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

  2. “I got stabbed by a pencil in grade 4. He was kinda cute, and until then I didn’t think he noticed me.”
    Bluetech, I thought that maybe I knew you, but I stabbed the girl that I liked in grade 1, lol!

  3. Call me crazy, some do, but I think a major point has been missed here.
    What right or level of unmitigated arrogance does a public servant have to make up edicts such as this and then further inform the lowly masses that any transgression of arbitrary unlawful edict has already been predetermined as guilty and sentence passed.
    These folks have been given way toooooo much power by the sheeple. Who the hell do these servants think they are and why does anyone listen to their nonsense, they work for YOU! No wonder students have no respect and drop out, they have idiots trying to dull and regulate the life out of education. Egads.
    YARTS= Yet Another Reason To Home School.

  4. Wendy Scott: The TSA needs you!!
    You’re much too valuable to waste your unreal talents in a classsroom.
    Quit now and save AMERICA!!!

  5. I learned how to shoot in the high school gym. .303 Enfields converted to .22LR
    We had an ex-Navy commodore for a Latin teacher, so there was no talk of suspensions for spitballs. He’d just look at you, and you’d behave.
    The pencil lady here would have had hysterics.

  6. Osumashi K., great idea re the parents, who damn well should be held responsible for the behaviour of their kids. Dream on . . . because parents—and kids—are considered to be clients, and teachers are NOT to rile them—especially if they’re the “rile-able” kind, which far too many are these days.
    The situation reminds me of the universities, which punish the law abiding, peaceful Anne Coulters, Christie Blatchfords, and their audiences, rather than the tyrannical thugs, who oppose them, and are a clear and present danger: teachers who actually DISCIPLINE a wayward student are not supported if the kid and his/her parent(s) complain. The teacher’s always the one in the dock—for provoking more unpleasantness, which administrators want to avoid at all costs. It’s a vicious circle, with the teacher taking all the hits.
    Suspensions? I was recently told by an administrator at an inner city school, that, besides the horrendous amount of paperwork, and the real threat of reprisals, via appeals, he couldn’t suspend half the school, with multiple re-offenders. I guess he has a point—so he doesn’t suspend anyone. (Except for the teachers at that school, suspended from their duties on the basis of lies told by the very kids who should have been suspended in the first place! Vicious circle…)
    So, I agree with Kate: if teachers aren’t crazy when they start their careers, the system’s enough to drive them that way. syncrodox seems to get it!

  7. LOOKOUT
    I will agree with you in so far as I disagree with how this teacher’s superior threw her employee under the bus. Employers need to stand-up for their employees and not deflect blame.
    That said, suspending children for spit-balls is lunacy. A pencil registry is also lunacy. Speaking from personal experience with my own children, the ridicule and criticism of the public school system AND it’s teachers is warranted.

  9. Indiana, I hear you. There are a lot of mediocre to very bad teachers out there. (And I’ve conceded that this teacher’s actions seem dubious, even if the intention was admirable.) But teachers’ working conditions have deteriorated to an alarming degree: while our authority is being steadily eroded by rogue judges, indulgent, immature, aggressive parents, and overpaid, appeaser administrators, we’re dealing with more and more juvenile—some as young as kindergarten-age—thugs, who are a serious danger to anyone in striking distance.
    The combination of too many seriously maladjusted, violence-prone students and teachers stripped of meaningful authority to deal with the situation is a combustible mix.
    As we agree, schools are not what they used to be.

  10. Suspend or expel, lookout.
    That or inform the authorities that there is a neglectful parent out there (it’s true).
    It’s sad that kids are hot potatoes but we can blame this on a system that actually rewards irresponsibility.

  11. The CAS (Children’s Aid Society) is an absolute, left-wing, politically correct disaster. I know of good teachers who’ve reported a student and then been harassed by both the CAS and the parents, with the collusion of the administration, who are more than willing to hang the teacher out to dry. (Help from the left-wing, socialist unions: forget it.)
    It’s just suspend, Osumashi K.: and even that’s rarely done these days. I was talking to a teacher recently, who told me of a dangerous eight year old—yes, 8!—who was actually suspended for three days. The kid’s parents pulled strings and she was back after one day. Expel? Virtually never. And the kid would just be pawned off on another unfortunate school.
    There are no consequences anymore for the most egregious behaviour: the kids know it and the worst act accordingly. You’re right, it’s the adolescent, as in immature and stupid, adults who are allowing this. If one is a real adult in the educational system, there are good things one can do. Then one sees one’s worthwhile contributions being entirely sabotaged.
    A public school teacher’s life these days is dystopian. As a result, the number of medical leaves is astronomical. And, if we’re sane, committed, and hardworking, I think most of us feel a little crazy quite often. The system’s a gulag.
    This shameful state of affairs is more than sad—and we’re all going to reap the whirlwind for such a massive defection of the adults from truth—what’s that?—and responsibility.
    God help us.

  12. Indiana Homez; “…threw her employee under the bus”.
    Hardly. The teacher was WAY out of line in attempting to make policy. At the very least she should have had the courtesy to cc her boss, the Principle. She hung the school Admin out to dry; a wimpy public dressing down hardly covers the damage.
    I’m guessing that she’s under the illusion that she works for her union, not the school board.

  13. Hey. You could probably take over an airliner with a plastic “spork”.
    After the “Joker” (in “Dark Knight”) showed everybody how to kill with a pencil, I can’t believe that they allow these things at an SAT test.

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