Some of the older students at Pinecrest roamed the halls during class time, bullied other students, intimidated staff, and ignored requests to follow basic rules like not using their cell phones, said Sternberg in an interview with this newspaper.
Meanwhile, teachers were thwarted in their attempts to deal with the situation by an administration that promoted the laudable goal of giving students a voice, Sternberg said, only it went too far and allowed disruptive, disrespectful and dangerous behaviour.
“The student voice was all that mattered, and basically they silenced the teachers’ voice,” said Sternberg. “We were always questioned, we were always undermined, we were always told (the bad behaviour) must be our bias, or our classroom management, or it must be because we’re not listening to the students.”
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