Comments on: UPDATED: Student found with loaded handgun at Auburn Freshman Campus http://rockrivertimes.com/2009/12/11/student-found-with-loaded-handgun-at-auburn-freshman-campus/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:49:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Troach http://rockrivertimes.com/2009/12/11/student-found-with-loaded-handgun-at-auburn-freshman-campus/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Troach Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:03:53 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=21697#comment-447 The statement that 95% of kids are there to learn is misleading. What people aren't being told is that the bad apples, the 5% is a small number.. there will always be a small percentage of kids that cut up and don't want to learn.... but in Rockford's case many of these kids are not just cutting up, ect... they are bringing guns, fighting, robbing, etc.. that's what not being told. Sheffield needs to go! Liar. The statement that 95% of kids are there to learn is misleading. What people aren’t being told is that the bad apples, the 5% is a small number.. there will always be a small percentage of kids that cut up and don’t want to learn…. but in Rockford’s case many of these kids are not just cutting up, ect… they are bringing guns, fighting, robbing, etc.. that’s what not being told. Sheffield needs to go! Liar.

]]> By: Troach http://rockrivertimes.com/2009/12/11/student-found-with-loaded-handgun-at-auburn-freshman-campus/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Troach Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:13:12 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=21697#comment-446 I would like to personally announce a CITY WIDE BOYCOTT of Dr. Sheffield. I think people should keep their kids out of public schools until she resigns. She is a liar and has no business in Rockford. There also needs to be a petition to get her out circulated as soon as possible. This woman is clueless and needs to get out of town asap! There are many, including teachers---> that feel they aren't safe and are being completely lied to. Dr. Sheffield, you are are a poor excuse for a professional and need to get out of our city before our problems become worse! I would like to personally announce a CITY WIDE BOYCOTT of Dr. Sheffield. I think people should keep their kids out of public schools until she resigns. She is a liar and has no business in Rockford. There also needs to be a petition to get her out circulated as soon as possible. This woman is clueless and needs to get out of town asap! There are many, including teachers—> that feel they aren’t safe and are being completely lied to. Dr. Sheffield, you are are a poor excuse for a professional and need to get out of our city before our problems become worse!

]]> By: Sue http://rockrivertimes.com/2009/12/11/student-found-with-loaded-handgun-at-auburn-freshman-campus/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Sue Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:25:04 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=21697#comment-442 The only reason that student had on a bullet proof vest was because he knew someone else had a gun. This student and his brother were the only ones "patted down". Who else was concealing a loaded weapon in their baggy, saggy pants? This "isolated" incident is the tip of a much bigger iceberg. We don't know from one day to the next who has a knife or a gun in their pants or pocket or whatever. I would put good money down that if the district was to one day, unannounced, put any of the schools in question in lockdown and go from class to class using a wand on the students, they would get a cache of weapons. The kids would go crazy texting each other about what was going on. If they're not in lockdown, they'll just ditch the weapons somewhere before they get checked. We just know about the students who've been caught. Everyday in the high schools and some of the middle schools is an adventure in survival. As Mr. Jancek said, 5% of the students are not there to learn. That's about 1500 kids. Spread them around the high schools and the affected middle schools and that's a lot of learning that's being disrupted. Sheffield said something to students at West because she had trouble getting down the hall and they turned around and cussed her out - they didn't treat her any different than they treated the rest of the staff. We need police back in the buildings. That's the only person that some of these kids will obey and even some them won't obey the police officers. Jancek is right, there are a lot of incredibly nice students in our district who are at school to get an education. Sheffield has to got to turn things back around discipline-wise so that they can get the education they want. The only reason that student had on a bullet proof vest was because he knew someone else had a gun. This student and his brother were the only ones “patted down”. Who else was concealing a loaded weapon in their baggy, saggy pants? This “isolated” incident is the tip of a much bigger iceberg. We don’t know from one day to the next who has a knife or a gun in their pants or pocket or whatever. I would put good money down that if the district was to one day, unannounced, put any of the schools in question in lockdown and go from class to class using a wand on the students, they would get a cache of weapons. The kids would go crazy texting each other about what was going on. If they’re not in lockdown, they’ll just ditch the weapons somewhere before they get checked.

We just know about the students who’ve been caught. Everyday in the high schools and some of the middle schools is an adventure in survival. As Mr. Jancek said, 5% of the students are not there to learn. That’s about 1500 kids. Spread them around the high schools and the affected middle schools and that’s a lot of learning that’s being disrupted.

Sheffield said something to students at West because she had trouble getting down the hall and they turned around and cussed her out – they didn’t treat her any different than they treated the rest of the staff. We need police back in the buildings. That’s the only person that some of these kids will obey and even some them won’t obey the police officers. Jancek is right, there are a lot of incredibly nice students in our district who are at school to get an education. Sheffield has to got to turn things back around discipline-wise so that they can get the education they want.

]]> By: K http://rockrivertimes.com/2009/12/11/student-found-with-loaded-handgun-at-auburn-freshman-campus/comment-page-1/#comment-440 K Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:57:29 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=21697#comment-440 I really wish Mr. Hernandez would not speak for staff members in our buildings. I for one am "alarmed". What a crock. I really wish Mr. Hernandez would not speak for staff members in our buildings. I for one am “alarmed”. What a crock.

]]> By: Guest http://rockrivertimes.com/2009/12/11/student-found-with-loaded-handgun-at-auburn-freshman-campus/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Guest Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:34:36 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=21697#comment-438 How interesting that the television station sites and the RRTimes site have comment pages where running commentary about the school district is visible, but the RRStar site's comment pages for any of the school district problems for the last month are all of a sudden missing. The ability to leave comments about all stories other than school district stories still funtions, but the commets for the school district articles doesn't work this evening. How interesting that the television station sites and the RRTimes site have comment pages where running commentary about the school district is visible, but the RRStar site’s comment pages for any of the school district problems for the last month are all of a sudden missing. The ability to leave comments about all stories other than school district stories still funtions, but the commets for the school district articles doesn’t work this evening.

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