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jaws7777 said:
I wouldn't be ok with someone touching my kids. I guess it's a bit hypocritical. Ugh I hate that
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krichardson said:
I kind of feel the same way.....let me know of any problems and I'll deal with them myself.
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Hello; I was last in a classroom in 2004 so my experiences are dated. It is true that some parents will deal with poor behavior of their children and do it effectively. However not all will and their children become the terrors of a school.
I ran into two former students at the local gym three days ago. I did not recognize them as one is over 40 and the other is around 30. They both work for the state of KY. The younger one was in my regular biology class in 2004. Happens they both work with criminal juvies and take a load of them to the gym twice a week.
One asked my name and we realized how we knew each other. Somehow the bad kid of the 2004 class came up. The paddle and pretty much any other discipline tool was long gone by than. This kid had full grown adult teachers to play with and play he did. Every day class started with disruptions by three students and mostly by him. I had already put enough time in for a pension and was finishing out the year for the regular biology teacher who became too ill to work. (She died soon after.)
Any regular teacher who hoped to keep a job could not throw students out of class but as I was just there for the year I could and did. So nearly every day this kid wasted 10 -15 minutes causing problems until I ask him to leave. One morning he threw a pencil at me and the point stuck in my chest for a moment.
I sent for the resource officer with the intention of filing an assault charge. Long story shorter, neither the school officials nor the parents wanted that and the principal worked on me. As I was to be gone at the end of the term I at least got him out of my class for the rest of the year.
It was pretty typical the last few years of my career in a class of 25 to 30 students that just a few were allowed to disrupt almost every day. Seems the rights of those rowdy kids trumped the rights of the 20 to 25 to have a class where they could get an education. The parents of the rowdy ones not only would not discipline their children but would at times get in my face when all I could do was write up discipline slips.
I did enjoy the few AP Biology classes as those students were there to learn.
 
skjl47 said:
Hello; I was last in a classroom in 2004 so my experiences are dated. It is true that some parents will deal with poor behavior of their children and do it effectively. However not all will and their children become the terrors of a school.
I ran into two former students at the local gym three days ago. I did not recognize them as one is over 40 and the other is around 30. They both work for the state of KY. The younger one was in my regular biology class in 2004. Happens they both work with criminal juvies and take a load of them to the gym twice a week.
One asked my name and we realized how we knew each other. Somehow the bad kid of the 2004 class came up. The paddle and pretty much any other discipline tool was long gone by than. This kid had full grown adult teachers to play with and play he did. Every day class started with disruptions by three students and mostly by him. I had already put enough time in for a pension and was finishing out the year for the regular biology teacher who became too ill to work. (She died soon after.)
Any regular teacher who hoped to keep a job could not throw students out of class but as I was just there for the year I could and did. So nearly every day this kid wasted 10 -15 minutes causing problems until I ask him to leave. One morning he threw a pencil at me and the point stuck in my chest for a moment.
I sent for the resource officer with the intention of filing an assault charge. Long story shorter, neither the school officials nor the parents wanted that and the principal worked on me. As I was to be gone at the end of the term I at least got him out of my class for the rest of the year.
It was pretty typical the last few years of my career in a class of 25 to 30 students that just a few were allowed to disrupt almost every day. Seems the rights of those rowdy kids trumped the rights of the 20 to 25 to have a class where they could get an education. The parents of the rowdy ones not only would not discipline their children but would at times get in my face when all I could do was write up discipline slips.
I did enjoy the few AP Biology classes as those students were there to learn.
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That's a shame man. I bet that's how most of societies monsters start out. Same as that bad kid in your class. Crappy parents and a principal that looks the other way. Smh
 
My wife is a teacher and some of the stuff she tells me that the kids and parents pull and get away with is downright outrageous.
 
to some extent you can not blame the school, there hands are tide. same as those of responsible parents, taking my kid to court for the third time for violating the becca bill tomorrow. can thank Obama for that one. let me knock him on his arse and he will go to school, koombiya aint going to do it.
 
So your not allowed to punish harshly to make him go to school? Not criticizing I'm just curious what you mean
 
Honestly I'm thinking of home schooling mine. They get ****ty social skills at school anyway and I'm tired of reteaching my oldest.
 
PYRU said:
Honestly I'm thinking of home schooling mine. They get ****ty social skills at school anyway and I'm tired of reteaching my oldest.
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For a short time I wanted to do the same. Our neighbors home school there kids and don't get me wrong those kids are sharp but are seriously lacking in the personality Dept. I kind of feel bad for them. Seem always nervous and awkward. What happens when they go out into the workforce
 
jaws7777 said:
For a short time I wanted to do the same. Our neighbors home school there kids and don't get me wrong those kids are sharp but are seriously lacking in the personality Dept. I kind of feel bad for them. Seem always nervous and awkward. What happens when they go out into the workforce
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They could wind up looking like this.
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