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To: Leaning Right

I’ll offer her a .45-caliber expression of my sympathy that she can use on these mutants.


23 posted on 11/02/2015 9:56:54 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Alberta's Child
I’ll offer her a .45-caliber expression of my sympathy that she can use on these mutants.

She doesn't need a .45 (at least not most of the time!). But what she does need is the simple power to permanently remove disruptive students from her classroom. Sadly, she'll never be given that power.

A not-so-short story: I once taught a science class of 30 kids, four of whom sometimes acted out (although not as bad as in the video). There was one ringleader in that group.

I was almost always in conflict with that kid. Nothing worked. It got so bad - and I received so little help from anyone - that I took to carrying a heavy iron ring stand with me in the hallways. Since I was a science teacher, that raised no eyebrows.

I fully expected to be jumped by him. And I fully expected to use that ring stand to give him a little surprise.

Anyway, a happy ending. The kid was arrested for selling drugs in the school, and was expelled. With no ringleader, everyone else settled down. It became a fun class to teach. (By the way, in city schools, "expelled" just means transferred to another building.)

24 posted on 11/02/2015 10:15:02 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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