If I'd acted like the kids in this article, my butt would have glowed in the dark by the time my parents were through with me.
Thank you!
A teacher with a 12" wooden ruler should've been able to solve that problem.
Your butt would have probably been glowing way before your parents got to school. At least, when i was in school, mine would have been.
The 8-year-old girl who acted up last week goes to Hamilton Disston School in Gulfport, for children who are severely emotionally disturbed or who have other disabilities such as speech or vision impairments. After school, she is bused to Fairmount for R'Club, a nonprofit learning program.
This is an amazing story for I attended Roser Park elementary school (no longer extant) in St. Pete FL in the early 60's. We had to line up in the cafeteria and march back to our classroom. The route led outside and through the playground, past the tetherball pole. I was near the end of the line with my friends, and to a man, we all grabbed that pole and swung around it, lifting our bodies parallel to the ground and making a few circuits around the mast. This seemingly innocent behavior was observed by one of the Goody-Two-Shoes near the front of the line who informed the teacher that we had deviated from proper 'Returning to Class' procedure. Five of us miscreant boys were remanded to the custody of the principal where, in turn, we were ushered into her office and throttled with her 1/2" thick Board of Discipline. Our butts were indeed glowing red from the experience, but the real fear was that our parents would find out. No cops, no lawyers, no hand wringing, just instant discipline.
This story just jogged a memory with me. St Petersburg, elementary school, discipline, tetherball...
calling ted kennedy.......need another 20 billion for education!!!!
"If I'd acted like the kids in this article, my butt would have glowed in the dark by the time my parents were through with me."
Little girl, let me introduce you to my friend Mr. Belt.
We have had several children like this at the Primary School where I work. One girl was quite like the one in this article, although she was 7. She would throw fits in the classroom, attack other students and the teacher, and her parents said her behavior was very similar at their home.
One night, about 2:00 am a police officer (who happened to be the brother of this girl's teacher) saw her wandering the streets alone. He called DSS (Department of Social Services- as is required when young children are involoved in situations like this) he followed the girl in his patrol car, and eventually got her in his car.
When he took her back to her house, her parents were still in bed- they had no idea she had gotten out of the house. A person with DSS met the officer at the girl's house.
This woman got there in time to hear the furious father tell the girl he was going to spank her for what she did. This woman looks at the father and told the officer that if he touched his daughter he was to be arrested. She then told the child that if he or her mother spanked her she was to call her so her parents could be arrested.
The officer told the DSS worker she didn't know what she was doing, that his sister worked with this child and that DSS was only making the sitaution worse. He went on to tell the woman that he would not arrest the father for disciplining his child. The child ended up being commited for a psychiatric evaluation and medicated.
Radioactive paddle?