Yet Another Reason To Homeschool!
I know some of you are just tired about my homeschool rants here but...here...we...go...again!
I spoke to a friend of mine last night. We'll call him D for this story. D was having a panic attack. D was becoming hysterical. D wanted to crawl in a hole and disappear.
D has a degree in counseling but couldn't get a job within his degree(as usual). So he applied for teaching positions and during the summer took courses so he could be certified as a teacher. Really good idea...in theory. When I was getting my secondary education degree, we had to take courses during my senior year to prepare us for the classroom. We even did an internship in that same year to prepare us for the little urchins. D wasn't so lucky.
He had a Freshman English teaching position at an Irving,Texas high school(you know, home of the Dallas Cowboys). This was his first full week of school.
His class is filled with kids that cannot read, kids that don't speak English, head bangers(his words not mine) and 19 yr old 'Freshman"(he has 4) and generally kids that have no intention of passing and don't really care if they do.
On the 2nd day, D found one of his students sleeping. He told him to sit up several times and the last time he did, the student shot him the 'bird'. D went up to the student and asked for his papered school ID. The student refused. D demanded it. The student took it but held over his own head and back away from D so that he couldn't take it, " I wouldn't do that if I were you."
D finally snatched it and began walking back to his desk while telling the student to get his things because he was sending him to the principal's office. The student replied, "F**k you m***erf**ker, I'm going to cap your **s!"
THE 14-YR-OLD KID THREATENED TO SHOOT HIM!
What was the school's stance since Texas has this zero tolerance policy?
20 days at an alternative school and he'll be returned!
D's superior was pretty nonplussed about the threat of bodily harm. D's mentor assured him that it couldn't happen there. There are no metal detectors in this school. What's going to stop this kid from walking in with a gun?!
Now my friend is having major anxiety attacks to the point that he is on medication.
And to think this was just the 2nd day....just think what the rest of the school year is going to be like.
Just another notch in the belt of the pro-homeschool side. And my kids get in trouble for not saying "Yes Ma'am" and "No Ma'am".
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