Violent Children Quotes

“Scenes from the Playroom

Now Lucy with her family of dolls
Disfigures Mother with an emery board,
While Charles, with match and rubbing alcohol,
Readies the struggling cat, for Chuck is bored.

The young ones pour more ink into the water
Through which the latest goldfish gamely swims,
Laughing, pointing at naked, neutered Father.
The toy chest is a Buchenwald of limbs.

Mother is so lovely; Father, so late.
The cook is off, yet dinner must go on
With onions as her only cause for tears
She hacks the red meat from the slippery bone,
Setting the table, where the children wait,
Her grinning babies, clean behind the ears.”
― R.S. Gwynn

“The need to separate disruptive or violent children from others who are trying to learn is independent of whether or not there is any "solution" currently available, or on the horizon, for changing the behavior of disruptive and/or violent children. The alternative is to sacrifice the education of unending generations of poor and minority children until such indefinite time as a "solution" for their misbehaving and/or violent classmates can be found, created or faked.
For people enthralled by the prevailing social vision, with its invincible fallacy, all forms of sorting in schools are taboo, whether sorting by behavior, ability or other factors that can affect educational outcomes. It is as if schools exist to present a tableau that expresses a vision, rather than to educate all those who want to learn. None of this precludes trying to improve the behavior of problem students. It simply does not postpone the education of whole generations of other students until that project succeeds.”
― Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities