[Rhodes22-list] Public Education - Yeah, it's POLITICAL

[Brad Haslett]

Here's a wonderful idea but four decades too late.  I set the
benchmark for "lazy student" but with this policy in place like this I
could have really gamed the system.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08266/914029-298.stm

Brad

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> See Slim, there ARE things we can agree with.
>
> I'm sick and tired of school officials who don't want to work. ANYONE
> can take a set of rules, and blindly enforce them. It takes some skill,
> and a caring attitude, to actually deal with children (and yes, that
> includes 17 and 18 year olds).
>
> When my youngest was 8 (she's 24 now), she invited me to her school for
> lunch. I played hooky from work and joined her. She and I had already
> gotten our trays and were sitting in the cafeteria talking, when I heard
> a teacher tell one of the other groups "No talking in line!!!!" She then
> went back to discussing whatever it was she was discussing with her
> friend another teacher.
>
> I wanted to:
> 1) Tell her that if she could talk to her friend, then surely the
> children she's being paid to work with should be able to talk to theirs
> 2) Ask her if she stood silently in line when she went out to eat on
> weekends at Luby's
> 3) Bitchslap her
>
> Of course, my daughter was watching (and learning), so I couldn't do any
> of those; however, I DID go speak with the principal and told him that I
> felt that overly restrictive rules like that were not in the best
> interests of the child, that socializing with others is an important
> part of development. He said they had restrictions to "maintain order."
> We agreed to disagree, and Katie moved to a private school.
>
> When rules are created for the convenience of the paid educators, rather
> than for the betterment of the child, or out of necessity, then it's
> administrators being lazy.
>
> Sorry if I offend anyone on this, but there are too many professional
> educators out there that fit that category.
>
>
> Steven Alm wrote:
>> Herb,
>>
>> We had a high school senior up here just last week that was caught with a
>> box-cutter in his car in the school parking lot.  The lot was being checked
>> for parking stickers when it was spotted in plain view in the cup holder.
>> OK, now the kid had an after-school job at Cub Foods doing, guess what,
>> cutting boxes but the school has, as most, a zero tolerance for anything
>> pointy on school grounds and he was suspended and threatened with
>> expulsion.  The school board said it would be unfair to other students to
>> NOT expell him.  After a week of wrangling and heated discussion the board
>> decided to let him stay in school but with a heafty probation.
>> Administration on steroids.
>>
>> Slim
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Watch this:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqJfqyzfCPg
>>>
>>> They had these kids ARRESTED!!!! Watch the dour faced "educator" hold
>>> her face squarely serious as she talks about "disrupting an educational
>>> environment".
>>>
>>> I want to one of the asshats look squarely at the camera, and say that
>>> when they had these students arrested, they were acting in the best
>>> interests of the kids they teach.
>>>
>>> Yeah, right.
>>>
>>> Ever wonder what some of us are so dead set against these bureaucratic
>>> morons?
>>>
>>> I once drove my motorcycle through my college's library, LONG before
>>> D-Day rode his up the stairs on Delta House. Guess I was just lucky that
>>> 1) It was a private school more interested in people than the importance
>>> of their jobs and 2) I was smart/desperate enough that I didn't slow
>>> down until I was 20 miles down I-35.
>>>
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