I am so goddamn sick and tired of the need to punish people in our culture.

[Igel]

23. That passage is sort of where pronouns go to lose themselves.

I can read it that the first teacher wouldn't let the English teacher accept it.

Or the first teacher would have, but the English teacher wouldn't.

When you have 160 kids, you can't have 160 different sets of rules for 80 different assignments over 18 weeks. Esp. when you've helped kids, bent over backwards to accept late work, and still they can't have the simple decency to get things done.

Even the example above where the missing hour was done but the "wind blew" the form off the principal's or advisor's desk is typical. Don't hand it to him. At the last minute put it there and expect that he'll comply with the demand to fulfill his duties perfectly. The kid has rights; everybody else has responsibilities and obligations.

Nice to be special. As one student this year put it, they feel 'empowered.' As I retorted, 'dictatorial.' They get to college or get a job and have a real, real hard time.

A lot of my students' attitude towards their jobs was, "I hate my dickhead boss. Let him fire me, sometimes I screw up on purpose just to piss him off."