Alligatorjandro
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Teachers give Texas middle school student "ghetto classroom award"
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Corronchilejano
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Jesus Christ
freeofgreed
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Yeah because an 8th grade special needs student being ridiculed by his teacher is clearly someone just looking for attention.
Thunder Monkey
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Up against awards for best student, most studious, best singer, best artist, etc.
Voted on by the students of the graduating eighth grade class.
Which is why most of my involvement with my class was sleeping, and telling them "You want the float done? Do it yourself assholes."
edit: Then again this was a school whose guidance counselor told me and I quote "Some people are meant for manual labor, and you, Tyrone are one of them. I don't even think you could get into college, and you definitely won't be graduating with your class. It's impossible for you to maintain the 3.0 necessary, and the class load to do it." So I had no free period my senior year, took an extra course the summer before, and had a 3.8 GPA.
Just because I didn't want to, didn't mean I couldn't.
Thunder Monkey
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My high school experiences were filled with disillusionment, bullying, inappropriate contact from a male teacher, and general all around apathy.
I enjoyed college quite a bit. Enough so that the minute I finished one degree, I signed up for another. High school was a sack of crap though. Didn't like them, they didn't like me. So I stuck to my close circle and videogames through most of it.
I enjoyed college quite a bit. Enough so that the minute I finished one degree, I signed up for another. High school was a sack of crap though. Didn't like them, they didn't like me. So I stuck to my close circle and videogames through most of it.
KidGalactus
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Fenderputty
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It blows me away that people developing our youth could be so unsupportive and defamatory towards their pupils.
Grats to you Monkey, and hopefully this kid pulls through as well.
Grats to you Monkey, and hopefully this kid pulls through as well.
Wow, that is a really really really dumb idea.
excelsiorlef
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So I was reading elsewhere that the teacher was new to that school and had been running the awards at their old school hence why the Principal didn't know. Dunno if that's true but s'what I heard
Goro Majima
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Sulpher Springs is in East Texas which is basically an extension of Arkansas so....not exactly the most enlightened part of the state.
Derekloffin
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I vote brain damage... okay, I'm just trying to be hopelessly optimistic. My faith in humanity is already below zero.
Thunder Monkey
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I was an angry kid, dealing with a bunch of stuff that no one had a clue about. Being pointed at for qualities that I had issues with in the first place. So of course I lashed out.
In my case the categories and recipients were decided on by my own classmates. I wasn't there for that day. If I had been I would have told them they were making fucked up categories that no one would have appreciated receiving. But hazing was still a thing for three years after that moment, ending when one of the senior jocks convinced his "friend" (a special ed student they accepted into the clique for purposes of bullying and culpability) to tape a freshmen girl to a telephone pole and remove her clothes. I never heard if it went further then that, and didn't ask her.
It never went anywhere because the jocks grandmother was a county judge. Small town politics. Most of it kept completely internal because if the truth came out, mass arrests would have taken place, and this small town of Caldwell would be "sullied".
So the victims are sluts or homos, and the abusers get away, no marks on their record.
Firelord Chargrilled
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Now if you could photoshop the "IT'S GOOD" Bugs animation from Georgia into that...
Thunder Monkey
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I've been kind of hijacking the thread, but let me say, never think you're going to find peace and safety in a small town. What you're actually going to find is the same depravity as anywhere else, with an extremely insular society more likely to cover it up, especially when involving the gilded few.
Of course someone decided to pick on these kids, the ones least able to defend themselves and that most people try and ignore anyways. There is just no excuse for this sort of behavior. One of the teachers involved also being a pastor is just great because hey even more access to children who look up to you as an important authority figure is just what that man needs.
kamineko
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And to think I was going to say something along the lines of "Texas, LOL"
Sasha isn't ratchet!
Seems like the guidance was effective then.
Thunder Monkey
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That's what I thought well after the fact. That he knew the only time I'd excel was out of spite. Then my grandmother married his uncle... and he was unkind on more than one occasion. I'll give him credit in one regard, when my brother came out, he was one of the more understanding male teachers at that school.
I just figured he didn't like underachievers with moderate potential that practically went out of their way to limit themselves. Of which I am definitely such a person. Regrettably. I sounded more pissed now about that prior encounter than I actually am. Thinking about it as I did then. The angry kid. Intentionally failing classes I could have passed.
Just... not doing myself any favors. But I was dealing with some heady stuff that I wasn't letting anyone in on back then.
Way back in a year I don't want to admit that would age me, I was asked by a high school teacher "why are you so ghetto when you're half white?". I was too young and dumb to get offended, but looking back it was a terrible thing to say to a child.
And it was funny because 75% of my friends were white, I spent most of my time surfing and doing other traditionally "white" or "asian" things. I just liked hip hop and wore baggy clothes. Hell I didn't even act up in class, I was a model student.
Edit: oh and I played J.V. basketball. In my area that seemed to scream "black" to teachers. Even though half the teams were hispanic, white, or asian.
And it was funny because 75% of my friends were white, I spent most of my time surfing and doing other traditionally "white" or "asian" things. I just liked hip hop and wore baggy clothes. Hell I didn't even act up in class, I was a model student.
Edit: oh and I played J.V. basketball. In my area that seemed to scream "black" to teachers. Even though half the teams were hispanic, white, or asian.
Evolved1
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This was a really dumb idea, for what appears to be multiple reasons.
Also, "ghetto" unfortunately has taken on a pretty broad meaning these days. I don't know that folks are necessarily aware of it. It's too ubiquitous, especially among the privileged, but not always meanspirited. Although it is probably often meanspirited. Might even be in this case, I don't know.
Also, "ghetto" unfortunately has taken on a pretty broad meaning these days. I don't know that folks are necessarily aware of it. It's too ubiquitous, especially among the privileged, but not always meanspirited. Although it is probably often meanspirited. Might even be in this case, I don't know.
Kid in my class used to throw a huge hissy fit about homework assignments and answers to (for most people) pretty straight forward questions. He'd do stuff like throw books across the room and scream.
Teacher put a certificate above the whiteboard with a pacifier attached to it.
"Dumby Spit Award"
Every one loved it sans himself, I believe he never did it again.
Teacher put a certificate above the whiteboard with a pacifier attached to it.
"Dumby Spit Award"
Every one loved it sans himself, I believe he never did it again.
John Kowalski
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Everybody wants the ghetto classroom award, but nobody wants the ghetto classroom award.
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