[Rhodes22-list] Oh My God!

[Herb Parsons]

Isn't it amazing how much educators have turned over discipline to 
"professionals" so they can "concentrate on educating"; yet the overall 
education level is declining?

Brad Haslett wrote:
> Herb,
>
> It all reminds me of an incident that happened about two weeks ago
> (and a similar incident 2 decades ago when my older boys were
> youngsters).  One of Fan's friends, a Filipino lady who husband was
> making rounds as Doc on a Saturday morning, made the mistake of
> leaving her five year-old with me for the morning so they could go
> shopping.  I couldn't wait for their car to hit the end of the
> driveway.  When they returned, Momma Filipino asked me how "little
> shithead" and I got along.  "Oh, just fine, he's a sweet kid".  I'm
> assuming he was still too scared to tell mom how I picked him up by
> his britches (therefore scrunching what little nuts he had) to have a
> 'mano-a-mano' talk at eye level.  These gutless wonders who call cops
> for silly shit they should handle real time not only amaze me, but
> piss me off.
>
> And you wonder why people work two jobs to send their kids to a
> private school where they can be kicked out in a heartbeat?
>
> Brad
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
>   
>> I read that one too, and was all prepared to be outraged as well;
>> however, I think this is a case of creating "attention grabbing
>> headlines". I suspect that the kid turning off the computers of those
>> around him during the computer class was the real disruption that got
>> him in trouble. If you isolate the two, it makes it pretty apparent.
>>
>> If he was ONLY turning off computers during computer class, would he
>> have been disciplined - most likely
>> If he was ONLY "passing wind" during class, would have been disciplined
>> - probably not
>>
>> If the last one was the case though, THEN it would have made for a
>> really interesting story. Right up there with the ones about 5 year olds
>> being disciplined for "sexual harrassment" for kissing girls.
>>
>> Now THAT was an art form when I was a kid :)
>>
>> Brad Haslett wrote:
>>     
>>> Good thing they finally busted this kid.  Imagine, if you let this
>>> kind of thing go on he'd eventually end of Governor of some state
>>> ignoring the slaughter of Thanksgiving turkeys. In my family, "passing
>>> gas" was considered an art form and I've always been a competitive
>>> person.  Thank goodness my school teachers had a sense of humor - at
>>> least I'd like to think they did.
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>
>>> http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1121083gas1.html
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