Fact is, unruly kids date way back. My step-mother was a teacher before going to Japan, and she had unruly kids in a class she was subbing. One started to climb up the radiator pipes by the window while her back was turned to the chalkboard. When she turned around and queried as to what he was doing, he refused to reply. She told him to get back in his seat and his reply was, MAKE ME!
Well, she walked over there and grabbed him by his ear and tweaked it, pulling him down and pulling him by his ear all the way to his seat. You got to know that she was a very small woman to appreciate the gutsy act she demonstrated to the class by taking this guy on. Now, this was in 1954. You can't touch students now. In jr hi kids who were really out of hand and refused to comply with class rules with mild discipline had to go to the principle's office and he used a paddle on their backsides if an agreement and understanding couldn't sink into the thick skulls of some of those of my classmates. This was in San Antonio. My second time there, back in '57. Time out??? Are you serious??? It's worse now. My ex g/f subbed before she aquired her present position and they had to call in the "resident cop" on the first graders for fighting in the classroom - never mind their foul language. The other deplorable part of this is that the public workers' unions have so much power that even the governor - not that he is much of one - in Calif. told the legislators, in a somewhat sardonic manner, why are you asking me - go to the unions responsible for your election. That's not a quote, but the general idea... That was because of his attempt to place a freeze on all public employee salary increases to balance the budget. I am sure you have heard about the exhorbitant salaries of cops? Like, over $120,000 in (I think) SanDiego? Cops here may make $32,000; teachers, around the same, and they get three months off besides. Stanley ________________________________ From: MOPARJOE <[email protected]> To: Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers! <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, August 22, 2010 3:32:01 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: I have to go.. Sorry to see you won't be on here much; hope all goes well. I'd still like to talk to you about your Mopar stuff. As for the school system "talk".... I believe public schools have their place in a childs life and development (both in education, as well as personality). I also believe the schools are almost crippled with rules, and unruly kids, which makes it next to impossible to do much teaching. We have a good family friend who is one of the life long educators/ teacher. She is one of the nicest people I know (too nice). She spends 1/2 her time trying to teach, and the other 1/2 trying to control the animals (I have seen this first hand). Good luck Kim!! Mopar Joe On Aug 20, 11:13 pm, Kim Paddock <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm home schooling this year and I wanted to let the group know that I won't be > in forum much this winter. I'll check back from time to time and you guys can > e-mail me or see me on Facebook under Kim Paddock. This is a great forum and >the > nicest people do ride a Honda! Hotrodmamma. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
