So, here I was , all ready to break out my big old "Boo-hoo! Lost is ending!"-slash-"So, I just watch a bit of True Blood" post, when I saw something crazy on the post-Survivor news
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Hey, who doesn't love a good outrage! I knew that a few people on my friends list are also educators, and hoped that they would not also be like, "lol. beatdown!" Thankfully, that has not been the case. I actually have four friends who work in schools, and I was starting to get worried that deep down, all teachers want to beat on their students. I understand that it can be a frustrating, thankless job. But if you go in every day and you have to restrain yourself from literally putting the boots to a kid, maybe teaching is not the thing for you. I know I am too impatient for the job, and that's why I don't do it. But even if I did, by some chance, end up as a teacher, I'd never wake up and think, "Today is a good day to stomp someone." As I said in a comment above, if I'd have seen that same scenario, only it was two adults, I'd still be taken aback. But to have the victim be a kid? That's just ridiculous. And I know it was one of those special schools for "troubled kids", but that is no excuse. I just checked back in on the story, to see if there has been any follow-up, and apparently, the teacher (a two-time Teacher of the Year), claims she was only "trying to get his attention" and that she had "lost her emotion". The story also says that, according to the teacher, she'd just broken up a male-on-female fight and then came into a room where a group of mostly black boys was mocking a new special needs white female student. (I wonder why the story requires so many adjectives in that part. You work in a bad school? Okay. But don't make it look like you're Joe Clark cleaning up the halls of Eastside High, where boys beat on girls and there's all of this racial tension. To me that part just seemed like it was trying to elicit sympathy for a 40-year old woman, with warrants, who beat up a 13-year old kid. She also said that she hoped the "incident" would encourage the child's mother to take a more active role in his life. Thanks for the advice, Teacher of the Year!) To everyone's credit, she has been fired, arrested and sued. And another teacher who was in the room at the time (on probation for marijuana possession. Who is in charge of that school's HR department?) has resigned as well. And yes, Umbridge was way scarier than Voldemort. I may be overlooking someone (I don't think I am), but she may actually be the HP villain that I hate the most. On an unrelated note, I watched one True Blood the other day, and I think I'm going to like it. Of course, the day after I watched that one, my computer died for three days (hence the super-delayed nature of this reply). I plan to pick up again tonight.
I knew that a few people on my friends list are also educators, and hoped that they would not also be like, "lol. beatdown!" Thankfully, that has not been the case.
I actually have four friends who work in schools, and I was starting to get worried that deep down, all teachers want to beat on their students. I understand that it can be a frustrating, thankless job. But if you go in every day and you have to restrain yourself from literally putting the boots to a kid, maybe teaching is not the thing for you. I know I am too impatient for the job, and that's why I don't do it. But even if I did, by some chance, end up as a teacher, I'd never wake up and think, "Today is a good day to stomp someone." As I said in a comment above, if I'd have seen that same scenario, only it was two adults, I'd still be taken aback. But to have the victim be a kid? That's just ridiculous. And I know it was one of those special schools for "troubled kids", but that is no excuse.
I just checked back in on the story, to see if there has been any follow-up, and apparently, the teacher (a two-time Teacher of the Year), claims she was only "trying to get his attention" and that she had "lost her emotion". The story also says that, according to the teacher, she'd just broken up a male-on-female fight and then came into a room where a group of mostly black boys was mocking a new special needs white female student. (I wonder why the story requires so many adjectives in that part. You work in a bad school? Okay. But don't make it look like you're Joe Clark cleaning up the halls of Eastside High, where boys beat on girls and there's all of this racial tension. To me that part just seemed like it was trying to elicit sympathy for a 40-year old woman, with warrants, who beat up a 13-year old kid. She also said that she hoped the "incident" would encourage the child's mother to take a more active role in his life. Thanks for the advice, Teacher of the Year!) To everyone's credit, she has been fired, arrested and sued. And another teacher who was in the room at the time (on probation for marijuana possession. Who is in charge of that school's HR department?) has resigned as well.
And yes, Umbridge was way scarier than Voldemort. I may be overlooking someone (I don't think I am), but she may actually be the HP villain that I hate the most.
On an unrelated note, I watched one True Blood the other day, and I think I'm going to like it. Of course, the day after I watched that one, my computer died for three days (hence the super-delayed nature of this reply). I plan to pick up again tonight.
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