Prof_Chomsky
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:10 pm
True story. At my son’s old school he got 5 “violence” slips. My son was 6 at the time.
The first was when a teacher witnessed two, far older boys attack him from behind. And rather than run or cower, he got up and pushed one of them on the ground at which time the teacher finally got over there and stopped it. When I was a kid you could have gotten up and beaten both of those kids bloody and the teacher would have said “they deserved it” and the parents would have never even found out. So “Violence Slip” #1 comes home.
The second was for “running on the asphalt”. Apparently they were playing soccer on the grass field and when the ball got away from some kid, my son ran over to where it had landed to grab it and did so “too quickly”. I asked why running on asphalt outside was dangerous, assuming it was crowded or something and they said “when kids move more quickly than a brisk walk on hard surfaces, they risk serious injury”. So “violence slip” #2 comes home.
Number three came when my wife sent our son his snack in a *gasp* non-recyclable Ziploc bag. See, the school has a zero garbage policy, which literally means they just send all the garbage home inside your kids lunchbox so it makes them moldy, or you wind up taking the store bought foods out of their non-recyclable wrappers – which you throw away at home - then put them into Tupperware container to send to school. Then the school can claim they are a “zero garbage” facility. So “violence slip” #3 comes home for my wife’s horrifying Ziploc bag terrorism.
The other two, were no joke “for disrespecting nature”. The first time he caught a grasshopper in a bug cage designed to house grasshoppers without hurting them. The other he snapped off a handful of long grass to feed to a bug he was too afraid to catch, so he thought it would be fun to just feed “in the wild”.
Well, after “violence slip” #5, you have to send your kid to mandatory counseling… which we refused. Then I refused to sign anymore slips or send them back and said if that meant they wouldn’t allow my kid back at school I’d like a meeting with the school board superintendent. All of a sudden the slips didn’t matter and he was back at school, and I found out that 75% of my son’s grade 1 class had over 10 “violence slips” each for the same idiotic reasons. The teacher was accustomed to grade 7 kids, so when she was forced to teach grade 1 she decided being 6 years old amounted to being “violent”. We also found out at the end of the year 75% of her class were a full grade below reading level because she was a terrible horrible teacher.
I love the school system, and the teacher's union. They have managed to taint every other union on earth to the point of extinction. And I'm as pro union as you can get.
*rant complete*
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