Monday Night with a Teacher

[cycloner29]

Here we go again!

Police say social media threats toward Southeast Polk schools not credible

Police have beefed up their presence at the Southeast Polk school campus in Pleasant Hill. It's due to alleged reports of social media threats at the high school and junior high.

www.kcci.com

 

[VeloClone]

Here we go again!

Police say social media threats toward Southeast Polk schools not credible

Police have beefed up their presence at the Southeast Polk school campus in Pleasant Hill. It's due to alleged reports of social media threats at the high school and junior high.

www.kcci.com

Yeah, we received a text Saturday that a "snapchat message under investigation." The next day "Law enforcement resolves school safety issue, shares on concerns about safe opening of schools Monday."

At first I was like, "Wut?" but in the end I am kind of glad that we don't get all the details. Let's not give the idiots all the publicity they want and encourage copy cats.

 

[ruxCYtable]

Like I said, I was half-joking about the beating thing.

I doubt if kids are actually worse than they used to be. They're given more leeway and they take it all and then some. Give an inch...

 

[cycloner29]

Yeah, we received a text Saturday that a "snapchat message under investigation." The next day "Law enforcement resolves school safety issue, shares on concerns about safe opening of schools Monday."

At first I was like, "Wut?" but in the end I am kind of glad that we don't get all the details. Let's not give the idiots all the publicity they want and encourage copy cats.

My mom always told me that I better never get my name in the paper as it would make them look bad. These days I wish they would put the parents' names out there instead of the kids. These parents need to be held accountable!!

 

[JM4CY]

My mom always told me that I better never get my name in the paper as it would make them look bad. These days I wish they would put the parents' names out there instead of the kids. These parents need to be held accountable!!

I agree. But without knowing more details it's hard to get behind that entirely. Also, in some scenarios that could backfire because you get an Attention Wh*re of a parent and are just fanning that flame. Kind of like a Lavar Ball kind of situation. Parents are often idiots.

 

[BCClone]

My mom always told me that I better never get my name in the paper as it would make them look bad. These days I wish they would put the parents' names out there instead of the kids. These parents need to be held accountable!!

Some would be happy if their name was listed. Any attention is good attention in their eyes.

 

[cycloner29]

I agree. But without knowing more details it's hard to get behind that entirely. Also, in some scenarios that could backfire because you get an Attention Wh*re of a parent and are just fanning that flame. Kind of like a Lavar Ball kind of situation. Parents are often idiots.

We all know how his shoes turned out!

 

[JM4CY]

We all know how his shoes turned out!

Oh god....

 

[jcyclonee]

Okay that’s pretty funny if they came up with it themselves.

It also happened at my wife's middle school. They didn't come up with it themselves.

 

[jcyclonee]

Thought this was the start of Dear Penthouse.

As you probably know, Monday nights with a teacher (when you are married) are far from Penthouse Forum material.

 

[jcyclonee]

My bad. Would of gotten the ruler for that.

You would have also received the ruler for terrible sentence structure (twice) and using the "word" "gotten".

 

[Drew0311]

Totally could not wait to see how hot the teacher was that hooked up with the student when I saw this thread. Then I found out its about kids negotiating with their parents. Ugh

 

[NickTheGreat]

This latest generation sucks.

Signed,
The Previous Generation

 

[cycub51]

It also happened at my wife's middle school. They didn't come up with it themselves.

when I was in middle school 20 years ago we often had our locker room for wrestling in the girls locker room. I got a bloody nose during a match and we wiped it on a female pad and left it on a bench. Funniest thing to a middle school boy ever. Poor janitor looking back

 

[cycloner29]

Yet another incident this times at Ames high yet again. Another fight at the high school.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Yet another incident this times at Ames high yet again. Another fight at the high school.
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Any idea in what the battle lines were?

 

[isufbcurt]

I'm in education--the word 'no' gets some sideways looks sometimes.

I work in one spot in which I get a lot of comments like 'Oh those are good kids' and I won't get into what that's based on, but they're the worst behaved by far. They're told they're good and everything's great all the time so ignoring adults and talking back gets a pass.

It's a societal issue imo which trickles down to kids. We've trained ourselves that we have to do and see everything, and everyone needs to be really impressed by it and if they're not, it's a really bad day.

As the great John Skladany (former ISU LB coach and DC) once said "Don't take NO for an answer!"

 

[CyState85]

Our exposure to what happens in school has changed so much in the last 10 years, not necessarily the things that do happen in school. Kids have always done stupid stuff, it’s just more public information than it used to be. Ten years ago, kids would be suspended, return 3 days later and by then, it had blown over.

 

[cycloner29]

Any idea in what the battle lines were?

No idea. Heard the principal got punched a couple of weeks ago. The Ames School District is a complete CF right now.

 

[SEIOWA CLONE]

Like I said, I was half-joking about the beating thing.

I doubt if kids are actually worse than they used to be. They're given more leeway and they take it all and then some. Give an inch...

No, its much worse now than when I started teaching 33 years ago. When my wife and I attended the small rural district that I am now teaching in the ratio of good kids to trouble makers was about 8 to 1, now its 1 to 1. In my small graduating class of 34, 32 of us went home to our biological parents, the other two, one of the moms had passed away from cancer and the other couple divorced. Today less than half the kids I teach daily live with both their parents.
40 years ago we grew up with stay at home moms, today its rare.

The worst thing you do ever do to me as a student was call me parents, not today. Today, parents will come in, saying that their kids did nothing wrong, and it was the teacher that caused the whole mess. Now its not all the parents, there are still some trying their hardest to make their kid behave, buts its way to many. I would say 30% of my time in some classes is dealing with kids that do not care about what I am teaching, and do not want to learn it. They all just want to get out and go to work, hell today I had a student tell the class that it was silly to learn science and English, he was going to drive a gravel truck and would use neither for his job.