{"id":12431,"date":"2024-10-17T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12431"},"modified":"2024-10-29T22:06:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T05:06:02","slug":"before-sending-your-kid-to-portland-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12431","title":{"rendered":"Before sending your kid to Portland Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students are being forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/education\/2023\/04\/we-need-help-middle-school-principals-in-portland-plead-for-more-staff-to-help-manage-student-behavioral-problems.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/education\/2023\/04\/we-need-help-middle-school-principals-in-portland-plead-for-more-staff-to-help-manage-student-behavioral-problems.html\">stay in classrooms with other students that have physical assaulted and threatened their lives<\/a>:<br><br><em>A seventh grader at Beaumont Middle School in Northeast Portland described feeling terrified after a classmate held a boxcutter to her neck and threatened to slit her throat during school hours several weeks ago. Her classmate was suspended for a few weeks, but is now back at school without supervision, she told members of the Portland school board on Tuesday, adding that she\u2019s experiencing regular panic attacks as a result. \u201cMy school is not safe, not safe while I know people in positions that can help are not helping me and probably not helping others,\u201d she said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PPS also had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/education\/2024\/09\/portland-public-schools-pays-grant-high-student-pummeled-on-video-250k-to-settle-lawsuit.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/education\/2024\/09\/portland-public-schools-pays-grant-high-student-pummeled-on-video-250k-to-settle-lawsuit.html\">pay $250,000 to a student seriously beaten after years of bullying &#8211; as staff just stood by and watched the beating<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are being forced to stay in classrooms with other students that have physical assaulted and threatened their lives: A seventh grader at Beaumont Middle School in Northeast Portland described feeling terrified after a classmate held a boxcutter to her neck and threatened to slit her throat during school hours several weeks ago. Her classmate was suspended for a few weeks, but is now back at school without supervision, she told members of the Portland school board on Tuesday, adding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12431\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3ev","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12570,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12431\/revisions\/12570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}