Posted on 10/10/2018 12:24:10 PM PDT by jazusamo
More tweets at link.
White House senior political adviser Stephen Miller's third grade teacher is out with a new op-ed criticizing him for his adolescent behavior. While a student at Santa Monica's Franklin Elementary school, Miller was a loner and ate glue, his former teacher Nikki Fiske regretted.
Do you remember that character in Peanuts, the one called Pig Pen, with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him? That was Stephen Miller at 8. I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk — he always had stuff mashed up in there. He was a strange dude. I remember he would take a bottle of glue — we didn't have glue sticks in those days — and he would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it.
I remember being concerned about him — not academically. He was OK with that, though I could never read his handwriting. But he had such strange personal habits. He was a loner and isolated and off by himself all the time. ( The Hollywood Reporter )
His behavior was so alarming that she had to have a conference with his parents.
How this is all relevant to 2018 or his work in the White House, I have no clue.
While many Trump admin critics were gleeful to see his elementary school teacher roast Miller and expose his strange habits as a kid, others asked, seriously?
I ate Playdoh once in first grade on a dare for a Jolly Rancher. Are we seriously doing this?
Even those who don't like Miller what Ms. Fiske did was just plain wrong.
and picked boogers.....Ahhhh! But Whose?
Yes it is, and as a school teacher that wrote an op-ed about a former student it's most unethical.
Do the current parents at Franklin Elementary wonder what Fiske will publish about their children? How is this allowed?
A kid who was doing this was probably a bright student bored out of their mind because the teacher was teaching to the lowest denominator in the classroom.
My son got in trouble for running his pencils along the radiator while other kids were finishing worksheets. Teacher finally admitted he’d finish 15 or 20 minutes ahead of most of the other kids, and even checked through his answers. I asked her could he be allowed to read a book once he was done. She seemed horrified, this was math class! Finally let him bring a book and he would read quietly while waiting, Problem solved.
Any teacher who “tattles” on a student like this, if still working, should be fired. It’s just plain wrong.
I did too! The stuff tasted good.
I’m sure it isn’t allowed. Having said that we know leftists don’t give a whit about what’s allowed or not.
Yup. She is still teaching third grade at Franklin Elementary, same school.
I think you nailed it, bright kids are often bored to death when the instructor teaches to the lowest denominator.
I know for a fact that was the case in Army basic training many years ago.
She definitely should be fired.
Another reason to homeschool ...
Absolutely!
No “permanent record” other than standardized test scores.
Exactly what you said.
BTTT
Every year some kid eats paste. It's why school paste is non-toxic. It's easy for a teacher to convince herself that the kid who ate the paste grew up to be somebody she now hates as an adult.
I remember painting rubber cement on my hand and peeling it off. I remember getting wax fake fangs from the store and eating them.
Kids do stuff like that.
Hey, it's October.
Maybe I can find a store that carries those wax fake fangs.
I’m 62. I went to the Catholic schools of the 1960’s. Yup. The days of nuns in the penguin suits. Sister Mary Immaculate had a left hook that could have floored Mike Tyson. We used to have that white paste glue in the big jars. Have to say the stuff tasted..... pretty good.
I remember the wax fangs. And those wax like “Coke’’ bottle candies that had that sugary syrup in it.
Crazy that she is still teaching.
I wonder if instead of just thinking he was odd, and a loner - if she had done something for this misfit loner. Being an expert on politics and on the radio in high school, I’m guessing he was just very bright, and didn’t fit in with the other “normal” third grade boys.
There was a story on FR where all the kids on some school council would find some kid sitting alone at lunch and invite them over to sit with them. REALLY great idea.
I hated sitting alone at lunch in high school. And then college. Out on jobs now I’ll take a TV dinner in my motel room before I’ll sit in a restaurant by myself.
What an ass. I hope she gets nailed for this. How unethical to discuss a former student like this.
I tried paste in both kindergarten and first grade. Eh, it smelled like candy, something that was banned at home. It wasnt good.
My own and I likes it!
In today’s world, third graders SNIFF glue......sigh
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