that a chronically out of control student had called me a b_________ an administrator tried to admonish me because I had posted what the student had said word for word. When they tried to tell me I couldn't do that I referred them to my union. But to be honest, UTLA is also part of the problem because they promote a culture of victimization among students and the community. Teachers can still suspend students using a special form but most are afraid to do so. To complicate matters, because of pressure brought to bear on LAUSD teachers to pass every student, you don't have a real academic environment on a large number of campuses. This stabbing just scratches the surface. You need to talk to teachers throughout the district about the gaslighting that admins do to teachers who attempt to report incidents.
This is the absolute true. I even witnessed this when I was a kid myself. The bad students in class always got away with so much crap and the teachers would get the blame. Now I’m not saying all teachers are innocent however, there are a lot of great teachers out there who do not deserve to be blamed and treated poorly. These kids lack discipline and self respect which is setting them up for failure.
And as a result, teachers are quitting en masse, which is leading to higher and higher teacher-to-student ratios. I feel so bad for the teachers who care and the better behaved students.
Same situation in my OCPS school. If there was an unplanned, surprised (truly surprised, not forewarned and planned) investigation, you'd find out how many problems there are in school. When I tried to report, a clear message was conveyed, "mind your own business or your life is hell." It is hell now, and there's nothing I can do about it short of quitting.
Also, the most ironic thing was the message "Be careful not to be a racist against minorities!" I was only telling the truth, and the population w/a similar skin color to mine is about 5% of the school population.
My sister retired a couple of years ago, she enjoyed her job, but there’s a shift in the school system these days, students are now in control, and with the lack of parenting at an all time high in homes these days, schools are a dangerous place.
How come this doesn't surprise me ? California and their politicians have destroyed my home town. I moved away but my parents are still there and they beg me to move home but California is a mess it's just not the same anymore 😢
The school is 100% negligent and tried to cover it up obviously. My daughter recently got in a fight and they called me immediately. She was ambushed by a girl. They have cameras all over the entire school and saw it from many angles. The cops were there on campus as well as school security, we went through disciplinary action although they couldn't give me names of the other students for fear of retaliation. They gave me resources for on campus and local police. They were very informative. They allowed her to switch classes, escorted her around campus so she felt safe. This is how it should be. This student was stabbed on campus? Immediately the parents and the cops should have been called. Sue the school!
Lausd doesn't care! They don't protect their students or their staff. I was attacked by a student and nothing happened but me being forced to retire due to injury. It's no way a student is stabbed and NO ONE called the parents or police? The district needs to be sued and the admin at this school need to be replaced.
@@sareptasweetie1978is this a public school or a charter. On the east coast we have alternative schools and once children become problematic they have to go to that type of school. They no longer get to be in general Ed classes. This doesn’t resolve everything but it does make a difference in some repeated offenses.
Just ask ur child the name lol 😂 that’s funny honestly… my family would speak to the others parents when I was young this is so crazy! These are children like I can’t even fathom this type of behavior when I was in high school I’m not even old I’m under 30… 😂 that’s wild! What is happening dude seriously!? Ha
Instead of sending millions of dollars to support war they should use that many to protect our children at schools with more police !!!!
This doesn't even include assaults on staff. I had a student attack me and I haven't worked in five years due to injury and was FORCED to retire. Student had no consequences and parents were NOT notified about it either. The problem is the district doesn't care about what goes on in inner city schools. These type of incidents wouldn't fly in more affluent areas of LAUSD. Parents don't have any control of their kids and these kids are allowed to do whatever WITHOUT consequences from home or at school. Lausd needs to be dismantled and made into smaller districts. It's too big to be effective.
Was it a male or female? They hurt you brutally for you to leave work. I'm so sorry. Hope you don't ever go through any assault again
I graduated from Poly in ‘02. It was a dangerous school then. Sad to see nothing’s changed.
I was class of 02. Wutup Eddie!
Is this still Francis polytechnic in Sun valley?
True story: when my child was assigned to Polytechnic High (from a gifted middle school), the kids who were about to graduate from Poly, our neighbors, came to my home to BEG ME not to let them go there. I had to do a lot of networking in order to find out WHY an “A” student was being put on a wait list for the gifted high school program. Turns out they had MIS-LABELED her application as “NEW”. I will be forever thankful for the intervention of those young people. They knew what my child would be up against…🙏🏽💙🇺🇸💙
Parents’ lack of response to cutting police protection is fundamentally telling these kids that murderous behaviors are OK, because adults look the other way. That also gives parents who don’t teach their children responsible behaviors an easy avoidance of their parental duties. It is precisely when children are at their worse behaviors that parents should be held accountable.
No, the school officials are to blame, don't get it twisted.
@Doc. Yeah you are twisting multiple ideas...correlation possibly.
If they took just a few million from every program we send overseas or a little bit of the money we waste in this country like 55,000 more IRS agents, we could hire some more school resource officers or armed security officers with tasers pepper spray to at least stop the threat of violence in school. We got plenty of former military police and infantry personal to cover each school.
@@SiikPros No, the CRIMINAL students are to blame. And those students are violent for many reasons, MOST of which are with the main responsible party: The Parents.
@@gardennovice7896 Those positions in the IRS are not new, but replacements for retirements and people leaving, and the funds are to make up for them being underfunded for a LONG time. Keep your ignorance to yourself. Sheesh.
Why is everyone surprised? This is the "new" education. Kids go to school to become criminals.
This has been happening in predominantly Hispanic and Black schools since the 1990s.
@@madero-jb5risince the 60s 70s
They covered it up, plain and simple.
Poly High School in Sun Valley has always been dangerous. Usually everyone knows each other; it was very friendly when I went there for summer school.
More like very stupid *
Always the getto*h Edgar's
My homie got shot in the alleys walking out of school
It has always been dangerous, but it's also very friendly? Huh??
@@Adelicows
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First day of kindergarten, my kid was taken from me into the building and I was not allowed inside. I was not allowed to see the conditions. They had to walk around the halls with their arms twisted and hands clasped and fill their cheeks with air. The school didn't notify us of the bullying, someone was stealing my kids lunch and snacks from her bag in the hallway, the lice outbreak, the pinworm outbreak... We started homeschooling after they fired the teacher and moved an angry and bitter 6th grade teacher to the kindergarten room.
Yep, this is the reality in many schools across America. School is just getting worse and worse.
Wow, you really aren't a very good parent. I knew exactly what the school and classroom were like BEFORE the first day. I had spoken to her teacher, and then arranged to volunteer in the classroom. And now your kid will never get into a really good college because you were lazy.
@@mysadlife1771 That's your fault.
Wow! That's terrible
I was sort of with you until you got a bit over the top.
If my kid was stabbed and it was unreported I’d sue.
He wants to say why crime is up but he doesn't want to sound racist.
I love how the public employees think they don’t have to answer to the public!! 🙏🙏👍💪
School employees would lose their jobs if they spoke to media, they're not allowed. It's why the principal of poly kept referring the reporter to Operations. The reality is that the situation is not black and white- it's super grey, and trying to scapegoat one group whether it's school administrators, politicians, parents, students or teachers won't solve the issues :(
When someone answers a question with a question something shady is going on
Why is the news media blaming the school, and the mother blames the school....is this for ratings.......blame the kids and the patents for raising them that way
If the kids are in school for the majority of the waking hours, shouldn't the school be responsible the kids behavior? Maybe we need to take a hard look how our kids are being treated when they aren't at home.
They're not blaming the school for the stabbing; they're blaming the school for not reporting it.
@@Adelicows well, it was easy to see your age......my piont was, the news coverage was more about vitimising everyone and not putting the kids at fault for there actions
Exactly the kid who got “ stabbed “ was into the fight I’m sure he didn’t just get in the fight for no apparent reason . He looked involved until he got “ stabbed “. The mother should be embarrassed talking about this on camera. It all starts at home. And people telling her to sue the school yeah sue and take away the few money the school has for resources away from a school who is already in a barley middle class area.
Schools have become one of the most dangerous places to be.
They little gangbangers trying to play victim.
As a parent of soon to be teens,this is horrific.
Back in 2000, my son didn't last 6 months in Cal Poly High School in Riverside, CA. At the time I worked with Law Enforcement in a building in Corona, and the secretary also had a son in the school since his freshman year. She always seemed to be "tipped off" about gang incidents, which is exactly what they were - the Mexicans against the Blacks either during school hours (gym class) or after school, with the white kids getting caught in the crossfire.
The THIRD time I had to run out of that building behind Bonnie to pull my son out of school before the shooting or stabbing started, was the LAST time. Back to NJ we went, where sadly, there were still problems with BLACK students in the school, but luckily there were few enough of them so that they could be CONTAINED AND CONTROLLED.
And you have no blame in this?
Maybe u were once a teen mom if your monster went to high school in 2000? Teen moms are the worst. Even your favorite white teen moms aren’t as perfect as you think.
You are a RACIST
Article from Feb 2021 “LA School Board Unanimously Votes to Remove Officers From Campuses, Approves Black Student Investment”
Hey KCAL , are you too lazy to do some research?
You get what you vote for. The blood is on the parents and schools hands.
I totally agree 100%
nahh man it’s that border been open since 1963
No California has been lost a long time ago I was born and raised here it's who you vote for yeah the border has a lot to do with it but that's not the only thing it's the people that vote the same idiots time after time after time you should be able to see that.
That why my kid knows how to fight. Been training since 4 years old now she 6 and she can not let anyone bully her and I told her to do the right thing and stand up for who can't defend them self.
Time for immediate school reform and Kelly gonez resignation
I went to HS in both of those school. The fact that they conceal things that happen there doesn't surprise me. I'm not going to say I stabbed people like those mentioned in the video, but I wouldn't doubt that even what I did in HS back in the day got covered up as well. Those days are now long over, but I still don't doubt for a bit that they keep covering up. Wouldn't doubt they would have started covering things up ever since the early 90's which was before I went to either of those HS's.
Safety starts from the home! If your Son's/Daughters dress and act like gangstas, then where are the parents? I'm sure, The teachers and stuff are not trained to be law enforcements. They're there to teach whoever wants to learn and if the others are just there wasting time, smoking, drinking and getting high, those are the ones you should be asking where are their parents! What going on in the home!!
Too busy working to be able to raise children. Unfortunately
Stop sending your children to public schools.
No. Most public schools are fine. It's just certain ones
Polytechnic High School is unlawfully developed.
Defunding the police didn’t help sh*t
This is the valley for u tell yo kids don’t join no gangs or claim any
It's amazing what the news media will do to make money.....merica is in full decline
Blame the fact that teachers are not allowed to discipline students, not allowed to make kids feel "uncomfortable", and school districts who only implement half of "restorative justice". Restorative justice is supposed to put into place steps to keep kids of color from being suspended for unjust reasons. However, there is another part. Discipline for students who break rules. That doesn't happen. And disruptive students know it. TEACHERS HAVE NO POWER TO DISCIPLINE STUDENTS AND THEY KNOW IT!
I agree. As a district employee of 23 years this is so true. I would call the office when students were combative and the administrators would say and I quote " pick your battles" like I want this kid to stop throwing chairs come get him. Nope. Kids know that teachers and staff have NO support and know they will face no consequences and their parents are rarely called.
It's true but I also think- 1) the district gets sued all the time, and they are going to adjust policies to protect themselves. Unfortunately, in my opinion, that has created an environment of less accountability overall for students. 2) Schools are not the sole proprietors of student behavior- they don't exist in a bubble. Right now, in the Northeast SFV there is a huge gang issue, you can't talk about the increase in violence on school campuses and not also include that that increase in violence is a byproduct of the increase in crime and gang activity in the surrounding communities. Come on channel 5, you can do better than scapegoat reporting right?
Parents first mistake is to think that any school system will protect and is there for their children. Not at all , each child is looked at as money. They don't care about your children ! Parents need to realize that schools are run just like prisons , except in school system the students get to go home afterwards.
I don’t get it! If crime is high at school, what’s so bad about reporting it or making it known!!? parents and people in the Los Angeles county need to know how bad these MF kids are!
Of course, the adults spent that time finding ways to cover their own asses and not catch the bad PR.
They care about this news story more than those kids lives.
Teachers shouldn't be held up on a pedestal, they're just as capable as being trash as everyone else.
The administrators, not the teachers. The teachers are victims of what goes on because they have no power to hold kids accountable.
GL getting teachers, they would be next. I wouldn't work there.
Yeah, thats on brand. Its about funding. Not for the students or the teachers, but administration. So, to the kids and the parents, don’t turn in your phones, report things yourself. If somebody puts hands on you, YOU press charges. Go over their heads.
Getting training for real prision school in future...
School officials indifference towards a minor student being stabbed in his premises, pieces me off, which suggest that the school is hiding something bad.,
I honestly don't think it's indifference. Anyone working at a school site, would be fired for speaking to media. They aren't allowed to comment. And in regards to the mother's comment about the school not giving her the name of the student that stabbed her son- 1) they might not have identified the student at that time- it was a huge brawl, not a one on one fight, and 2) school's aren't allowed to share ANY information about students with anyone besides district personnel and the educational rights holder. I'm really disappointed in KCAL, like honestly this reporting was just... not good. I'm not saying that what happened isn't concerning, it truly is, but media should do a better job of building an understanding of the incident and providing context instead of just building outrage.
Why didnt she take him to the hospital to get checked out? The hospital would have to report it to the police.
Look usually by 10th grade the problematic children dropout that's usually any school though.
Mexifornia
That's no longer true. It was up until about 2006 or 7 but no longer. Now teachers are pressured to pass every kid and the problem kids persist.
My ex got hit by a kid in the eye (she had a really bad scratch on it) and the principal turned the other cheek. I told her f that go to a clinic and report them.
The clinic to report a hit from a child??
Was she a teacher?
7:31 The kids chanting for defunding the police make it look like they wanted it to continue their shenanigans 🤷♂
Homeschool your kids folks. The animals have taken over and its only going to get worse.
School to prison pipeline.
They are just doing what the police do but for free and less incident.
Nobodies draining the tax payer in the meantime. Those resources should be placed into opportunities for the student.
Not some bum ass security guard who wouldnt do much anyways.
I mean, it only makes sense they’re watching the whole world fight over territory,, how does it not apply all the way down?
If I were a teacher there I’m not sure if I’d step in to stop any of those fights which were dangerous or maybe a student remembers who called the cops and remembers me next riot.
Parents are just as responsible. Why would any teacher or staff be willing to sacrifice themselves when the students treat them like trash?
Those kids are probably going to join their parents in jail.
Nice scare tactic story. Also that scary music makes it worse. But honestly we all know who are the problem kids.... the unparented kids.
Honestly think it’s great reporting, it’s spreading awareness. We really need to increase security/police presence at schools
The trouble makers obviously have home issues but how’s that going to change the safety for students?
shits been going on since the 80s, news reports like this are tailor made for transplants who dont know anything about LA
Whaaat actual good reporting? Now keep that energy with everything and EVERYONE.
You'd need half a dozen or more police officers with some skilled in martial arts to handle a brawl this size. Ways of disarming the students without harming them are necessary. Security guards checking their backpacks and their person if metal detectors are not used. Where did the kid with a knife get it from? Major discussions required to address student safety.
Where did the kid get the knife? Probably his kitchen. Every kid has access to knives.
it was a screwdriver not a knife
Are they talking about the stabbing at Van Nuys high ??
I have to refer u to operations because I’m incompetent to do my job . This guy should be fired . Parents wake up and do something about this madness
Nothing another $100 million bond issue won’t fix.
This is obviously gang related determined by the clothing alone. Why exactly is there a cover up of over this? are they trying to protect their funding? Or do they fear retaliation or have pay offs by local gangs or cartels? Van Nuys has a massive Gang problem. I know because i grew up in the Valley. That school has cages around it... has for twenty years or more. It's like a little prison.
Y’all know very well why the crime is up!!!
Those same idiots are probably the ones calling to defund the police. Hehe, you get what you voted for. It looks like South American country in LA, even mom speak Spanish to the interviewer.
this been happening since the 80s are you from LA?
One thing be a PARENT or Grandparent First. Sue School - No Call to the Police soon as possible but should land line with world of jammers.
Child has to get through their own Neighborhood too. Parents need Parent immediately - no looking other Way. Start Right Today.
Kids Fight- Separate Talk - Identify Injury Call the EMS 911 Immediately.
Take Race Out- Darker Kid has Birth Certificate - Do Rest Children???
Recall to be Parent Grandparent or Community Member Right Away.
I am displeased with your Attitude.
Does other kids have school file and birth certificate?
Hard feelings Mexicans born in USA- Call Immigration so other kids damage you- real History.
Family owns History - Parent
Truth told
Police and security guards at schools is pretty depressing. Our school in belfast had over a thousand students, never a need for mad security, worst than happened was afew fights but todays world is beyond saving. Its way too mad though in america , you can go do the weekly shopping for the family, get the food , some toiletries , apples, oranges oh and buy a rifle. NUTS
That's because the social fabric of the US is now almost non existent.
Im pretty sure he was a tag banger or gabg member lets be honest and not act stupid
Its happening everywhere, even in grade schools. Teachers are not reporting fights, bullying, even accidents for fear of retaliation. My daughter had to call them out after three different incidents within a month's time. Asking why the school didnt notify her about a black eye her 4 yr recieved by another student, her son receiving a head injury from another student a week later no notice. My daughter called them out, then a notice and a call came in a week later that her son was hurt on the play ground and needed to go tothe E.R. After seeing this im wondering where are the teachers, aide manators and security ???? Are they all out hiding in the teacher's lounge???
How about you raise your kids better…the kid that got stabbed didn’t get stabbed for no reason. ..this was wrong, but kids in the library don’t typically get stabbed 🤔
CLOSE THE BORDER NOW!!!
The only guy that spoke seems like a stand up guy. Respect. That woman should be fired and never allowed to have any kind of responsibility involving children ever again
Kelly Gonez? the board member? To be honest- it's really hard for someone in that position to be able to respond immediately to individual campus incidents, whatever the media makes it sound like. They are just too far away from the day to day. I'm not making any aspertions on her job performance, i'm just saying, any board member would be hard pressed to deliver a real and authentic response to something like this, in my opinion.
Where is Polytechnic Senior high school, and why does it look like a prison yard?
I'm all for more police in campuses but let's be honest here - they'll show up when the fight's over anyways. The concealment and the lack of accountability by just about everyone in the interviews are the bigger problem here.
The Riverside unified needs to do better! Back in the 90’s it was a good school until people from Los Angeles started moving here with their gangsta trash hood mentality!
They violated mandated reporting if they don't notified police
When your kids go to school and jump on other kids anything can happen. That is why you should not do it.
Where’s newsom? I thought he cares about our kids
This ridiculous it makes me so mad watching this kind act . Why the hell these parents don’t discipline their children. Mom of this kid should sue LAUSD and school, where do these kids learn fight like that . What kind anger they have
More like a prison for the young now a days! Getting stabbed just another day in LA
This school looks like a prison and the students look like inmates. Thank God my family moved out of that city decades ago.
The parents have 0 involvement in their childs lives thinking they provide food, clothes, and a roof is enough. They raise good for nothing idiots who wont amount to anything but still blame "the system"
I always took a knife with me to highschool this ain’t new stuff we don’t live in the 80’s where people fight with their fists anymore
Poly Tec high school is filled with students who are in gangs. It’s always been that way sadly. I’m pretty sure it’s not the first time that’s happened.
this was gang related, there is a black or brown gang in almost every neighborhood in california ... they need more security in the schools
Keep it classy California
Student y’all are not safe. To many guns and knives. Too many People not doing the time for the crime they committed. Mental illness is ignored. People that has done a terrible crime. Is right back on the Streets.😢
California is falling hard af smhd
its alway been like this
Defund LAUSD!
I'm sure parents of magnet school and special ed students would not agree
When your career hinges on whether you have run afoul of the ever changing definition of "problematic ideas", can you really blame them for their hesitation? Is police presence on campus creating a hostile environment for minorities or is a lack of police presence endangering minorities? How much consideration should be given before action is taken? Was it enough consideration? Was there an acceptable amount of diverse viewpoints solicited before a decision was made? If a single mistake is made there can be serious litigation in store for school officials.
looking at this I understand why American education is one of the lowest in developed countries.
CORRUPTION SYSTEM
Thanks 2A!
School staff don't care the students can be half dead and the school would just call there nurse for bandages as long as the school keeps collecting funds per student
Sometimes even with police in the school you can’t stop this. There’s a school in NY, Albany High and it’s the same thing. Riots, stabbings kids bringing guns. It’s partially the lack attitude towards teachers, the lack of respect towards them and partially the districts faults.
Albany NY? It's not the WHITE kids responsible for the riots, stabbings and kids bringing guns to school!! I know that area well.
Banning cell phones would help
I went there in 06 that school been alway a bad school teacher didn’t do anything to help they where scared too different gangs always
THIS is a consequence from the polies the majority supposedly wanted and voted for. Crime is up everywhere. The kids see there are little to no consequences for anything anymore. They will test the boundaries and do what they want until there are harsh punishments for these things. Defunding the police is obviously not the right answer. The kids and parents need to be held accountable. The school is stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they have cops at the school the parents protest and when they are not, and their little angels act up they threaten to sue. The parents and the teenagers are at fault.
Don’t these schools have metal detectors?
Hombritos don’t report crimes.
They're all liars.
I think these schools need to get rid of these woke staff
The fact that the superintendent, the principal, and the elected officials don’t answer questions or do anything about these crimes, tells you about their lack of respect for the their constituents, the public, their incompetence is full display here, along with their complicity of covering it up or not doing anything about it, since their own data shows crimes in their schools have doubled.
These entitled school officials and politicians have forgotten that they work for us, they forget that they owe us a response, it is our tax money, our added support, that funds and pays for all, an answer, an action plan, some accountability at minimum would be appreciated! Who am I kidding, these people don’t care, look at the video here, not one single school official out and about to put order.
Parents, where are you? Take a look, these are your offspring, what values, principles are instilling in your kids? Resolve differences by stabbing? That is what they’re learning at home? Streets? Come on! Take a look, that killer, violent behavior, the stabbing, the ganging up to beat up a person without any apprehension or concern for the aftermath also speaks about the education these teens are getting at home, a bad one, as well as the school.
Time to ban knives or screwdrivers 😅
This is in line with the zombie nature of Los Angeles. Get out while you can.
6 00 should have told him it was poly to see if he new. About it
If my son went to this school I’d be bs 😳
I know why the school didn't call it in, or even reported in on it.
The reason is one thing and one thing only
money
Schools officials get paid the more kids go to school, if news originally had gotten out over the stabbing as well as the fighting and other violence in the schools, of course parents will pull their kids out of such violent situation. This off course effects THEIR paychecks which they don't want to lose.
Again, when anything happens involivng school and school safty, it will always be about money.
seriously- ADA- is how schools are funded via the state. School site staff have NOTHING to do with that. Moreover, school site staff don't get paid any more or any less based on the number of students that attend or how often. The school budget and allocation of funding for teacher positions is based on how many students attend (if you population drops, you'll have to reduce the number of teachers) but there is no pocketing of personal money. The line the media is telling you that's what happen, but I'm aware of school policy and they aren't allowed to share any information about kids. So whether they called or not, they wouldn't be able to tell you.