Posted on 12/05/2011 3:39:15 PM PST by Libloather
I was thrown out of school in the early 60s for no good reason. Unfortutately, we lived on a military base, overseas, at the time. They let me back to a standing ovation. So much for being an example. I’m a CPA in West Virginia with a “Top Secret” security clearance.
My oldest son left school in the 9th grade because of the prison approach. He’s an honors student at WVU. We must punish the brightest and best.
Remember, those who can’t do teach, and, those who can’t teach, teach teachers!
Ha! My little brother, a complete stereo typical jock, ran for class treasure his senor year and his campaign speech was burping the alphabet. He won.
Actually, no one interferes with public education more than unionized teachers.
Dickie P. (RIP) was known to fart in class and turn around and blame the kid behind him. It wasn’t an everyday thing but enough to make school fun. I am laughing with tears recalling him.
Mein Gott! Good thing the kid wasn’t chewing gum. They might have executed him.
I recall letting a loud one rip in my 5th grade history class. We were learning about the golden age of Greece.
I think it set me back with the gals for a few years.
And it was the same classroom about the same time (I remember this vividly, and haven’t thought about it for decades) when the cue-ball bald PR cop came in to do his school outreach. I have no recollection what he told us us, except that he joked about waxing his shiny head.
Now, all the cops where I live are goons, kids who shave their heads and wear wraparound “badass” sunglasses.
“...and I never put Firecrackers in the Jello again”
Sounds like fun. I might have to try that.
“Go to school. Become a criminal.” It makes a great t-shirt.
Do today’s kids even know how to make rude noises with their armpits?
Call it for what it is.
Belching loudly is just pretty rude.
Most students learned about that as 2nd graders and socially were not encouraged to continue amongst valued peers.
Some never learn and find it to be a mechanism to disrupt others and the learning environment.
The school should have mechanisms by which to discipline the students, which either the parents may agree to accept or remove their children from that environment.
Unfortunately, we’ve had a liberal education establishment attempt to counterfeit both legitimate authority and the family, no longer holding children accountable as children.
I’d recommend having the Principal of the school and the student who exhibits such rude behavior, both be forced to endure one another until the situation is worked out. Let the Administration suffer the consequences of not enforcing legitimate authority at the appropriate level and let the student miss his opportunity to learn when behaves rudely.
First burps, then looks are next. As in, he gave me a bad look, arrest him.
Ditto. I'm wiping away the tears of laughter, just thinking about my elementary school days. Back then, the New Orleans public schools followed the local tradition of serving red beans and rice on Mondays. Those afternoons were often entertaining.
In fifth grade, I had a male teacher - a very rare thing in those days. He just couldn't feign the outrage over that stuff as well as the women did. There were a few moments that I recall him struggling for composure, like Harvey Korman when on camera with Tim Conway.
We had a kid in the 4th grade with the belching alphabet gift. I still remember his name :)
Yep. One of those who disrupts class day after day after day until even the other kids are asking the teacher to get him out of there. I know the type well.
A_perfect_lady: Yep. One of those who disrupts class day after day after day until even the other kids are asking the teacher to get him out of there. I know the type well.
You two realize that NONE of what you're saying even remotely justifies this kid getting arrested for burping, right?
Right?
Sheesh.
It is closer to the flesh trade then anything else,you single out individuals and stigmatize them.Overtime they become more and more subordinate to the whims of those who put them there in the first place.
Horrible way to school children,especially teenagers.13 is just like 18 and in sense 21....a time when you move from one to another in your existence and your particular vulnerable to people trying to book you over.
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