A typical ghetto school student’s reply to “Please put away your cell phone” or “Please be quiet” is “F___ you b___h. I gonna kill you with a knife/kill you with a gun/find you after school and jump yo a@@”, etc. I have been struck in the head by heavy thrown objects, spit on, had stuff thrown in my face, had a student attempt to write something on my backpack with White-Out, etc. This article is totally believable by me. I am sure that I also have PTSD and so do many of my colleagues. That’s the way it is in public schools, now. Oh, and not-so-ghetto schools have students doing the same thing, just not in such great numbers.
My mom is a Head Start teacher. They have three year olds respond to gentle correction by saying,”Get the F-— out of my face b——”.
Insane world.