"The First Rule of Fight Club"
They used to tell us “Not in the Classroom! Wait until recess and do that on the playground.”
“What did ya learn in class today son?”
Son: “I learned that it’s OK for men to beat the bejeebers out of women because we are all women.”
Father: “define woman for me son”
Son: “oh that’s hate speech father and I’m gonna havta report you”
One of our vice-principals in Jr. High back in the 70s (Washington Jr. High, Naperville Il) named Mr. Rossi ref-ed boxing matches between students, and encouraged any students who wanted to fight to come to him and he’d ensure that is was fair and safe. Brilliant, except I don’t think he considered the liability risk to which he was exposing the school.
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She’s a victim. In her socio-economic-racial class that is exactly what education is. School system owes her reparations. Teacher of the year.
She was wrong and now she’s busted, but what does that indicate? Maybe there should be a Boxing or mixed Martial Arts class offered to students, a class with proper supervision.
Do these schools have many outlets to burn some of that young energy? Not everyone is interested in playing basketball.
For me, Karate and Boxing were the only sports I really cared about. Everything else I found to be quite boring.
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Coach Hill, at my Junior High, also taught Texas History. In his classroom there was a work table in the back, that was out of eye-sight from the classroom door.
When he caught students fighting, he would ask them if they want to get the paddle, a call to their parents, and probably a suspension, or if they would like to settle this once and for all with a “smoker”.
He would move the table and give them each a pair of boxing gloves and give them 2-minute rounds until they decided the “issue was settled”.
Most of us chose the smoker over the Principal’s office. Back then most of us who got swats at school got more from our parents once we got home!!