Posted on 05/29/2016 2:29:17 PM PDT by EinNYC
A veteran English teacher at Flushing HS says she was so terrified when a student charged at her and threatened to beat her with a heavy cast on his arm that she blurted out in self-defense, “If you hit me, I’ll kill you.”
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Christina sometimes tours with Milo to college campuses. It’s amazing the abuse she endures. But she goes on!
Ahhhh the poor little liberals.
“Go to college they said”
“Become a teacher they said”
“Make a difference they said”
“Teach the black kids they said”
As a retired North Carolina HS science teacher I hear you. Over my 30+ years it only got worse in the last few years after Obama took office and Holder, I believe told school systems to revamp their discipline policies. This meant to keep the trouble makers in school and in class at all cost. The students felt empowered, need I say more.
Political correctness allows protected minorities to hurt normal people and to get away with it, but condemns anything a white says or does.
Why teach in a gubbmint school?
My guess is that it pays more. The public school has great difficulty ejecting persistently misbehaving students, unlike the private school.
The schoolmarm and schoolmaster of old put up with considerably less crap, but also earned considerably less, too. It’s a matter of choosing between the cake and eating it.
I’d still think there would be SOME relatively well off private schools in the area, just given the big money that exists there. Someone has to teach the Trump kids, proverbially speaking.
The situation’s gotten worse over the years... but if it’s gotten worse it can also get better. There’s hope - the mess isn’t cast in stone.
Some incentives have to be identified and switched... (true of all failing systems) - because everyone in the school system is worth saving... kids - teachers - all of ‘em...
And if Ms. E. really had to pursue that (public school) vocation — New York City isn’t the place to do it. Do that in Podunk, Iowa where 90% of the students are fundamentalist Christians and/or conservative Roman Catholics — and act like they actually fear God already.
Let’s cut this lady some slack, ok?
She’s a long time freeper and a conservative. She has tried to teach people within the New York City school system because - just maybe - she doesn’t believe the Democrat mantra that blacks should all be stupid, ignorant and only good to vote Democrat the minute some white liberal points to the right place on the paper ballot. Maybe she thinks these people have some intrinsic value known only to God and those who work in one of the most difficult professions in the world.
As far as being cowardly as some have suggested?! What a laugh and a half! She’s the most ballsy person on this site tonight. How many times have I had to deal with gun-toting freepers from Texas who tell me they are afraid to walk on Park Avenue at noontime.
The teachers UNIONS who support the left wing knee jerk deserve a large portion of the blame
It’s overly-liberal “liberal” (turns out being illiberal) philosophies at fault. Philosophies which assume people are just somehow born inherently good.
People can quibble over the scientific details of how it played out, but the deepest and truest moral story about where we are today, is the Garden of Eden story. God gave humanity a chance; humanity muffed it. Some, coming out of that tragedy, will choose a heart that will reconcile with God in the end. Others will choose a heart that lives it all for themselves, even though that means being set on evil. But no mortal comes here innocent.
School that knows no idea of discipline of any kind, is going to be a failing proposition.
Some of the gun toters may just be beating their chests and woofing and they aren’t even really that fearful. They just want to look smart.
Perhaps, HighTech. But from my perspective, they look kind of silly.
She’s also of a devoutly religious group that claims to be pretty jolly serious about a pretty jolly serious God.
So what is she doing with the resources she has?
If her rabbis can’t answer the question, maybe her bible can.
Yes it is, and eventually all self-touting will end up looking silly. Only what God authors will truly be admirable.
Living in Hell and complaining about the heat?
At least the Nazis aren’t forcing restaurants to post salt icons if there is “too much” (whatever the nazis say, and of course it will be lowered in subsequent years) salt and then fining them if they didn’t post a salt icon.
Oh, wait a minute...
Funny how the Nazis ‘care about your health’ by regulating what you put in your body if it is sugar or salt or fat, but if your ‘lifestyle’ is sodomy and you want to put 10 diseased males in your colon every day, that is not only protected, it is to be celebrated.
Wonder if charges can be brought against a student that makes these kind of threats. Turn on phone recorder and if the school administrators refuse to bring charges threaten to go directly to the police. Don’t pull any punches aND be prepared to follow through.
I don’t know.
She’s posted and not responded. She has many friends here from the posts and not too many jackasses who don’t pretend to understand her life.
I guess as a fan of Up the Down Staircase - I was an acquaintance of its gracious and beautiful author - I have a soft spot for New York City school teachers. Bel Kaufman always told me life for teachers in the public school system had gotten much worse. What a wise, witty woman she was!
And both represent secular government throwing weight around that it should have never been able to throw.
There was One who did sojourn in hell and didn’t like the temperature — but He also did something about it.
Political activism that makes sense ought to get itself out of this echo chamber and onto the street, somehow, someway.
Has Ms. E. thought of giving Donald Trump a holler?
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