63 Replies to “Your Children Are Being Taught By Crazy People”

  1. The police in the USSR received training on improvised weapons used by criminals. Sharpened pencil was among the items they learned about.
    A well placed stab with a hard sharpened pencil can penetrate temple or rib cage.
    But that’s criminal behaviour. It’s already banned.
    Needless to say the actual list of improvised weapons was several pages long, the pencil being only some 20th or 50th item on the list.
    The teacher is a typical knee-jerk know-it-all socialist type.

  2. Mr. Noseworthy stated that the teacher who stuck her nose in the pockets and back packs of students was not worthy of support. It all happened so fast that Noseworthy said this was not newworthy.
    I remember hearing a coke dealer state once that his product was Noseworthy … whatever. It’s all insane no matter how bad my attempt a humor here is.
    With all this PC crapolla … If he were a student today … would LLoyd Axeworthy be allowed to bring his name to school with him.
    Finally, I didn’t think that teachers were still allowed to use the term ‘weapon’ I thought they had to call it a man made or not man made (in the case of a rock) object of potential harm.

  3. If you outlaw pencils, only outlaws will have pencils.
    If the teachers are concerned that students are using pencils improperly, call the parents. If no parent comes, suspend the kid. Stupid parents hate having to look after their own kids. They will play ball and give you some face-time if that means not taking time off of work or whatever it is they do.
    I’ve always told my students to have their supplies ready or else they would not be issued the supplies. I once had to “charge” kids for pencils after a spate of forgetting their pencils for class. They must have hit every stationery supply store in town because they had more pencils than they knew what to do with!

  5. Amen, Howie!
    Homeschooling, we’ve been able to add horse riding and trap shooting to the curriculum. The children must have a childhood worth recalling when adults with sighs: ‘Remember, how we …?’ instead of being stuck in 4 cinder block walls under surveillance.

  6. Good luck with that idea. Attempting to ban all items that little boys might turn into a “weapon” is futile. You would end sitting on the bare floor of an empty room writing with chalk, and even that allows for the possibility of projectile chalk. Far too many teachers must be only children or from all girl families. Besides, punishing all kids instead of disciplining the troublemakers is almost as absurd as banning mechanical pencils.

  7. Mark Twain said it all:
    ” In the beginning, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then he created School Boards.”

  8. “This was an attempt to by a fairly new sixth-grade teacher to make changes that were not warranted.:
    In other words….this was an indoctrinated,facist fembot trying to push her lefty agenda on her captive students. Fire the stupid beyotch NOW.

  10. You bet Aaron. Vacations out of season, Science in the bush, etc. our kids had no idea that they were learning most of the time.

  11. I’ve taught classes of all boys. You can’t make them into girls. That’s immoral. Make them into gentlemen- who understand the importance of a laser turret on top of a fort.

  12. “a pen that had been altered to fire a rolled-up piece of paper”
    Well, glad we nipped that in the bud ! He might have grown up to be an engineer that discovers cold fusion or something.

  13. So spit-balls is a suspending offense now? I’d have never made it through school in this era considering all of the ‘improvised weapons’ I made and used. What about stink-bombs? A trip to Guantanamo? Here is a small incomplete list of ‘improvised weapons’ I made in school:
    – throwing stars (shop class)
    – light sabers
    – shaving cream filled projectiles
    – icicle spears
    – condom bombs(they gave us the condoms)
    – paper airplanes (you can lose an eye ya know)
    there’s more…but I digress
    Here is a list of registries that should be considered that can be used as raw materials for ‘improvised weapons’:
    Rubber band registry
    paper clip registry
    felt marker registry
    spit registry
    straw registry….

  14. French school chalk is, or at least used to be,
    synthetic, dense, and about 1 cm by 1cm of square
    cross section. A piece of that, about 2 cm long,
    fired from a rubber band, would really get your friend’s attention when bounced off his head.
    One method of hand to hand combat which is sometimes taught is to jab one’s thumb
    into your opponent’s eye. The results, if it is done right, are fatal.

  15. Heh. Back in the Neothlithic Era, when I was in elementary school, we made “drats”, which consisted of a piece of aluminum foil, from a candy wrapper, or even better a (gasp) cigarette package, formed into the shape of wine glass, with a base and a bell to it. Attach a spitball to the base, and pitch it at the ceiling, in an effort to make it stick. Too much fun!

  17. Nothing newsworthy about Noseworthy.
    Best line: “The superintendent said that anyone familiar with the school district would recognize that something was amiss with the first memo.”

  18. A liberal teachers uncontained emotional response to November 11th, the date the memo was issued and sent home with students. Seems she felt compelled to do her part to put an end to all violence and wars on a day which remberance and moments of silence are dedicated to those brave souls who fought in said wars to defend our freedoms and rights. Her use of the term weapons is telling indeed.

  19. I got stabbed by a pencil in grade 4. He was kinda cute, and until then I didn’t think he noticed me.

  21. “We never use words like weapons in this context,” the superintendent said.
    This is how he talks to adults.
    Before I hated lefties, I hated teachers.

  22. Upon hearing the proverb “The pen is mightier than the sword.” The school then announced a ban on pens.
    In order to prevent food fights… anything edible was banned.
    In order to prevent verbal violence, thought was added to the list of banned items.
    It was then noted that the first item that had been placed on the banned list some years earlier was intelligence.

  23. You realize of course that liberals a) consider you a child and b) don’t like children, right? That’s why, say, Hillary Clinton reminds you of your least favorite teacher from elementary school.

  24. They don’t need pencils, liberal educators aren’t interested in teaching children how to write or add they are interested in teaching them emotions, victimhood and woe alas it’s me how I suffer so.

  26. I went to school with the Scud Stud. J.Parry jabbed a compass point into his armpit. Our social studies teacher told Parry to sit down. Event over.

  28. Good grief. The poor dear would have run screaming from the Junior High I went to in Fort Mac. Many of us rode our dirt bikes or ski-doos to school as the season warranted. We had yearly turkey shoots and Winter Carnivals involving pellet guns, hatchets and the like. We made gun racks, gun cases, knives and potato guns in shop. Outdoor education included skinning and stretching beaver and muskrat, making snares and setting traps.
    In short…it was great!

  29. LOL.
    Some people watch too many ninja movies. I wonder when this teacher will forbid books— books thrown with force can also inflict injury.

  30. Wow. The lady would not have lasted a minute in my grade school. For spitball blowers we favoured the bic pen. For catapults we used large staples and elastics. For stink bombs we used retractable bics and a safety match. Ah those were the days. Funny we all emerged productive members of society after all that mayhem. I had a teacher in grade eight who (somehow) mastered the art of writing on the blackboard while facing us, as every time she turned her back, all hell broke loose.
    Anyway, let kids be kids. I find it refreshing they still (try) to play the same games we did when we were youngsters.

  31. syncro you left out throwing snow balls at the catholic school next door at recess I know cause I was there too.LOL

  34. syncrodox
    That likely doesn’t happen anymore….betcha….
    Back in the Jurasic 50’s everybody at my highschool was in Cadets—-not an option.
    Every male had to qualify on the rifle range (.22’s). Nobody got shot…..
    BTW we regularly won the Stratcona Shield….(best cadet corps). I recall even the urban thugs looked sharp at inspection….
    No more cadets at school, the boy’s brigade they call now call cadets get to shoot air-rifles….
    There is hope…an associate informs me that Kearney, Ontario (pop 800) harbours a 53 strong Cadet Corps….

  36. I’m laughing so hard I can barely type. The third paragraph of the principal’s letter talking about invisible pens is killing me. And they want to be taken seriously!!

  37. Sasquatch
    I’m sure it doesn’t although I suspect the kids in smaller communities have something closer to the experiences I had in the 70’s.
    Really sad how candy ass things have become.

  38. This is what happens when adults refuse to be adults and apply “zero tolerance” instead of logical consequences to every situation.
    This is what happens when idiots cater to the lowest common denominator, thus lassoing everyone into the Lost Cause Corral, even though only a very few belong there.
    This imbecilic idiocy is the logical consequence of the liberal-left-permissive-Kumbaya-the-world-is-one-(and-OMG-what-do-we-do-now?) dispensation.

  41. From the article referenced here: “Asked to comment on the fallout from the teachers’ action, she [the principal] said ‘There is nothing newsworthy about the day-to-day running of a school.’” What utter crap.
    If the average citizen had even the scintilla of knowledge about the gross insubordination, incivility, and all out aggressive behaviour of a critical mass of students, that goes on in our public schools, day in and day out, the ordinary person might have some sympathy for the teacher.
    Yes, the teacher’s fiat is ridiculous. But I’ll bet that the administrators in this school district, like the ones I’m familiar with, have given no support at all to the teacher. The administrators sit in their offices, high and mighty, above the fray. Admit the depths of chaos and degradation going on, on their watch? You’ve got to be kidding. Everything’s A-OK.
    Teachers, in the trenches, who try to deal with the gargantuan problems that they have no choice but to deal with—with no support from admin. or parents—may do things that are unreasonable. The fact that the “superiors” of the teachers under consideration here seem more than willing to sacrifice their integrity says to me that, the inordinately compensated, sycophantic and toady administrators have both turned a blind eye—altogether typical—to the problems their teachers are dealing with, and are more than willing to let the problems continue. Asshats—and I don’t mean the teachers.
    That SDA regulars are so willing to throw teachers, especially those who dare to discipline a child, under the bus is disturbing. (And, yes, like those SDAers I’m referring to, I’m altogether in support of both charter schools and homeschooling.)
    If the average citizen had ANY IDEA of the anarchy in our schools, unleashed by an entitled horde of unruly, dangerous, “I know my rights” insurgents—aka, pupils—and the fact that there is no coherent, get-tough strategy for dealing with such chaos, they might be willing to spare some sympathy for a misguided teacher who makes a mistake in trying—probably singlehandedly—to solve a serious problem.
    I’m as politically incorrect as it comes. I believe in “boys will be boys”. However, the waxing eloquent about boyhood infractions, re homemade weapons, doesn’t fit, by a long shot, the crass, dull-minded and -spirited, violence-prone “droogs” (A Clockwork Orange) teachers are now dealing with. Really.

  42. Um,OK, they’ve retracted the ban on pencils.
    But have they extended a ban on retractable pencils?
    Just making sure..

  47. lookout
    While I will admit to waxing nostalgic about how school once was, I take issue with the notion that the teacher in this instance is a victim.
    He/she grossly overreacted to what seems to be spitballs.
    Granted you make some very pertinent points regarding the demeanor and deportment of some students but I suggest that administrators, teachers and indeed parents have a lot of blame to share for the current state of affairs.
    Stanley Kubrick’s take on Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange IMHO was a brilliant and prescient view of the consequences of Statism.
    Policies like social advancement, zero tolerance for bullying and a overall focus on developing “self-esteem” have largely created the spoiled, entitled droogies of which you speak.
    Pampered Alex is the product of weak parents and a socialist state more concerned with fairness then reality.
    Dr. Spock and the hippies started this, feminists, leftist intelligentsia and their social worker foot soldiers have propagated this mess.

  48. syncrodox, exactly and my teacher son-in-law would wholeheartedly agree. The teachers union should be included on your list. Spock did as much to destroy our society as the leftist 5th column.
    Waaay back in grade 10 in Niagara, we made little Kleenex spitball blowguns from empty brass ball point pen refills. You just cut the writing end off where the crimp was and voila. Worked like a charm.
    Our targets were the array of Roman chariots, catapults, Viking ships and other history class models that where placed along the window ledges.
    One day, our teacher, an ex Hungarian Air Force pilot who flew Me 109s during the war and took a powder after April 45 when the Bolshies got too close, just nonchalantly stood in front of the class and casually mentioned something about the poor shots from the “barbarians” messing up the windows.
    You know what? We stopped.

  49. syncrodox, I appreciate your response, and believe we agree on the substance of this issue.
    Without more information than I have, I can’t say that the teacher had fair grounds to do what she did, which, I’ve conceded, seems unreasonable. However, I do know that teachers are provoked, daily, beyond all reason, by entitled, posturing, dangerous bullies, who are altogether protected, rather than challenged and stopped.
    When no one–neither the left-wing unions, nor administration (generally, left-wing)–will support the teacher (often left-wing) in a dire situation, it’s not surprising that mistakes will be made.
    Usually, the mistake is that NOTHING AT ALL is done to curb even the most egregiously dangerous student behaviour. How helpful is that?

  50. Lookout, you are preaching to the choir. That is why I suggest “dumping” the kid onto the parents’ laps. Make them get off their @$$es and do some actual parenting. If suspending the kid doesn’t work, tell the social workers there are neglectful parents. Not even the laziest person needs that kind of notoriety.
    Granted there are teachers and administration who couldn’t care less about education but there are also dedicated teachers whose hands are bound by ridiculous rules and regulations. When the teachers really do make the kids work, it’s something else.

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