while everyone else was watching Lost...

[intertribal]

I was watching the Law & Order series finale.  It was a pretty intense episode, about a blog that posts threats of shooting up a school.  I thought the twist was pretty neat-o for Law & Order, and I was certainly tense at the end.  The NYTimes has a good write-up of it, and I agree that the Department of Ed. and teachers' unions probably won't be

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[royinpink]

Yeah, but even with the thing you linked to, it linked to another article:

"While accounts of teachers attacking students are relatively rare, school violence in general is on the rise. More than 150,000 teachers reported they were attacked by students in the 2007-2008 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics."

Students aren't all like you and me, and there are underlying problems here that teachers really shouldn't be dealing with.

[royinpink]

I have no interest in the Law and Order episode (hate the police, so, you know), and I understand that teachers (nobody, really) are totally innocent. Maybe it's that I'm teaching here and seeing/hearing about things in Bulgaria, but I def. don't have the "Oh, students just want to learn, you must inspire them and show them how reading is really valuable" naive attitude.

[intertribal]

You understand that teachers are totally innocent? Did you mean to put a not in there?

I agree that the whole "students just want to learn, you must inspire them" attitude is ridiculous. I don't know where you think that I said that. I also think that the "teachers love students and would do anything for them" mindset is ridiculous and untrue. There are some bad students and some bad teachers. Any generalization to be made about the education system is probably false.

[royinpink]

Uh, yeah. I got confused when i added 'nobody' i think.

I don't think you said that, although I occasionally get that vibe from you (which could be in my head, I dunno). Anyway, I'm not really disagreeing with you.