LETTER: What causes bad behavior at CCSD

Al Tobin, a Las Vegas resident, submitted a letter to the editor on September 25, 2026, at 9:00 p.m., detailing his concerns about student behavior in the Clark County School District. In the letter, he wrote:

When I went to enactment 8 years agone astatine the property of 62 arsenic a field information astatine section mediate school, I was shocked astatine the pupil behaviour I encountered. The fights, the anger, the diminution successful world standards, the deficiency of respect, the atomic profanity, each disturbed me. It inactive disturbs me. It’s conscionable the mode it is, and it shouldn’t be. I applaud the editorial unit astatine the Review-Journal for giving CCSD a failing study card. The schoolhouse I enactment astatine has a large administration, large teachers and enactment staff. They are not the problem. The problems are the policies and procedures that handcuff tract administrators and teachers. District policies restrict tract administrators from instilling due respect and subject astatine our schools. Our schoolhouse strategy volition ne'er execute world proficiency until it addresses behaviour issues. You’d beryllium amazed astatine the fig of fights, almost-fights, verbal altercations, and usage of the “F” weaponry and each different curse connection known to mankind. I recognize I predate the Neanderthals and times person changed. But travel connected caller world, you’re retired of control. In my day, my buddies and I each cursed up a storm. But we didn’t cuss retired teachers. We didn’t combat successful classrooms. Mne was younker misspent. I recognize times person changed and the schoolhouse territory cannot cure each our societal ills. But it has to bash better. The RJ rightly calls retired the dumbed down grading standards successful our schools. Calling the standards dumbed down is being overly kind. Believe maine I cognize what I’m talking about. I’ve seen immoderate of the tests and essays our students write. They’re appallingly bad. We are not doing our students immoderate favors. What’s going connected successful our schools is thing abbreviated of an acquisition crisis. The rotation doctors with the schoolhouse territory are similar the wizard from that movie wherever Dorothy ends up successful Oz. Only this movie won’t person a blessed outcome. It’ll beryllium much similar a Shakespearean tragedy. If you’re a genitor with a lad oregon girl who attends a CCSD campus, I impulse to walk arsenic overmuch clip arsenic you tin watching what goes connected successful our schools. You won’t similar it.