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www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/a...a94801fac_story.html
Our education system is truly, truly run by the loons.
I took kids on a field trip and one of the boys (this was middle school) had a toy gun for a GI Joe that he kept showing the teacher. I didn't understand why he was doing it and asked my boy, who explained that the teacher was obligated to suspend him for having something that looks like a gun in school. The teacher was wisely ignoring him. But a plastic rifle two inches long was sufficient grounds to send him home for three days. Apparently biting your pop tart into the shape of a pistol counts.
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Christ on a crutch... My tattered copy of SJG's Killer is one of my most treasured possessions. My best moment was managing to get into a friend's locker to leave a "bomb" [note at head height that said "this is an explosive device that triggered when you opened the locker. BOOM."] that actually got both him and another participant in the game who happened to be hanging with him and saw the note when he opened his locker. Another pair had an actual "shootout" in the halls when one pulled one of those little plastic guns that fired tiny rubber balls and misfired. The other guy had a water pistol on him [we allowed water pistols, those little rubber pellet guns, and these things that fired little plastic discs, which were great as they had pretty fantastic range] and started plugging away. Direct fire weapons and "stabbings" [jabbing with a pencil that had the word "knife" written on the side] were verboten in classrooms] were verboten in classrooms, but any between period or non-phys.ed. or band-practice open-air activity was fair game.
I'm guessing if my kid tried to play the game today the way my old crew did back then, she'd actually be arrested and/or put into mandated therapy.
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This system is nuts, the Ontario government is so incompetent that it's incapable of providing basic services.
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Samoko's post fills me with rage. I don't know if I could stay civil if that happened to my kid.
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Black Barney wrote: breakfast pastries are all fun and stuff until someone loses an eye. Those things are lethal.
Samoko's post fills me with rage. I don't know if I could stay civil if that happened to my kid.
Could have been worse. He got a transfer within days due to the intervention of the principal, but it's just how ludicrous the situation is. She lost confidence that the board is incapable of doing anything but maintaining its own bureaucracy at that point, so two years learning elsewhere might be worthwhile.
All you can do as a parent is accept it. Fighting the situation is useless and will only come back at the kid. Eventually something will crack and the system will get back in control, but it will be shit for a while yet.
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Teachers are expected to be police, counselors, nurses, babysitters, detectives, wardens, role-models, and, if they have some spare time, educators, and they're expected to do so with little pay while being called parasites and beingt old they should be happy to buy supplies out of their own pockets because that shows they have passion. If a student goes off the rails or a stranger wanders in with an assault rifle, the first question will be, "what did the school do wrong?" Their only choice is to overreact, and even then they're going to be called out for it, but at least there aren't any bodies at the end of it.
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Legomancer wrote: Really don't want to get into it here, but this is not a case of the school being ridiculous but of the ridiculous burden placed on schools. They are now in a no-win situation where if they do nothing and anything happens they get blamed, and if they do something they get blamed.
If a kid's a nitwit or a miscreant it's clearly the fault of the teachers and schools. Cold day in hell before I take the blame for anything of significance, so it ain't my fault my kid's a delinquent. It must be somebody else's fault. School's fault. They got the kid for 8 hours a day they better make sure he gets raised right. But hear me and hear me well: Don't you dare tell me how to raise my kids! Damn teachers.
Don't even get me started on how it's not my fault when a kid gets hurt or insulted.
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