Just damn.
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Posted on 08/30/2006 7:28:53 AM PDT by zlala
VICTORVILLE —Victor Valley Union High School District teachers have been coached on a new approach to disciplining students.
At issue is whether teachers need to adjust how they interact with and discipline students who misbehave, particularly students from difficult backgrounds.
Culberson, director of youth services for the San Bernardino City Unified School District, said at a back-to-school inservice meeting that students today have less respect for authority than they did when many teachers were in school and consequently, some teachers have unrealistic expectations of their students.
The district superintendent, Julian Weaver, said Culberson’s message does not represent a change in district disciplinary policy, but...teachers need to learn to interpret their students’ body language. When a student is visibly agitated, the teacher might not want to push any buttons by asking if he or she brought in homework that day.
“We need to see ourselves as teachers and adults in the classroom,” Weaver said, “but we shouldn’t see ourselves as dictators, where students see themselves as far less than the teacher.”
Teachers should never take anything a student says personally, Culberson said. He referred to a teacher’s personal “f-— you” meter, meaning the number of times a teenager swears at them before they would discipline the student. If teachers have a low tolerance for bad behavior and frequently send a student out of the classroom, the students will drive them crazy whereas teachers with a high tolerance will be able to calmly follow school procedure and still discipline the student, Culberson said in an interview. State law prohibits vulgarity and swearing in the classroom and allows discipline ranging from suspension to being expelled, no matter what background a student comes from.
“Everything that I do is designed for the mental health of the teacher,” Culberson said.
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Luckily there are now letters to the editor in the Daily Press speaking out against this enlightened "new professionalism." If we think publik skools are bad now...with this type of allowance, no family that has standards & expectations will be able to send their children there.
And to think we are all paying for this crap.
The squishier the authority, the less respect they’ll get.
OH! That's right...shame one me. Call out the ACLU - defenders of the righteous & just. /s
Just damn.
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If we were in the business of raising serial killers and rapist I'd say give this man a raise and a raccoon fur hat! But as it is he should be arrested.
Yep. You summed it up perfectly.
Don't offend my pet animal with your correlation. She is trained, obedient, and faithful. Instead of you using the word 'animal', may I sugeest - The juice on the bottom of a garbage can.
...brought in homework that day.
...finished the test.
...had an written excuse for being absent yesterday.
...would please sit down and be quiet.
...would stop interrupting class.
...would put away the knife.
(et cetera)
(I thank God every day we can homeschool.)
Their answer to this and any problem is to apply the same liberalism and "tolerance" which has destroyed the school system.
Is this a joke???
This guy must have gone to some expensive private school.
It's going to turn into DU, but you will be able to hear it instead of just reading it.
If you don't expect better of them, you won't get it.
Yo, yo, yo, dat not be dissin you, dat be da slang dat de kids be slingin now. Weuns jus needs ta get long.
Both men should be fired immediately.
lmao
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