Topic : 04/08 Risky Teen Behavior

this mother needs to be taken away from her son.  she needs help herself.  what a joke, this woman is allowed to teach our children.  if she was my child's teacher and i saw this believe me my child would not enter her classroom again.  my husband is a high school teacher and what he sees every day is unbelievable and this just takes the cake.  this is why some people should not be allowed to bare or teach children.  this is a valid reason why tenure should not be around for teachers.  when her superiors see this and she has tenure they can't fire her.  my husband, who is a tenured teacher believes she is one reason why it isn't right.  drugs are drugs whether they be legal or not.  i really thought this show was a joke at first.  not sure i can watch this show anymore

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You are the teacher I want teaching my child. I said the very things you just wrote  on this board out loud to myself as I was watching this show. Lets hope those in her school district saw this today and will terminate her for unethical behavior.

 I fell in with the wrong kids at the age of 12 and smoked pot for two years failed 8th grade I had no one to blame  for my poor choices but myself. When I failed my parents could have cared less so I had to really look at myself  one day and say what do I want for myself,  where do I see myself in a few years.

 I quit that day I I struggled to catch up  in school. I graduate highschool on time and earned a scholarship. This drug reminds me of LSD for the hallucinations and pot which takes away all a persons motivation to do anything but to get highand. Been there done that only I did not have a parent promoting the behavior. This so called mother/ teacher makes me sad and angry that she could inflict such a horrible thing upon her own child.

I usually scream at the television when, after a heinous crime in a community, a news reporter asks a person living in the neighborhood where the crime occurred about their feelings on the crime.  The answer is usually: "You just never think something like this will happen in your neighborhood."  Most people go through life thinking that everyone lives their lives just like them.  They think everyone has the same moral compass and principles as they do.   So, when some abhorrent crime occurs in a house that looks just like theirs, which is occupied by people that look and, on the surface, act just like them, they're shocked.  As a cop for almost 30 years, there's nothing a person, young or old, rich or poor, black or white, can do that can surprise me.  People are capable of doing both stupid and horrific stuff.  All that to say the college educated, teacher mom who purchases and smokes salvia with her failing, faltering son didn't shock me in the least.  Been there, seen that a thousand times before.

Dr Phil has been good about bringing guests on his show that have either a new movie or book on the market.  In light of the fact many of the shows deal with kids, and adults with issues brought with them from childhood, I would enjoy seeing Dr. Phil invite E.D. Hill onto his show.  Ms. Hill, a mother of eight, five of her own and three step children, has a new book out titled, I'm Not Your Friend, I'm Your Parent."  Babies aren't born with a predisposition to grow into dysfunctional adults, that credit is most often attributable to the parents for a myriad of reasons.  Wanting to be a child's friend and not their parent (as we witnessed today) is at the top of the list. 

"To keep your children's feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."

Salvia aside, I see this idiotic  parenting behavior EVERYDAY as a school administrator.    "All he wants to do is play video games..."  WHERE DOES HE GET THE VIDEO GAMES?  WHERE DOES HE GET THE MONEY TO BUY THEM?  If your child is failing school, then his/her world needs to shrink down to the essentials for survival until they start doing their job of getting an education and then earn back their privileges.  

And what about those obviously brain damaged teens who go to the amusement park....QUIT TAKING THEM AND PAYING FOR THEIR ENTRANCE TO THE PARK!!!  

PARENTS - WAKE UP!!!  Quit indulging your out-of-control kids.   So what if they hate you for a couple of years??? At least they will be alive long enough to grow into adulthood and get over it.

The so called mother / teacher and I use those words loosely should be fired from teaching for ethical reasons. There unfortunately are no laws against  for being a dumb parent.

As for the cell phone issue if your kid is sextexting and you still want them to have a cell phone then have the texting and picture taking features removed. The phone should be for emergency contact nothing else hat's not too hard to figure out. Remind them that their future boss might goggle them and they  might not get that job, they may be flushing four years of college down the toilet.

For the  kids that are riding the roller coasters and passing out stop driving them to the amusement park. If they are driving themselves take the dang car away!  If they are eighteen and still choosing to do this kick their but to the curb. If they want to make those decisions then let them live on their own they won't  have much time for roller coasters as they will be to busy trying to pay the rent. This show should have be entitled the dumbing down of America

Foul play was not suspected although an autopsy was scheduled Thursday, the Toronto Sun reported.  

After the discovery, the boy's father, Steve Crisp told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. the clothes police described on the body matched what his son was wearing when he stormed out of the house Thanksgiving Day, Oct. 13.  

Rewards totaling $50,000 had been posted for the boy's return, half of which was from Microsoft, which also was assisting police in tracking the boy's online gaming history and contacts.  

The boy's parents told him on the day he disappeared he could no longer play the interactive X-Box game, "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare," as he was skipping school and getting up in the middle of the night to play, the Toronto Star said.  

I can't believe this woman is a college graduate and actually teaching other peoples children.  Who in there right mind would allow their child to do any sort of drug that would make you hallucinate and fry your brain.  

She should not be teaching other children, she doesn't even have the brains to take care of business at home.  UNFREAKING BELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm so discusted and furious that I can hardly see straight.