They are oozing out of the ground in their spring offensive, and are winding up in troll boot hill.
Posted on 04/13/2008 11:24:45 AM PDT by wagglebee
Did you catch the video this week of a student kicking the stuffing out of an art teacher in Baltimore, Maryland while the rest of the class cheered the pounding on? Y’know, if that teacher was moi, and some F-bomb dropping Darwinian throwback came over my desk to accost me, I’d grab my handy dandy scissors and plant ‘em in the feral teen’s skullcap, Jason Voorhees style.
From there I would proceed to snag the American flag from the corner of the room (if there was one) in order to stave off the rest of the flesh eating zombies ‘til Jason Statham came in with dual SKSes, spitting 154 grain FMJs, to assist with my safe exit.
As a teacher, I’d have painted on the front of my desk: DON’T TREAD ON ME—and I’d have the moxie to back it up.
Bumming a line from a movie with the late great Charlton Heston, it looks like the public schools (especially in the inner cities) are being run by “damned dirty apes.” The violent and obnoxious students are becoming emboldened in their bellicose behavior within the ridiculously overcrowded Public Stool System, and I believe we haven’t seen the half of this catastrophic snake. Teachers, you’d better have a serious plan in place—other than pushing a panic button—should you be next.
I’m not a prophet or a betting man, but (as stated) I’m a guessing it’s going to get worse. I’m talkin’ way bad (pardon my English; I went to Publik Skule). Mark my words. And I don’t care how much Obama talks about hope, or how many inspirational songs American Idol contestants cover, the dysfunctional die has been officially cast for increased chaos in the inner city classroom. Thank you, liberals.
We’ve got a stack of untamed teens who can’t do arithmetic doing the math and figuring out that they can bank street credit for their constant disruptions and violent attacks upon students and teachers with the penalty for their crimes being (maybe) a milquetoast slap on their tattooed wrist. Maybe. And the perks for their misbehaving? Well, they radically trump the mild and tame thump the delinquent gets on their never-utilized head.
Can you say, “Hello, pandemonium?” I knew you could.
Who the heck would want to be a teacher within such an out-of-control environment? I know if I were an undergrad with dreams of teaching “the next generation” within the Public Fool System, I think I’d switch majors after YouTubing the video of that teacher getting tenderized this week while the class was hooting and hollering.
Yep, I’d be looking for something less threatening like being a mole inside of an al-Qaeda death squad, or perhaps working as ranting Rosie’s personal assistant, or perhaps a vocation in neutering un-anesthetized, unusually angry wolverines.
It’s been four years since we pulled our teenage daughters out of the public school system and started to home school them, and I could kick myself for having waited so long. I owe you, girls. The educational, emotional, spiritual and physical progress they have made has been amazing. I’ve been ecstatically stunned at how they’ve aggressively embraced the new lease on their educational life.
Since we began this program, my oldest has graduated and is now in a great university and on her way to Boardwalk and Park Place. My other daughter is currently cruising through her online honors level classes as a girl uninterrupted.
Yep, it’s amazing that with their virtual schooling they actually get to study the basics, pursue their educational and athletic interests, and do it from wherever in the world they can get online (unlike public schools).
No longer do they have to wait for the 186% overcrowded class to decide to cease fighting and stop cussing and humping long enough that the teacher can teach the students how to write their name so that, later on in life, they can sign for their stuff once they leave whatever prison they’re in.
Well, the troll’s gone now.
49th BUSTED!!!! lol
Hope you’ll all watch Ben Stein’s movie re: ID, etc., coming out this Friday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002141/posts
Ben Stein was on Laura Ingrahams’s show yesterday, and it was a very interestig interview.
btw, If you see a movie when it first comes out, it has a better chance of staying in the theaters longer.
Please see my post #104 (but ignore the typo).
See you at the movies. :)
I’m going to try to see it this weekend.
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Okay
Funny how that happens.
Thanx.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty funny.
“I’m going to try to see it this weekend.”
Kewl.
I wish they would show it in the publik skools.
I’d love to say I had something to do with it, but I’m just a happy witness.
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ZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPP!
Nice work, wagglebee.
Many of us suspected that he was a retread for the same reason you mentioned.
Another star or number to add to the laurel wreath of DC martyrs?
*roll eyes*
Even if government schools were uniformly wonderful, ALL government schools are fundamentally flawed. All government schools are a freedom of conscience and First Amendment abomination for both the child and the parent.
There is no such thing as a religiously, culturally, or politically neutral education. It is impossible. When government runs schools it **will** uphold and establish the religious, cultural, and political worldview of some and trash those of others.
Also, government herds children into its schools and then trashes every one of their First Amendment Rights. Government tells them to shut up, forbids free press, restricts their religious expression, trashes their right to freely associate, and subjects them to the government religious, cultural, and political worldview.
Yes, some parents are able to pay a **RANSOM** and they are able to privately or home school their children. But...This extra school expense is really a freedom of conscience tax.
By the way, yes, I have known very diligent parents who have done well with some of their children in government schools ( excellent ones), yet, other of their children do not. Same parents, same home, same school, same **diligence**, but one or more don't make it. In every case, the parents have told me it was due to the friends the child made in their **excellent** government school.
Congratulations with your children. You beat the odds.
Research shows that 85% of Christian children from active Christian families leave the faith within 2 years of graduation from high school. I have personally know too many of these kids ( all from homes with outstandingly diligent parents).
In contrast, homeschoolers remain **faithful** by 90%. Personally, given the sad experience of other families with **dedicated** parents I wasn't about to take a crap shoot with government schooling, not even an **excellent** school. Government schools are a crap shoot that I personally and other homeschoolers don't want to take with our kids.
They are oozing out of the ground in their spring offensive, and are winding up in troll boot hill.
You kidding here right? Please tell me you are. Have you visited public schools? Private schools? I've conducted classroom observations in both environments. If anything, their is less tolerance of students being outspoken in a private school as compared to the public schools I've worked in. Private schools do not have any requirement to keep a student who engages in distruptive behavior. Public schools do. Therefore, private schools can, and do, eliminate students who disrupt the flow of education. Now, teachers in both environments allow for student discussion to take place that is relevant to the subject matter being taught. So, where is the "First Amendment" violation? Or, are you speaking soley to the fact that Religion is not allowed in public schools? Let's explore that. What if, say a public school system decided to teach Islam? Would you be okay with that? Or, how about Wikken? Would that be okay to you? What if Voodoo was the type of religion a public school decided to teach? Are you now into violating the First Amendment rights of those who would agree to allow that in those schools? See the slippery slope you are on? Who are you, or the state, to decide which religion will be allowed into the public schools? For the record, I'm for teaching religions values in public schools. The problem is, whose religious values? Where does the line get drawn here? By the way, yes, I have known very diligent parents who have done well with some of their children in government schools ( excellent ones), yet, other of their children do not. Same parents, same home, same school, same **diligence**, but one or more don't make it. In every case, the parents have told me it was due to the friends the child made in their **excellent** government school.
Would you also know parents of children who were put into private schools or homeschooled who have the same issues as the small sample you are using to escoriate public schools with? I do. The argument you make against public schools could be made against private schools and homeschooled students. All is needed is a small sample of bad behavior from those who exhibit bad behavior, and, based upon the reasoning used in many of the comments on this issue, you have a reason to attack an institution. That, in my opinion, is nothing more that poor logic.
So, you’re going to accept the bloviating of someone who is trying to turn a buck by selling his book? You should try thinking for yourself instead of buying into whatever “fad” comes down the pike which reinforces your stereotypical belief system
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