There is immaturity, there is out of control, and then there is what you are about to see. I don’t know what country this is anymore. Behavior that used to only take place behind closed doors, and then only rarely, is common place on our streets and in our institutions in 2021. Acting out is the order of the day.
Here is a young high school girl, 16 or 17, having a bad time. Exactly what she’s reacting to is unknown. Her lack of self control is incredible. I hope she doesn’t find herself in a group of protesters and carrying a rifle, seriously.
Video shows a #student hitting #teacher and throwing a phone towards her way, this happened at Castleberry High School in #FortWorth pic.twitter.com/De0MVKTgUJ
— SmashDaTopic (@SmashDaTopic) November 19, 2021
I grew up in a lily white suburb of Denver. We had one Black student in the entire school and he didn’t show up until my senior year. A friend asked me, “Is that a Negro?” I said, “Are you crazy asking me that? Of course he is and the term is ‘Black'” She replied, “I never saw one before.” And indeed she had not, other than on the silver screen.
We had no Black teachers. Taking the color equation out of it, though, this behavior would not have flown at my high school for ten seconds. The wildest thing that I ever did in class, personally, was when I devised an excuse to get out of class because I was bored. It took me three tries to cobble together the right excuse and the teacher was aware of what I was doing, but she finally gave up and gave me a hall pass. Maybe this gal is bored as well.
It’s a rough age to be, but in point of fact, all ages are rough to be, just for different reasons.
The back story to this is not known and I will update the piece if I find out more information. I am blown away by this because whether school is a good place or a bad place it is supposed to be a socializing place. We learn in school the skills that are going to carry us through the work world and our encounters with others the rest of our lives.
I didn’t attend a high school that was an open air lunatic asylum like this one looks to be, but then again, it’s no longer the late sixties, early seventies. America had its problems. High school kids wore armbands, protested Vietnam and the draft. But they didn’t strike teachers and throw phones. Maybe I should be more grateful than I am for that fact.
There are a few more details over at Newsweek, but this is the gist of it.
That teacher showed an incredible amount of self control. She never yelled, she didn’t grab the girl and throw her to the ground which some others (white) have done to other students (black). She deserves a medal and that girl deserves to be expelled.
Indeed!!!!
I also grew up in the lily-white suburbs of Denver, toward the late ’70s. It was almost exactly as you mention; all the teachers were white, one black student that I can remember … … It was a miserable experience and I was glad to get out. It was only by some sort of grace that I had my own interests that I finally ended up in the university.
Which university? C.U.? I went to C.U. Boulder. Or did you go to University of Denver?
We had a few black students, but far more brown. And we wouldn’t have dared treat a teacher that way. It was the mid-60s and that school still had a strict dress code….
Unfortunately, this seems to be reflection of our society in general. I have heard of a woman pulling the hijab off another woman and injuring her. All this, simply because she was different and of course, Muslim. I remember being a child in the 60’s and seeing pictures of people with different garb in schoolbooks. Usually, it was something about the UN. I would never have dreamed of putting my hands on strangers or disrespecting people for being different. Nowadays, store workers and flight attendants are physically assaulted on the regular.
Awwwww her lily white covfefe’s were upset. She damn well better be suspended at minimum or expelled.
I read more of this story elsewhere, the teacher got on the girl about something and the girl slapped her, then commandeered the phone on the teacher’s desk to call her own mother, and said, “…she’s Black and she’s pissing me off!” evidently she didn’t like what her mother had to say either, since that’s when she threw the handset at the teacher. I think it was in Political Flare (am I allowed to say that here?). But they did not give the location, Texas, huh, big surprise.
You read the Newsweek information, whether you got it here or some other site. I haven’t seen any updates anywhere.
according to the mother of the young woman, she is autistic and has mental health issues. The mother also was hoping to apologize to the teacher.
Is this a good time to talk about Teacher pay and the lack of resources in the classrooms?
She does’t need any training/
This isn’t all that new.
In 1975, my first year as a school.librarian inBaltimore, I took a knife away from an 8th grade boy. I am 5’2″ and weighed 120 at the time. He was 5’8″ and weighed around 145. He got suspended. Kid was a psychopath in the making who bounced between juvie, public school.and the mental.hospital. He was Not returning to.that s chool,and was being placed in the school.for violent and troubled boys.
In 1977,a 5th grader was shipped to the library because he disturbed the class. I had him.shelving books. Until I felt an erection against my butt. I moved out to “sort books because we had been working in the stacks. He grabbed my breast. I shipped him.back to.his teacher and told her why. I told the Asst. Principal who found it hilarious. Since I got no backing,I was glad I had sat the kid down and told him.what he did was morally wrong and a crime and that he was lucky I only told the school.instead of calling the police who would put him in jail.
I am sure if they had had phones…
Jack Chalket, the st writer,was a teacher. A kid three a chair at him while the regional.supt. was there. Jack.got security,and returned to.find the supervisor and the kid choking each other.
Fun times. No way would I be a school.librarian. The job is too dangerous and pays far too little.
Wow. That is incredible. I have friends who are librarians, but at the university level. I didn’t know that kind of thing went on, shows you how naive I am.
That pupil should be expelled. I started to call her a student, but that implies the self discipline needed to study. I don:’t think she has any self discipline needed to be a student, so I will not refer to her as that. With uncontrolled behavior like that as late as age 16, this female is going to be unemployable, and will find herself having a very bad time in life. Her parents did a very great disservice to her by sparing the rod and spoiling the child. I think this is one case in which Heinlein had it right.
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