Momfirst, my hat is off to you. Our kids are going to suffer their share of jerks for teachers in school, just as we had to do. Learning to put up with these is just a part of growing up and learning how to properly function in society.
Someone else being the idiot fool of all time never gave my children an excuse for their own poor attitude or behavior. Not that they didn't try it of course, lol!
We just never got sucked in, having a good and clear idea of what kind of adults we were hoping they would become.
And, for those of you who are fussing about assigned seating during lunch, what on earth are you thinking? There are all kinds of reasons for assigning seats during lunch perios, and not all of them are "fascist".
When I went to school, (clear back when we had to trudge three miles through howling blizzards), we never even got to go to a "lunch room"! We had to eat our brown bag lunches at our little desks, and the only diversion provided by the school were little cartons of milk passed out by the teacher who watched us eat with beady eyes.
I was usually weeping quietly into my waxed paper because I had a liverwurst and ketchup sandwich, and no-one would trade with me.
Liverwurst and KETCHUP! No! No! It has to be liverwurst and MUSTARD!
Schools must do a lot better on discipline
http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/opinion/columnists/20040520-120436.shtml
This is an interesting editorial ---- in one school discipline cut the class size by 40% That's almost half the kids!! It's become quite a free-for-all in some schools --- and the taxpayers are just having their money wasted. If kids want a social event then let them quit school and join a club.