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December 5, 2008, 4:03 pm PST
12/05 School Discipline: Out of Control?
Quote From: davewriterThe biggest thing we learned for every actions there is a reaction and we didn't want the reaction. When I was in twelve grade someone threw freshly chewed gum in my hair and I was so mad all I saw was red. I took it out my head and started to throw it back. Guess who got in trouble? ME.
She called me up and put on the stage (it was in speech class0 took her paddle out and whipped in front of the entier class. I didn't feel it because I had so many slips on but it taught me a lesson and what do you think it was? Two wrongs never make a right or for action there is a reaction I never forgot that and that is the way I have lived.
Okay, you got paddled in your senior year of high school for throwing gum? Twelfth grade? LMAO. Not to criticize you like this, but did it ever occur to you to maybe scan for the perp from your desk, then RAISE YOUR HAND and INFORM THE TEACHER? Or else wait until the teacher was through lecturing, then go up to her, show her the gum and tell her that somebody threw it at you. Maybe then, you wouldve been spared the rod so to speak.
I may not be as old as you, but thats the approach I wouldve taken if that had happened to me in twelfth grade, but then again, Ive never had that happen to me, as I remember, and Ive been bullied in middle school quite a bit. Maybe Think before you act should be on that list of lessons. There is hardly any respect with a vast majority of todays kids. I work in a middle school where I hear the adults being called every name in the book, but if you tell them to have a seat and "shut up" your job is on the line and their parent is on the phone with the superintendant. If more parents today were real parents and gave consequences at home thing s might not seem to redundant. You can only give a kid so many detentions, suspensions, and phone calls home. Support from home is what we need. And lots of it.
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