Attack on Teachers

Townhall.com ^ | September 16, 2015 | Walter E. Williams

[WKUHilltopper]

You’re right...everywhere. The fun has yet to begin.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

My reference to SOCIETY was directed at the original poster's assertion that teachers today are simply pussies who won't stand up to students physically and stop the bellicosity that rules many of our schools' hallways. I used it as a reference as to why we CAN'T use physical force in reaction to students without fear of lawsuits/arrest these days as society won't even condone spanking unruly children without a visit from CPS.

I hope that clears up my intent...

[Carry_Okie]

I hope that clears up my intent...

Which is not to read what I offered you.
A fine example you make.

[EinNYC]

Three year olds telling their teacher ”Get the F-— out of my face b——”? Can you imagine them by the time they reach high school—if they make it that far? This is what walks into so many classrooms in larger cities. And teachers are supposed to educate thugs like this—if they survive long enough to do so. But it’s not PC to take out disruptive students, so all must suffer and be prevented from learning.

[NorthstarMom]

And this was in the small rural city of St. Peter Minnesota. The town has, however had a huge influx of people from the inner city. Just like Mankato, St. Cloud and Willmar.

[generally]

Great point. Yet the teflon libs always manage to make it the fault of conservatives, white people, “bad policies” or anything other than the liberal teachers, liberals in general, or the black who commit the crimes/infractions. Maybe it’s Bush’s fault.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Your snarkiness is duly noted and not appreciated.

That being said, I fully understand the point to which you refer in your original response; however, BH initially posted a comment lambasting teachers for their "lack of courage", so to speak, in physically confronting students who get out of line. I responded in order to explain the environment in which we (teachers) work as of TODAY, REGARDLESS of the manner in which this state came about. My response was in NO WAY intended to entertain the history of how our inability to deal with students in this manner came to pass, only how our CURRENT inability to deal with students in this manner is quantified in light of BH's initial assertion.

Hope this clears up any further confusion you have regarding the intention of my response to your post. -EA

[Carry_Okie]

Your snarkiness is duly noted and not appreciated.

It was not snarky; it was deeply critical. I offered you three books detailing a history with which you are clearly unfamiliar, documenting that the destruction of our social order through public education was an intentional on the part of the extremely wealthy tax-exempt foundations of primarily Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller. I then offered an article I have written as to what to do about it. You clearly chose to ignore it all. So I busted you on it using a metric that goes to the heart of you being an educator, that you are unwilling to educate yourself, lacking even the curiosity to search those links.

It's true. Wear it proudly. Two of those books are published online free by they way as an act of public service despite the fact that they are very successful authors.

I home educated my girls. It took me LESS time to educate them at home than did dealing with their stupid private school teaching the same methods that have destroyed public education. One became valedictorian of her college at the age of barely 20, the other transferred to Stanford and is now a PhD candidate in a top tier program.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

While I applaud the success of your homeschooling efforts, it has become wholly apparent that the two of us have an irreparable disconnect insomuch as our individual arguments are concerned. I have also grown tired of your thinly veiled air of superiority (whether perceived intellectual acuity or otherwise) implied in your responses.

That being said, I shall refrain from employing ad hominem in my response, either explicit or implicit, and simply end this colloquy.

Good day, kind sir.

-EA

[Carry_Okie]

I have also grown tired of your thinly veiled air of superiority (whether perceived intellectual acuity or otherwise) implied in your responses.

Not veiled, apparent. I'm demonstrably willing to educate myself. You are apparently not, despite the fact that one of the sources I offered was written by a "teacher of the year" in New York and another by a former Undersecretary of Education.

That being said, I shall refrain from employing ad hominem in my response, either explicit or implicit, and simply end this colloquy.

And learn nothing. Great teacher you'll make. /s