Texas Teacher Suspended for 'Go Back to Mexico' Comment

[Drahthaardogs]

134. Yeah, I have taught Jr. High

I filled in for a teacher one half semester who went on maternity leave while I was in grad school working on my research (all I had left), so I taught algebra and biology to 7th and 8th graders. They can be idiots for sure. You know what stinks here? What stinks is that this kid's behavior was disruptive, and that he was disrupting the environment for the other 29 kids in the classroom, and you're defending it.

Don't tell me about adolescence. My grandfather went into the coal mines at age 13 because his father was killed in a cave-in. He had 4 brothers and sisters to feed and no security net. He came out 46 years later. I grew up on a ranch and I worked right alongside the men from the time I was 7 years old. Granted, I could not do everything they could, but I could sure sit a saddle an push cows with them. It is about expectations. He misbehaves because we have a neutered school system, teachers cannot enforce discipline in their own classrooms, and parents don't give a good goddamn. He can get away with bad behavior and he knows it. Ask any teacher today what the problem is, it is PARENTS who defend their kids no matter what they do.

Now, if you want to sit there and state this teacher blew it, I will agree. However, if you are going to sit there and tell me that she should TOLERATE and the rest of the parents should accommodate this behavior, I am going to say you are full of it and need a big dose of reality.