Student Voice: Baltimore City School Student Sees State Setting Youth Up For Failure

By Raven Moniqu’e Coleman (a Junior at Doris M. Johnson High School in Baltimore City)

I bet the state is content with many of Baltimore City’s students having a bleak future.

In 2000, Judge Joseph H. Kaplan ordered that the state issue adequate funding to the city after he deemed that students would need to receive between $200- $260 million in addition to other funds in order to comply with students’ constitutional rights.

As expected, these demands have yet to be met. I think the state doesn’t want to admit that they set our youth up for failure. Continue reading Student Voice: Baltimore City School Student Sees State Setting Youth Up For Failure

“Take Your Child To Work Day” gets a no go from Superintendent Haas

“Take Your child To Work Day”… seems like an easy concept. I can remember as a child I looked forward to the fact that my mom, a speech pathologist in the school system, would take my sisters and I to work on that special day.

The whole day was so cool right down to eating lunch in the classroom and using the faculty restroom. Wow, we were easily pleased. We saw all that the ‘big bad’ world had to offer and that our mother was something other then ‘mommy.’ She was someone that taught and was important to others as well. I can remember marveling at the teachers and then returning home to play school.

Now, that very same “Take Your child To Work Day” is considered an UNLAWFUL ABSENCE. I have a real problem with that.

Our eldest daughter has been asking about this day for years and now that she’s old enough to understand the concept and follow directions safely, she will not be able to attend work with her father on Thursday, April 24th. Continue reading “Take Your Child To Work Day” gets a no go from Superintendent Haas

C. Milton Wright High School Science Teacher and Wrestling Coach Arrested For Multiple Child Sex Offenses

David “Dewey” Louis Vasses, a 29-year-old Science Teacher/Wrestling coach with C. Milton Wright High School in Bel Air, was arrested Saturday on charges that stem from information that a teacher at the high school was having a sexual relationship with at least one student at the school.

On Saturday, March 8, 2008, Harford County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Vasses, of the 100 block of Kipling Court in Abingdon, on charges of sexual child abuse, 4th degree sex offense and unnatural and perverted practices.

Vasses was released on $50,000.00 bond. Continue reading C. Milton Wright High School Science Teacher and Wrestling Coach Arrested For Multiple Child Sex Offenses