The saga of the wooden San Jose Schools BATHROOM PASS continues

Have the teacher example dat ass every time it comes back, and if there are any letters missing, apply the board of education to the seat of wisdom.

- . Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus

Stormin Mormon wrote, on Mon, 27 Oct 2014 03:05:09 -0400:

It's funny, but, apparently the teacher didn't want to tell me that the spray-painted letters didn't last a week at the school.

She thought I would be upset.

I took it as a challenge, to see if I could keep a bunch of high-school hoodlums at bay. You can't defeat them, but, you can make it hard for them.

So, with the letters now deeply routered (is that a verb?), and the knife marks in the back sanded out, and the back painted black so that the gang graffiti is covered, I think I just made it a bit harder for them to vandalize it.

Of course, the teacher told me they unscrewed her desk and hid it two classes down the hall, so, they're formidable opponents.

But, they are kids, after all, and so, I hope that by the end of the year, I'll have a system (titanium perhaps?) that they can't deface!

:)

Oddly enough, I agree with the Storming guy this time. A school is supposed to teach children so they become responsible adults. It's not an assault class where the medal goes to the one that breaks the most "laws". New pass. Anyone altering it in even the tiniest way gets punished. No exceptions. []'s

Ideally, the kids are supposed to be learning obedience to law, and some other things like that. If they are defacing the potty pass, maybe they can hold it till class is over? Are these illegal non citizens who started their visit to our country by violating the border laws?

I'm not encouraged when our border agencies permit such incredible disrespect for law.

- . Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus

Sigh. Your reputation is forever destroyed, having agreed with a religious whack job right winger dinger. You'd better vote twice in the election, to begin to repair the damage.

Resurrect Reagan!

- . Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus

Stormin Mormon wrote in news:vyq3w.468120$ snipped-for-privacy@fx21.iad:

To be good little sheeple?

Catholic schools are good at that. Leads to medical problems later in life.

Bill wrote, on Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:37:49 -0400:

One teacher in this San Jose school district,uses a toilet plunger, for the same effect.

OMG, what have I done .... []'s

Bill wrote, on Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:21:04 -0400:

I fully expect the students to deface this new paddle. But, short of making it out of titanium, I wasn't sure how to proceed. It's kind of like a game of whack-a-mole.

-------------------------------------------------- A piece of 3/8" steel plate and a welder to form the welded characters from puddled welding rod.

Lew

Lew Hodgett wrote, on Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:50:36 -0700:

Then it's a weapon! :)

I agree there is foolishness in this thread, BUT the foolishness is not that the discussion is taking place, but that the teacher must revert to such things to keeps some sort of order in the class room. Where are the parents supporting the teacher to keep these little criminals from disrupting the class room.

Oh I forgot they were brought up to have self esteem not be to be good citizen, and respect the people who are trying to help them learn

I fully agree, and until the parents talk, or are forced to talk the responsibility for the children they bring into the world the kid problems will only get worse.

That's only half of the saying we were taught in college. It was called the "Engineer's Creed: The engineer designs the best possible product, on the specified schedule, at the lowest possible cost but..."

When I was in school, the father of family with the most screwed up kids (one committed suicide, IIRC) was a child psychologist. The goofy bastard tried to run me over once.

Hey, you can't fault him for that. I'd have tried to run you over too. :)

You do act a lot like a child psychologist nutter. I bet your kids are some messed up, too.

It was a joke. Miserable sense of humour you have.

Raising kids is certainly different but the children themselves aren't. When I see kids running around a restaurant cutting up (putting the condiment containers in their mouth, and worse), that's all on the parents. "Society" has nothing to do with it.

Well, so to speak. ;-) ...but, yes, you're absolutely correct, here. You have the left, who think this a marvy idea. Children aren't allowed to be innocent, anymore.

My knee jerk reaction to the original posting in this thread was not "What's wrong with these kids?", but rather, "What's wrong with this teacher?"

To me, the whole idea of using some (any) ginormous item as a hall pass is stupid, demeaning, and completely counterproductive... not to mention, an exercise in futility. What does this really accomplish?

The good old days were certainly different, but they weren't necessarily always that good. Still, if this is how our educators are now treating our kids, what should we expect from the kids?

Danny's willingness and efforts to help this teacher are admirable, but I'm afraid she needs a kind of help that can't be found in a wood shop. Clearly she is in the wrong profession, and a big chunk of wood is not going to change that. Foolishness, yes. But it makes me a little sad for the kids.