Why I Don't Want to Teach High School Students, Part the 135,673,857th

[elbales]

A crew of boys went by a bit ago, bellowing the ways boys will, and one of them screamed, just as they passed my room, "SHUT UP, DOWN'S SCHOOL IS MEETING." (Or something to that effect.)

I told my students that nothing inspires me to go postal faster than people messing with my students in any way, including by insulting them.

Yeah, they're just stupid ignorant boys who think anything different is bad and threatening and who probably cannot possibly conceive of coming to school just because you want to. Don't care. They still suck. And I would still throw someone out of my class if he made hateful ignorant comments about developmentally disabled people, even if it's "only" to suggest that Down's is in some way "bad."
 

Comments

[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

They should be half as lucky to have as much character and grace as your students. Perhaps when they are 80 they'll have 1/4 as much. YOU MAY TELL THEM AND THEIR PARENTS I SAID AS MUCH. (because obviously those boys are not being raised with any sense of decency)

[elbales]

Eh, I didn't even see their faces, really. Thanks, though.