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Teacher beaten to death by 8th grader

Published Monday, October 31, 2005 by Editor | E-mail this post

We have complained at length about the status of public education in America. We spend far more money on education in America than in most every other country on Earth, yet by every measure American students continuously fail to make the grade, when compared to the rest of the industrialized world. Even in countries with high levels of poverty, students perform far better that their American counterparts. As we have noted, culture plays a major role in the failure of American public education. In America we do not value education, we value the frivolous, we value the Hollywood-rock star culture. We don’t value science or literature and knowledge and as a result our educational system is in the toilet.

Now there is word that another of these brain dead students has gone from pupil to murderer. Judy Jester, a 55 year-old teacher in Alabama, was beaten to death by a 15 year-old 8th grade student. That’s right, beaten to death. The child attacked the teacher, cracking her skull, causing irreparable brain damage, leaving her for dead. Jester was found on the floor of a classroom by a group of teens, who called police. The unnamed15 year-old, has been charged with murder, as well as burglary and robbery. This child clearly represents a growing number of deadbeats who fully embrace the entitlement culture, placing no value in hard work or education, seeking only the path of least resistance, even at the expense of others. Some would argue that making a comparison with this murderer and other deadbeat students is a bit of a stretch…but is it? To what lengths will some people go to get what they want or take what others have? Even if this savage killer had not attacked Judy Jester, his un-appreciation for education is epitomized by the fact that he was a 15 year old in the 8th grade, shouldn’t he be in the 10th grade? Woe and shame for the future of our poor country.
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1 Responses to “Teacher beaten to death by 8th grader”

Sherrie Martin on November 05, 2005

The senseless loss of this wonderful lady has left a void in many lives that will never be filled. Her sons, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, parents, and numerous other family members will have an empty place in their hearts forever.
Americans are blaming the public school systems with everything that goes wrong. The public school system is not the enemy. These problems are incessantly talked about by politicians and those playing the blame game.
I challenge anyone to spend a week in a classroom with these teachers and then to take a really hard look at where the problem lies. Children today have no respect, manners, nor responsibility. These things are not taught at home. Mommy and daddy are of a generation that do not believe in a good old fashioned butt whipping. The children of today are being taught at home to be lazy, irreverent, and irresponsible. They have no respect for adults or anyone in authority. They lack decency, table manners, bathroom manners, and some of them have absoutely no moral values. Drugs and alcohol, cigarettes, and meth labs are abundant in homes today. Children are being asked to grow up way before their time.
So much of a teachers time now is devoted to paperwork that in no way relates to what he or she has to try to teach a classroom of children. Teachers and schools are not the problem nor or they the problem solvers. The solutions to many of the problems have to begin with the parents at home. Discipline is the number one problem that faces teachers today and until parents are made to be responsible for making sure that children know how to behave, things will never improve.
Back to the brutal attack on Ms. Jester, it is something that will change the county and school where she taught for years to come. It is a scar on the hearts of many, I know she was a very dear friend of mine and I will miss her greatly.