The Ethical Society congratulates our teachers and the jobs they do with intergraded classrooms of students. This Society is not in favor of intergrading children with criminal histories with normal student population (students that do not have criminal histories).
The Ethical Society recognizes that not all children that make mistakes are "criminals". We also recognize that children that demonstrate a complete disregard for the teacher's authority impose their will on the teacher and other students.
This Society recognizes that real classroom teachers and professional psychotherapist have long known that many delinquent children would qualify for the diagnosis of "Sociopath" if they were 18 years of age. Yalom (founder of group psychotherapy) states that if you put one adult sociopath in a group of 12 functioning adults, the sociopath will erode the group. Our education system ignores this principal when it created the marketing plan, "no student left behind". This policy has resulted in uncounted deaths, directly and indirectly (children that joined gangs for protection because the school is in control of the student bullies). Our real classroom teachers have noted this for years.
The segregation that has occurred in public and private schools recognizes the dominance of this knowledge. The only people that debate this is the public school system. The second level of segregation occurs in public schools when the school creates the categories of "honors", "advance", "magnet" and other categories that separate the regular classroom students and "delinquents" from the normal population.
The Ethical Society recognizes that the administrations of the public school system may not represent the teachers of that system nor the students but the administration itself. For years principals have performed administrative assistant duties (clerical) and received salaries out of line with their duties. Counselors with master's degrees many times may spend less than 10% of their time actually doing therapy with students and provide advice that could be disseminated in the classroom or assembly.
The Ethical Society supports the policy that no administrative position be paid more than 20% of the classroom teacher's salary. Individuals with MBA's can be obtained to perform management duties. UPS does not hire engineers do perform function that a train technician can accomplish. Hospitals do not pay physicians to administer flu vaccines. Coaches do not have to be the best players but they have to have the ability to identify the talents needed to achieve the desired outcome.
The Ethical Society believes that true education reform can not occur when the money never reaches the classroom. The Ethical Society recognizes that school administrators are using their resources to "write" the next "grant" or justify the "next expenditure" instead of diagnosing the children with Attention Deficient Disorder or other learning disabilities. Schools have become "big business", promote themselves and no longer serve the communities.
The Ethical Society has been informed that many schools do not allow their teachers to refer students for psychotherapy because the school system would have to pay for any expense that removes the child's barrier to achieving education. The Ethical Society thinks that this practice and any other practice is not only unethical but may be illegal.
It is our opinion that this policy is nothing less that a collusion and conspiracy on behalf of the administrators and the local board of education. We will do everything within our scope to stop this practice and prosecute school officials under the child abuse and neglect laws, as well as the child exploitation laws (because the school receives money for each student).
The Ethical Society understands that many times students are referred for testing and are on waiting lists for months and sometimes years before they can be tested due to the large numbers on the waiting list.
The Ethical Society again believes that testing should be made to be available within two weeks of referral and the cost absorbed through the administrative salary reduction. There is absolutely no reason that students suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder go undiagnosed until high school. This disorder can just about be recognized from the report cards as well as acting out behavior in the classroom. Most therapists (if not classroom teachers) could spend one day in each classroom in the school system and identify those students. Students can go on line and complete screening profiles.