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This kid deserves the electric chair

#41
two fingers said:
+4.7 gagillion bazzillion

Beautifully stated. People like that don't put themselves in office/employment. They are either hired or voted in by throngs/committees of PC idiots. There are literally millions of blithering idiot dipsticks in this country. In fact, they are pretty much taking over. Santa Clause is being protested in a mall near here. I'm sure Cupid's head will be on the chopping block soon enough. Forget cancer. Cure stupid.
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Most teachers seem to go for Macs. Maybe that's a result of PC idiots.
 
#43
burk48237 said:
I have a feeling if more teachers spent a year working in their fields of expertise in the private sector instead of in "education school" before they taught, our kids would benefit greatly.
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I used to think just that for years after moving from the private sector into teaching. Because my own experience was useful to me, I thought that it should maybe be a requirement for everyone. I now know that that is simply wrong.

I have seen some very good and some very bad teachers with private sector experience, and I have seen some very good and some very bad teachers without private sector experience. In other words, there is no correlation between private sector experience and quality of teaching.
 
#44
Mysterion said:
Did anyone actually read the article at all critically?

Like most of these "kid subjected to intolerable intolerance" articles, there's no comment from the school board, or anyone at the school. Really, it's just a glorified, one-sided blog post based on complaints from a disgruntled parent. It may have merit, and it may not.

The child has been suspended before for behavioral issues--perhaps this incident is part of a larger pattern of disruption.

How many posters would be equally inflamed if the kid stayed in school, and this 'story' was spun differently?

"Precious snowflake tot encouraged making advances on little girl. School board afraid to act for fear of parental backlash. "

Again, the parent may have a legitimate grievance. Or not. One can't really tell from this story--maybe it's best not to form a hard-and-fast opinion?

Man, I miss context.
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Mysterion I tried 2 or 3 times to post this, but I keep getting sidetracked by work :p

Also, the boy's mom is the only one who is saying "the girl was OK with it." With what little information the article provides, it looks like the mother is more interested in her child being viewed as her special little man than in disciplining him.

Still, she may have a legitimate grievance. Or not. One can't really tell from this story :D
 
#45
Bob Lee (QSC) said:
Most teachers seem to go for Macs. Maybe that's a result of PC idiots.
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Its funny, the paradigm of Mac/PC in schools seems to have shifted. For a while Apple pushed hard in the elementary and HS education world while PC's dominated the business world and in higher ed.

When I stared working for a University, about 90% of faculty and students used 'PC' platform computers. In fact, I bought a PC laptop to be able to 'interface' better with faculty when I went back to school, since they seemed to have trouble with basics like file extensions and crap.

Nowadays, its just the opposite. I can walk through a sea of laptop using students in the main student center and rarely see a PC.
 
#47
Mysterion said:
Did anyone actually read the article at all critically?

Like most of these "kid subjected to intolerable intolerance" articles, there's no comment from the school board, or anyone at the school. Really, it's just a glorified, one-sided blog post based on complaints from a disgruntled parent. It may have merit, and it may not.

The child has been suspended before for behavioral issues--perhaps this incident is part of a larger pattern of disruption.

How many posters would be equally inflamed if the kid stayed in school, and this 'story' was spun differently?

"Precious snowflake tot encouraged making advances on little girl. School board afraid to act for fear of parental backlash. "

Again, the parent may have a legitimate grievance. Or not. One can't really tell from this story--maybe it's best not to form a hard-and-fast opinion?

Man, I miss context.
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+1, seriously. This is a Yahoo (red flag #1) blog entitled "The Sideshow" (#2).

Rabble rabble rabble!
 
#50
One Drop said:
How this can be spun into a political thread (implied, as if that makes it less idiotic) is as dumb as the decision made by the idiot principal.

What colossal stupidity, especially when you consider that this person is in charge if the future of so many kids.
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Because nothing like this happened when I kissed Diane N. in Kindergarten, and wouldn't have happened. Even if there had been an issue with it, it would have been resolved by my teacher.
 
#51
Mysterion said:
Did anyone actually read the article at all critically?

Like most of these "kid subjected to intolerable intolerance" articles, there's no comment from the school board, or anyone at the school. Really, it's just a glorified, one-sided blog post based on complaints from a disgruntled parent. It may have merit, and it may not.

The child has been suspended before for behavioral issues--perhaps this incident is part of a larger pattern of disruption.

How many posters would be equally inflamed if the kid stayed in school, and this 'story' was spun differently?

"Precious snowflake tot encouraged making advances on little girl. School board afraid to act for fear of parental backlash. "

Again, the parent may have a legitimate grievance. Or not. One can't really tell from this story--maybe it's best not to form a hard-and-fast opinion?

Man, I miss context.
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Hey, hey now! Don't you be bringing critical thinking, even-handedness, and skepticism into this discussion! This is a thread with a reference to an article about how a child was severely disciplined for what should be seen as a minor infraction. The only acceptable responses in this thread should be emotional knee-jerk reaction, bashing teachers and administrators, armchair conjecture about the collegiate experience of educators, and generalizing from a single case to a nation of schools about how PCness is ruining our educational system. And it's only a matter of time before someone comes on and laments how everybody gets a trophy nowadays.
 
#52
Kids kissing other kids?! Sexual deviants, the lot of you!

I recall being 5 years old and receiving a kiss on the cheek from one Paige Louie.
I remember telling my mother and then getting embarassed when she pointed out I liked an asian girl, to which I replied she was not asian. She was half Japanese, with a mother from Hawaii.
Later on, in the 4th grade, while talking to another boy about girls we thought were cute I used the aforementioned kiss as bragging rights. He didnt believe me.

What were we rabbling about again?
 
#56
Yeah, we've gone a little overboard to discourage kids from invading each other's space.

But that's where we are as a society (here in the USA). So many people getting so twisted over typical kid behavior, that we have to indoctrinate little boys on how inappropriate it is to kiss a girl's hand against her wishes.

Still, it is a natural extension of the "keep your hands and feet and all body parts to yourself" behavioral norm we are trying to teach our young in the public schools. And the schools have been pressured into this mentality and course of action.

In short: This mentality was forced on school systems--from the outside in.
 

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