Posted on 03/10/2015 12:10:26 PM PDT by dennisw
Kudos to Ruthanne Stadnick
The 62-year-old Fort Lauderdale teacher was punched Friday by an angry student. The 12-year-old boy was upset that he couldn't bring a basketball to class. Stadnik's eye was injured.
But Stadnik, a sixth-grade teacher is not deterred.
She wants to get back into the ring, er, classroom.
This sounds like a student following in the shoes of Trayvon Martin. Today punching a Teacher, tomorrow maybe a cop and maybe with a weapon? I don't know what race this kid is, and it doesn't matter. Potential Thugs come in all colors. Parenting is where the underlying problem...
That's a class act.
"I love my students and my job," Stadnik told the Sun Sentinel. "This will not stop me."
Not much stops good teachers.
Not the fact that they are poorly paid. Not the fact that the state holds them accountable for student performance, even as school standards get tougher and remain in flux. And not the fact that raises promised to South Florida teachers by the Governor a year ago have yet to materialize.
Teachers work long hours. They feed kids who show up hungry. They use their own money to buy school supplies.
We all know this. And we do nothing about it.
When you hear a story about a teacher like Stadnik, it should make us all ashamed.
We need teachers like her. We desperately need teachers like her.
And we need those teachers who continue to show up despite ever-growing hurdles.
Several weeks ago authorities found a .357 Smith & Wesson handgun, mask, knife, ammunition and fireworks in the book bag of a 13-year-old boy in the school's cafeteria. That child was arrested It says something about Stadnik that she wants to go back to work. It says something about all good teachers.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Yes, I am the victim of a Basketball Jones
Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin’
In fac’, I was de baddest dribbler in the whole neighborhood
Then one day, my mama bought me a basketball
And I loved that basketball
I took that basketball with me everywhere I went
That basketball was like a basketball to me
I even put that basketball underneath my pillow
Maybe that’s why I can’t sleep at night
I need help, ladies and gentlemens
I need someone to stand beside me
I need, I need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life
Someone I can pass to
This kid's mom needs to start working on her “he was a good boy who never did anything wrong” act for the day he get shot or sent to prison.
Obama’s son I suppose ?
Gosh, I don’t know about this. I wonder how much good even the excellent teachers are doing when they show up when a situation is out of control. It’s teaching good kids to accept bad behavior.
The site seems to have pulled this story. For blaspheming Saint Trayvon?
While I agree that parenting is part of the problem, it by no means is the entirety of the problem.
These schools allow these little assho—s to do as they please, afraid to challenge them and make them tow the line. Moral relativism is what it’s all about at the core of it.
If these parents lower the boom on the kid at home, the schools will report them to a state agency.
The schools are sold on the idea there is no right or wrong. If little Trayvon “likes himself” that is all we can hope for.
Then one of these kids flashes and all of a sudden it’s the parent’s fault. Hey, aren’t those the same parents these schools think are unfit to raise kids by themselves anyway? Why yes..., yes they are.
In this instance, one of their own is the victim. Generally it isn’t. With no morals these kids inflict pain on the community at large. Nothing is out of bounds until the kid kills someone and all of a sudden someone says “NO” for the first time in the kid’s life.
LOL, so now the schools want to blame the parents.
Man these organizations are screwed up.
I know a similarly dedicated woman who was, very likely, deliberately hit in an eye with a baseball. Years later, she still has health problems because of it. So sad, when someone has to endure pain for doing what they love to do and serve children.
This is not in the original story. Please mark your editorial remarks as such.
Yea right. We need more 62 year old human punching bags for poor oppressed youths.
For every good teacher there are two useless slugs drawing a paycheck greater than anything they would get in another industry. Until teachers as a profession decouple themselves from unions and tenure based contracts I have little sympathy for the working conditions.
Sing It!
Being shot would do a lot more good, prevent a lot of crime, and cost the taxpayers one or two million less than sending the thing to prison.
Omgwannakikbouti
Clue 1: Affinity for a basketball.
The “public school” system is an abomination-—and a government Marxist system of indoctrination. It is evil.
Until this artificial system to remove children from their Natural Family so all Common Sense and humane learning is destroyed——it is designed to destroy morality in all children, have “peer” (immature) morality habituated, “group think” forced. Virtue formation which is learned and habituated in the formative years, is obliterated, this country will sink deeper into the moral morass of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Libido Dominandi—so-called “sexual liberation” (the sodomy Sade crowd), is just about political and social controls. The more sexual freedom, the less freedom.
It goes back to Socrates, as the Founders ALL knew, so our Natural Rights were from God—never the State. Without Virtue, there is no Freedom possible. Promoting vice-—which is all schools and our government have been doing since 1960s will collapse culture. That is why unconstitutional law is any which promotes Vice (in theory).
We are almost there with the forcing (through “Just” Law LOL) of all people to recognize sodomy as a Right from God.....flipping the Wisdom of over 2000 years to Marquis de Sade’s “moral system” which will lead to chaos and tyranny only, just like his beloved French Revolution which was the culmination of his “ethics” system..
Virtue-now there’s a word you don’t hear much of these days. Yes, we have replaced natural law with systems that promise to produce good in kids without ‘repressing’ them with moral strictures. And only our own delusions blind us to the end result.
This 12 year old won’t be playing basketball at Penn State, he’ll be playing at State Pen...
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