SCANDALS CONTINUE TO PLAGUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

   The American Public School System is one of our most fetid swamps in need of draining. Across the board, it consistently fails American parents, youth, and children and often puts the latter two in proximity to dangerous mental cases---including students, employees, and officials of these schools who have no business being there. 

   As further evidence of the national disgrace that has come to characterize American public education, another scandal has hit Pennsylvania. It seems that a bus driver---one Lori Mankos, age 44---lost her marbles with a busload of teenagers from Northampton High. According to witnesses, Mankos was driving along a highway when she suddenly sped up and swerved into the opposite lane. She then began screaming profanity at the students, threatening to "kill them all". Finally, Mankos sped into a gas station, slammed on the brakes, and threw the keys at an attendant before running, with waving arms, and screaming down the highway on foot---nearly causing several other accidents. Police later apprehended Mankos, who'd gone to a 'safe space' at her parent's home. 

    Mankos' parents---with whom she's still living though in her 40's---claim that their daughter is the real victim in this case. That explains a lot about Mankos' psychological makeup in itself. Northampton Superintendent Joseph Kovalchik was the next in line to disclaim any responsibility for the incident, which is also quite telling. 

    “We’ve been contracting with this bus company for over 20 years. I don’t know anything about this driver since she’s employed by the contractor and not directly by our district. We’re extremely upset by this, but very thankful that none of the students were hurt.”

    Maybe outsourcing services that the school should be providing is the root of the problem in the first place, Mr. Kovalchik. School Transportation Departments used to be accountable to school boards, PTA's, and parents in general. Shoving the job into the hands of an unaccountable corporate monopoly disempowers parents---but does empower academic and corporate elites. 

     In another incident this week, a kindergarten teacher at Lagos Elementary School in Manor, Texas was jailed after attacking her live-in boyfriend with a 12" inch knife. Like Lori Mankos, 41-year old Yamile Uribe is believed to have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time.

     The police found Uribe sound asleep in the bedroom after they arrived on the scene. Neighbors reported hearing screaming and scuffling from the home around 11 PM. The boyfriend confessed to the police that Uribe began screaming when he refused her sexual advances, 'lost it', and charged him with a knife. He wrestled the weapon away from her, after which she ran raging through the house before locking herself in the bedroom. 

    Police broke down the bedroom door and found the knife; and also Uribe lying in a drunken stupor. And, like their counterparts in Pennsylvania, the Manor Independent School District also swept everything under the rug.

   “Ms. Uribe will not be in class until we’ve followed district protocol and have conducted our own individual investigation,” District spokesman Scott Thomas said.

    Maybe they should have investigated a little more thoroughly before hiring her in the first place, eh, Mr. Thomas? Character matters: even more than PC views and meeting Affirmative-Action quotas. 

   The good thing at least is that more and more of these characters are ending up where they've belonged all along: the local jail. Now if only we could find a few striped suits for the Elites who hired them.