tuna55 wrote: My sisters school caught one girl masturbating while the class was watching a documentary about the Holocaust. They didn't even send her home for that day.
When my son was 8 (he is now 26), a 7 year old boy was caught administering oral sex to a 7 year old girl under her desk, after a beginner's sex ed class called "Good Touch, Bad Touch".
The school's solution was to teach the class again. 
That's when we started home schooling.
In reply to Joe Gearin:
I'm your ice cream man, stop me as I'm passing by. 
I can only assume that the student felt very threatened by someone to take matters into her own hands like that. I've been in a similar situation in jr high, and it wasn't until I hit the guy upside the head with an aluminum bat that the intimidation stopped. Bright side was, nobody EVER berkeleyed with me again while I was in that school.
^I'm quite certain that qualifies as assault and battery.^
But good for you, girl!
SVreX wrote: When my son was 8 (he is now 26), a 7 year old boy was caught administering oral sex to a 7 year old girl under her desk, after a beginner's sex ed class called "Good Touch, Bad Touch". The school's solution was to teach the class again.
They had to reshow the video? Was he doing it wrong?
In reply to Wally:
That's my point.
Seems to me this thing was blown all out of proportion.
Was she just waving the gun around or play shooting them.
What was her knowledge of real guns ?
She can see shooting on TV everyday.
The gun should have been confiscated.
The girl talked too and told what she did was not good behavior.
A phone call to the parents.
While driving school bus, I had a 13 yr. old girl ask me what a "rubber" was. I told her that it was something that people used to wear over their shoes in wet weather.
In reply to SVreX:
It was self defense, after a long period of bullying and intimidation on his part. I'm just thinking she may have felt bullied or intimidated by someone on that bus prior to the gun incident.
In reply to EastCoastMojo:
I'm not doubting you, but a "long period of bullying" doesn't make it self defense. It makes it vengeance. And battery.
UNLESS he was attacking you, and you happened to have a bat in your hand.
Don't get me wrong, I'd want my daughter to do the same thing.
He was, my best friend and I were on the bleachers eating lunch. They used to store the bats under the bleachers. It was a bad situation all the way around.
/thread hijack
"The kid (who my wife said was her #1 pick she had if any of her kids would ever go off the deep end, so at least her gaydar for psychos is working)"
What kind of horrible person would sit back and judge & label a poor little girl like that. Even if she kept it to herself, but obviously she talks crap about the kids behind their backs since I am reading it on the internets.
I am sure your wife wife was not blinded by her preconceived notions on this kid as she delt with her on a daily basis. The poor kid probably doesn't have a loving home and the one other adult in her life thinks she is a psycho.
It isn't your wife's job as a teacher to love on those kids, but as a human, it is her duty to help a troubled youth when she obviously notices it. One truly positive encounter with a person who cares every day can be all that someone needs to stay sane. It could as be a positive in your life as well.
a little harsh there, without actually knowing the people involved, aren't you …
There is no other job quite like being a teacher where people with no clue what it's like or what you actually do will be so quick to jump on you and tell you how wrong you are and how your job is supposed to be done.
My buddies and I used to play a SPI board game in High School called "Sniper". It was a man-to-man street fighting simulation of WWII urban combat. We made a custom map of the school building to play the game. Today we'd no doubt have been thrown out of school permanently if caught playing that during a free hour.
In regards to a 3rd Grader being too young to be a significant threat, don't forget Jonesboro.
Beer Baron wrote: There is no other job quite like being a teacher where people with no clue what it's like or what you actually do will be so quick to jump on you and tell you how wrong you are and how your job is supposed to be done.
Plus eleventy-billion.
In reality, teachers are a much maligned group. Except when people talk about the teachers of their own children. Then the results are generally positive.
It is a challenging and rewarding job. Parents can make it easier. And make it much more difficult.
Beer Baron wrote: There is no other job quite like being a teacher where people with no clue what it's like or what you actually do will be so quick to jump on you and tell you how wrong you are and how your job is supposed to be done.
Try being a parent! Everyone knows how to raise kids correctly. Especially people without them.
In reply to wbjones:
You don't want to be judged harshly, then don't post on a public forum that your wife told you that she thinks a little girl in her class was a psycho.
As a father, I would hope the teachers would be more accepting. I very much appreciate the job my kids teachers are doing and would be crushed to read a post like the OP did about my kids.
In reply to Rusnak_322:
and if you don't want to be called out, then maybe you shouldn't speak to things when you don't have all the info
AND it appears that your home (and parenting skills, concerns, and cares) are a bit different for what the OP's wife was seeing in this instance
Rusnak_322 wrote: As a father, I would hope the teachers would be more accepting. I very much appreciate the job my kids teachers are doing and would be crushed to read a post like the OP did about my kids.
Teachers are not saints. They are people. All people have biases and make judgments. No one is 100% accepting. What is amazing is that teachers can be so accepting and understanding as they are given all the b.s. they have to put up with.
Keep in mind the description of "psycho" was used by a husband unhappy about the situation his teacher-wife was put into, not the words of the teacher. Yes, that teacher is very frustrated by the student and situation. You know why the teacher is so frustrated? Because she cares.
You appreciate the job your kids teachers are doing. Try to appreciate the job that all teachers are doing.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:Beer Baron wrote: There is no other job quite like being a teacher where people with no clue what it's like or what you actually do will be so quick to jump on you and tell you how wrong you are and how your job is supposed to be done.Try being a parent! Everyone knows how to raise kids correctly. Especially people without them.
The damn truth, you should see the looks and hear the comments when people find out I am the stay at home parent. Next MoFo says anything about being the "homemaker" to my face is gonna make me blow my stack
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