Comments on: Teachers Directed To Tolerate Disruption

By: Lynne

Lynne — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:59:03 +0000

Well said! We’ve become a society where everything is blamed on something else, no one stands up and takes responsibility any more. “Yea I did it, but my mom who spanked me 25 yrs ago is really to blame”
BAH! The gap between what is acceptable and what’s not no longer exists.

By: DosPeros

DosPeros — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:42:13 +0000

It’s the administration, not the teachers. I bet the teachers would love to boot some of the “kids” out their ear. I taught in an inner city Kansas City, Missouri public school (middle school) for 2 semesters. The good thing that came out of it: I met my wife. I can’t even tell you the number of time’s I was told “F**K you.” I’m not a small guy and, of course, my first inclination was to commence a first class country-style ass wupp’in on the little punks. I didn’t. I went to the administration. This was a “Charter” school ran by a private management company (Beacon) out of Boston. They got $5000.00 a year per student. Any long-term suspension or expulsion cost them $$$. The kids RAN the school. It was insane. The police were called dayly. Crack & guns were routinely found in lockers. Horrible. Not to mention, the school adopted some airy progressive curriculm centered on “project based learning.” The “project” for most of these middle schoolers was to learn to read at 2/3rd grade level. It was insane. The teachers took to drinking heavily after hours. Public education is doomed, it isn’t the Titanic about to sink, it is the Titanic ten years after it sank. This is just another example.

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:20:24 +0000

I remember scribbling that phrase on the bathroom wall in a note left for a girl I truly, truly despised. I wound up not only having to scrub the bathroom but had to spend my Saturday helping the custodian repaint it (it never dawned on me back then that he had to work on his day off, too) AND had to write 500 times how sorry I was AND had to stay in detention for 2 weeks AND lost the chance to go on a field trip with my class AND had to have my mother sign a note stating that she knew what I’d done.

I never, EVER used that language at school again. Not even in college. Not even when I was teaching college. Nor did I use it at work.

We all speak many different types of languages. Some of them are suitable for friends, some are suitable for authority figures, and some we only speak with ourselves.

It’s time we teach the youth of America the difference between each one.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:14:01 +0000

Not to make like of my current situation, but someone would have to give me oxygen if a child said “f*** you” to me during a lesson.

It’s about time those in change got a clue and stopped making excuses for bad behaviour.