classroom discipline

‘I Will Not Defy the DOE’ (100 Times)

leeduigon(patty)August 20, 2025

The U.S. Dept. of Education is trying to get rid of “gender identity” nonsense; and to that end, has threatened to withhold funds from districts where “intimate facilities” are to be shared… (intimately?).

It doesn’t look like some of the local school boards understand this, although we wonder if they share bathrooms at home, or when they got to the Y to do jazzersize.

Maybe some of their own medicine might cure them. Like for instance, writing on the blackboard 100 times:

*I will not thumb my nose at the school board.

*I will not invade the Intimate Facilities of the Opposite Gender, whatever that means.

*I will not ride my bicycle down the hall.

*I will always address others by their preferred pronouns, even when it’s stupid and makes me feel like a moron.

How easy it is, to make this time-honored custom our own! And if writing on the blackboard doesn’t work, there are always 500-word essays and staying after school.

That’s Substitute Teaching?

leeduigon(patty)March 18, 2025

2 boys lying on the ground

School days, school days… I don’t miss ’em

At the YMCA Tiger Academy in Jacksonville, Florida, a school for grades K-3, a substitute teacher faces jail time for her…uh, unorthodox approach to classroom discipline (https://www.desantisdaily.com/a-florida-substitute-teacher-asked-her-students-one-question-that-could-land-her-in-jail/?utm_source=decide&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dsd_21269&utm_term=&utm_content=).

One of the kiddies was misbehaving, so the sub asked the class, “Who in here can beat him up?” Four kids volunteered, and promptly set about beating the tar out of their classmate. The festivities had to be broken up by teachers from adjacent rooms.

I put in many days as a substitute teacher, years ago. I saw a lot of bad behavior, but nothing quite like this. Controlling a classroom could often be a challenge–but heck, that’s what a vice principal is for. One of my schools had a vice principal we called “Luca Brassi,” after a character in The Godfather. He would walk into the room and all misbehavior would stop on a dime. NO ONE wanted to go back to the office with Luca.

But anyhow, that’s public school for you. Where they get some of these teachers from, who knows? Tiger Academy officials say their substitute teachers get “a thorough background check” before being hired.

It only hurts when I laugh.

How Our Leaders Sabotage Racial Harmony

leeduigon(patty)November 4, 2015

If you’re looking for order and peace, don’t look in a public school classroom.

By now you’ve probably heard all about this incident. Girl won’t stop yakking on her cell phone in the classroom; teacher can’t stop her; principal’s office can’t stop her. So they call a cop, she attacks the cop, he has to use force to stop her, and–presto!–another Racial Incident.

The cop is being pilloried as a racist bully. There also seems to be a sense that he simply materialized there, like a genie from a bottle, just to pick on this poor innocent girl. They’ve forgotten how he’d come to be there in the first place. Like, um, the school called him because they couldn’t stop this kid from disrupting the class.

Maybe I’m showing my age, but in all the thousands of days I spent in school, not once did a police officer ever have to be called in to restore order. Not once.

Hey, everybody–have we all forgotten how Eric “the Bagman” Holder, when he was attorney general, made it very clear to school districts nationwide that the federal government wanted them to ease up on discipline–especially as applied to black kids who act up in class? ( http://www.gopusa.com/news/2014/01/09/doj-tells-schools-to-ease-up-on-discipline-especially-for-black-students/ )

Could it possibly be that such absurd policies, once they get to be widely known, actually encourage black kids to run wild in school? Could it be that our beloved rulers, by meddling and shooting off their mouths, have made a problem worse instead of better?

What was so terrible about having schools that did not require the frequent attentions of police officers?

I guess this is what a progressive calls progress.