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
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.