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My student threatened to beat me — and I’m the one in trouble
New York Post ^ | May 29, 2016 | Susan Edelman and Isabel Vincent

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: arth; crime; education; flushing; nyc; publicschools; thugculture
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To: Safetgiver

Well said.


41 posted on 05/29/2016 4:09:46 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: miss marmelstein

It seem to be a schtick in some Jewish circles to get all offended over things that, if untrue, could just be ignored rather than taken personally.

But never fear, some Christians do it too.

It’s easy to get caught up into spiritually playing the wrong game. Look for and follow what God has wrought and do whatever you can to shrug off the rest or at least bear through it by the grace of God, is the winning formula.

Complaining that hell is hot, is not a winning formula unless you are prepared to do something about it.


42 posted on 05/29/2016 4:12:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ransomnote

This is just Grumblegunner. Everything Grumblegunner says should be taken with 10 lb. of salt.


43 posted on 05/29/2016 4:13:53 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: max americana
why cant you just give these lil bastards a failing grade?

You cannot fail all your students. You are given strict guidelines as to what passing stats are acceptable to the chairman of the department. Lower than that, and YOU are the one called on the carpet. You may have spent hours and untold hours preparing lessons, spent your own money on stuff for the classroom , had nice hands-on activities, field trips, etc.---but you can't make someone who has NO interest in learning learn. You hear over and over again, "I got no interest in that", "What I need THAT for?", etc. Why the heck SHOULD they learn when they know due to pressures on the teacher, they don't have to and the teacher has to pass them to keep their job?

44 posted on 05/29/2016 4:14:03 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

At some point your answer might well be “I quit, I will not cooperate with this lack of integrity.”

Don’t take that off the table. God may bless you for being so frank.


45 posted on 05/29/2016 4:16:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mr. M.J.B.
2/13/2015

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/retired-teachers-pocketing-six-figure-pensions-article-1.2113836

The number of retirees earning six-figure pensions from the city and state teacher retirement systems nearly tripled during the past five years, according to a report from the Empire Center for Public Policy released Thursday

Topping New York’s [teachers] pension list is Queens College history Prof. Edgar McManus, 90, who retired in 2012 after a 55-year career in education and now receives a whopping $561,286-a-year pension. “I was there a long time — it adds up,” McManus, who lives in Manhattan, said Thursday.

46 posted on 05/29/2016 4:17:06 PM PDT by Mr. M.J.B.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Holderites!


47 posted on 05/29/2016 4:17:08 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Safetgiver

I agree with you. HG is an ass.


48 posted on 05/29/2016 4:17:55 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Mr. M.J.B.

this is insane, all public pensions should be capped


49 posted on 05/29/2016 4:19:04 PM PDT by Enchante (Shrillary Clinton: Hamas puts its rockets and ammo in schools and hospitals because Gaza is small)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Got to know when to Holdem
Got to know when to Foldem


50 posted on 05/29/2016 4:19:12 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Safetgiver

You don’t know him very well then


51 posted on 05/29/2016 4:19:14 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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To: ProudFossil

I missed that, have any more info?


52 posted on 05/29/2016 4:19:44 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Some of us actually get stuck in bad jobs and need help. Nothing wrong with a cry for help not that she's necessarily done that. I don't believe in all this ‘hell’ stuff. She's in a job, not hell. Hell is hell - a world beyond our mortal reckoning, ok? It's this kind of religious intransigence and literalism that gets my back up.
53 posted on 05/29/2016 4:21:15 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: humblegunner
You either really need the job or are a total pussy.

Easy to be an armchair quarterback, eh Humble? I guess you'd give up a job that paid the bills in this economy when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel for retirement, right? It was not this way when I started teaching, and I never signed up for garbage like this. There are hundreds of veteran teachers being subjected to treatment like this, with no protection for them or consequences for the thugs called students. They are just counting the days until they can retire and reap a bit of financial reward for decades of service to the children of NYC.

BTW, while you are tossing around pejorative remarks about me without even knowing me---I am very small. These thugs are very typically 6' or more. You want your wife or daughter going up against one of them, who doesn't hesitate to manhandle woman or hurt people? Many of the "students" have done jail time, but we're not allowed to know that. Protect the student and all that. A pussy? My friends would laugh at that one.

54 posted on 05/29/2016 4:21:56 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Enchante

Well, they can’t take it with them.


55 posted on 05/29/2016 4:22:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: EinNYC

That punk student needs to be in a full body cast and in jail.


56 posted on 05/29/2016 4:24:09 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: miss marmelstein

You have no problem with sensing a real presence of Christ... why with the real presence of the devil?

You need a stern and accurate philosophy. One that tells us that the best of men in this age have badness, is just being honest, not religiously intransigent.


57 posted on 05/29/2016 4:24:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: EinNYC

Even the toughest stuff has to know what battles to choose, because after all it isn’t God and there are always more powerful things that flourish for a season before they wither.

John Wayne didn’t feel an obligation to answer every taunt.

Maybe you have done everything that can be expected, or almost everything. Have you thought of praying directly to God for help in the situation? There must even in the Jewish system be some kind of prayer for the purpose, as the scripture says to pray for the good of those you sojourn among.


58 posted on 05/29/2016 4:27:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: raybbr

Now you’re just being insulting to asses.


59 posted on 05/29/2016 4:30:35 PM PDT by hirn_man
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To: EinNYC

I’m sorry you have to go through that. I’m also sure there are kids in your school that want an education and are trapped in that hell hole.

May God bless you for staying there and attempting to give those kids one.


60 posted on 05/29/2016 4:37:06 PM PDT by hirn_man
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