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Teacher chops off ears of 17 students in Bangladesh
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Manabanana
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Madrassa. Enough said.
BobbyRobby
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"Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right....."
nitewulf said:
Back before the mid-70's, stuff like getting rapped on the knuckles or backside with a ruler was commonplace in public elementary schools; it was even worse when you got home and realized that the teacher had spoken to your parents.
Unlike today, parents actually took the teacher's side usually, as opposed to reflexively defending their little demon's every deviant action like we have today. Nowadays, you can't even make a kid stand outside in the hall by himself without getting disciplined, if not sued-- it's considered corporal punishment. Yes, really. What a wonderful world. Meanwhile, kids are throwing desks and chairs at teachers and are back in class the next day.
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ha, the first thing I thought of was Reservoir Dogs...*shudder*
I never said you denied it. Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough. I know people who wonder how the Jews could just stand there and wait to be rounded up and slaughtered, putting up little resistance.
Sure, you may outnumber someone, but if you aren't in a position of power (weapons) and authority (rank), your helpless.
Chittagong
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Jim Bowie said:
But... but..
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
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J2 Cool said:
Van Gogh cut his ear off, iirc
Chittagong
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eggplant said:
even better, it was apparently after a good sip of Absinth. must have been one hell of a hangover, that.
Litigation Manuel
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I think if the kids were having to read out loud and in a loud volume, they may have been too young to defend themselves.
PanopticBlue
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Loki said:Back before the mid-70's, stuff like getting rapped on the knuckles or backside with a ruler was commonplace in public elementary schools; it was even worse when you got home and realized that the teacher had spoken to your parents.
Yep, it's disgusting. My wife's an elementary teacher, and the students' behaviour is really bad. They have NO respect at all. The parents defend them too, their precious little demons. It's rediculous. My wife's getting out of teaching, btw. They don't pay nearly enough to have to put up with this bullshit.
I blame the liberals.
PanopticBlue said:
For stuff like this, I find that's always as good a place to start as any.
Conservatives have their own (multifarious) issues, but for stuff like this, it was definitely the "liberal" mindset that started the ball rolling. Obviously, nobody's advocating a kid getting caned or beaten-- but to not be able to discipline a kid by having them stand outside in the hall if they curse you out or spit at you, for instance? Tragically, in an attempt to foster tolerance and nurture our children's sensitivities, we've slid all the way to the other extreme. Who the hell knows what the solution is at this point...
Like so many other things in this country, the big problem is that the pendulum always seems to swing between the two extremes, never coming to rest at a sensible middle ground that would promote the best interests of all parties. All these educrats and lawyers mucking up the system...you have no idea. Like when they supplanted phonics instruction with that purportedly vaunted "whole word" reading, despite the fact that there was absolutely zero empirical evidence that it would work. Apparently, having realized that a lot of kids couldn't read anymore, these braintrusts decided not to address the root causes-- oh no, that would step on people's toes-- but rather implement sweeping systemic reform based on spurious principles. Phonics has worked since the dawn of time, and all of a sudden, because kids can't read, it means that it's the phonetic instructional method that's broken? :lol Sure. That's the level of critical thinking going on in your typical educrat's mind, sadly. Thankfully, someone grabbed these nimrods by the shoulders one day and vigorously shook them so that what little gray matter they had would wrest itself from the walls of their skull, where it was sitting inert, plugging the (numerous) holes in their head. The "whole word reading" method was thus abolished a few years ago.
Sorry for the tangent, but the disservice that's being done to our kids sometimes is just incredible. In case you don't know what "whole word reading" entails, well, it's precisely what it sounds like: reading and recognizing whole words as wholes, as opposed to building upwards from phonetic units to produce known sounds and then stringing them together to sound out words. Guess what happened more often than not when a "whole word reader" encountered a word he or she wasn't familiar with? Exactly: nothing. They were ill-equipped to deal with new words, having never learned the tools of proper language pronunciation; they couldn't verbally construct words from their component sounds. In short, they were functionally illiterate unless they memorized scads of words and could recognize them (and recall their pronunciation) by sight. Very tedious and counterintuitive, to say the least. But one of the reasons it caught on with educrats was because it allowed children who wouldn't be able to read any other way to be able to "keep up", somewhat, with those who could easily master phonics and move on to more advanced material if given the chance. Wouldn't want to offend anyone's sensibilities, you know; we mustn't let any child stand too far above their peers, now. It's not PC.
Everybody has an agenda, and that agenda seldom is "the children".But anyway, sorry for the rant-- my mind just went on a tangent and I felt like finishing it. I'm avoiding studying physics, so that's understandable.
Loki said:But anyway, sorry for the rant-- my mind just went on a tangent and I felt like finishing it. I'm avoiding studying physics, so that's understandable.
Reading stuff like this disturbs me. :lol If I was the only one who studies and browses GAF at the same time... then I could see how much of a lazy bastard I am and maybe go to the library and JUST STUDY for a good several hours. This and the "GAF and your life" thread is scaring the hell out of me. It makes it much easier to procrastinate and waste time here.
Chrono said:Reading stuff like this disturbs me. :lol If I was the only one who studies and browses GAF at the same time... then I could see how much of a lazy bastard I am and maybe go to the library and JUST STUDY for a good several hours. This and the "GAF and your life" thread is scaring the hell out of me. It makes it much easier to procrastinate and waste time here.
Hah- no, you're far from the only one. Hell, if I were to count up all the time I've wasted on GA over the years, we wouldn't be talking hours, we'd likely be talking literal years.
Very sad.
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