Believe it or not I support the school district for their actions.
I have substituted in middle school classrooms with boys that shoot spitwads and folded paper with rubber bands and, let me tell you, from personal experience it is NOT fun. It really IS dangerous. I’ve had them fly by my face within inches of my eyes. It is impossible to teach the lesson with this going on and don’t even think about turning your back to get something or write on the board. They leave a mess around the room on the floor and counters. And the worst part is these little jerks are hard to catch because they’re firing from a room of 25 kids and you don’t always see where it comes from. They hide their pen and rubber bands in their pockets and lie to you when you confront them. And when I do catch one of them I am LIVID and have to contain myself not to scream at them.
Not a good situation.
So I don’t have a problem with these little sh@#$ getting suspended, especially when they’ve been previously warned.
Way back, when both male and female teachers would “rip your ass off” with a paddle right there in the classroom, we were very careful not to shoot these “dangerous” weapons at the teacher because if he/she found out who did it, certain pain “attitude adjustment” would surely follow as sure as the sun rise in the morning.
Now, thanks to you and everyone else in the teaching profession who coddle our little rascals (and I was one) they are not afraid of you and now you reap the rewards of being sensitive, caring, politically correct, diverse and supportive of the entire agenda of our school system that has the goal of indoctrination instead of education and discipline.
The next time one of those little “cherubs” shoots you with a paper clip or wad, just think back in the 50’s and 60’s you could actually do something about it and teach the culprit that bad behavior begets pain.