I always had a soft sport for boys, having been a mother to 3 of my own. I always thought they got the short end of the stick because they can be a pain the rear end, but they are so funny when you give them a chance. I still get along better with boys than girls, they don’t tend to be drama queens (ok a few FReepers aside! LOL).
And yes, one reason I’m not teaching any more is I didn’t want to teach here in Palm Beach County FL. I liked my little rural East TX school, which was not very PC, we got away with stuff that would not be tolerated in other places (heck, after 9/11 someone brought each teacher a poster with an American flag and In God We Trust on it and we all put them on our doors!)
I liked teaching teenagers. They are knot heads, but it’s fun to watch them grow up. However they are prone to stupid mistakes, and if you don’t have honest to goodness adults in charge of them, you will get more and more incidents like this one. It makes me ill to read these stories. If I had kids today I would probably home school.
That's a very unfortunate typo given the topic of the thread....
Back then, teachers were not babysitters. Let me tellya, I've been whacked a few times by my teachers too. When I would tell Mom, she would simply say, ‘good, you probably deserved it’. Yeah, she was right. I did.
In my days, hardly a student would get out of line cause they knew that they would get whacked if they did.
I read a thread here the other day that says that Mass. has banned the flag and the Pledge Of Allegiance in public schools. I am absolutely dumbfounded by this. Such a disgrace our schools are now.
I agree, If I had kids now, I too would home school them.
Nice chatting with ya brytlea. God Bless.
“they don’t tend to be drama queens (ok a few FReepers aside! LOL).” I resent that sexist remark....some of us are drama “kings”!
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