Getting kids to box was a fairly common approach back then. In many cases afterwards, they would actually become friends.
y high schoolers would come into the classroom pushing each other. It startled me but they were used to it. They seemed huge and powerful.
I said, “hey don’t you guys have some kind of boxig program where you can do that on your own time, away from us civilized people?”
“Oh, but, M. Crabtree”, in their best Eddie Haskell, “boxing is considered brutal and violent”.
I told this to a colleague later on. She, the Classics teacher, said, “well, do they know you’re Irish?”.
Hmm. That was a new one.
I brought the flyers on the wrestling program and treated them like gentlemen. by the end of the year they were opening doors, jumping up to retrieve fallen erasers, cleaning the board and sometimes even arriving in dark sunglasses acting like secret service. this mixed in with their usual animalistic disruptive nasty behavior they fight hard to eradicate.
Tehy’re hard-wired to please and to figure out how to get ahead AND how to please girls.
Liberals and the DEA don’t figure out that people do not fundamentally change.