How I Joined Teach for America—and Got Sued for $20 Million

[Josquius]

I nearly made it to the end of part 1....then I fell.

[Iormlund]

There is a similar trend developing in Spain. It even has the race factor in the form of hundreds of thousands of immigrant kids, most of whom have pretty much no prior education.
I visited my old high school a couple months ago. Nowadays it's got a 4m high fence and every door is locked during classes. It looks like a prison. I was surprised not to see metal detectors in the entrance.

[jimmy olsen]

Suburban Rhode Island.

Rhode Island is big enough to have suburbs? 

Rhode Island IS a suburb of Boston.

Yeah, pretty much. Even Providence is just a satellite city of Boston.

[Razgovory]

I think Tim should not look into this program.

[Razgovory]

I wonder how many people see the correlation between Gates' behavior and this story?

Thank you Glen Beck.

[Neil]

There is a similar trend developing in Spain. It even has the race factor in the form of hundreds of thousands of immigrant kids, most of whom have pretty much no prior education.
I visited my old high school a couple months ago. Nowadays it's got a 4m high fence and every door is locked during classes. It looks like a prison. I was surprised not to see metal detectors in the entrance.

It's not like the curse of individualism only affects the US.

[Jaron]

It sounds like this dude was way underprepared for teaching, especially in the inner city.

And any reasonable teacher would have known to get out once administration completely stops supporting you.

As for the lawsuit..I'll refrain from commenting, as Berkut is so much more eloquent with his racism than I.

[HisMajestyBOB]

pt. 2

When I asked other teachers to come help me stop a fight, they shook their heads and reminded me that D.C. Public Schools banned teachers from laying hands on students for any reason, even to protect other children.

That's crazy and certainly not the case in Rhode Island.

Sadly, I think it's also the case in Virginia, or at least in some counties. I remember my mother, a teacher, telling me something along those lines.

It sounds like this dude was way underprepared for teaching, especially in the inner city.

That's true. As soon as he started going on about "sparking young minds" I could see the trainwreck coming.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Friend of mine is a dean of discipline in the Lawrence (shithole) school system and he has similar stories. Some little psycho stabbed a teacher witha pencil and was back in class before the end of the day after apologizing to the principal.  One of the few parents who appeared for a parent-teacher conference actually started beating the crap out of her son during the conference, so my friend then had to be a witness at the trial.  Funny stuff, since its somewhere else.

[Neil]

As soon as he started going on about "sparking young minds" I could see the trainwreck coming.

No shit.  You can hardly spark a clever white kid's mind, let alone inner city types.

[jimmy olsen]

pt. 2

When I asked other teachers to come help me stop a fight, they shook their heads and reminded me that D.C. Public Schools banned teachers from laying hands on students for any reason, even to protect other children.

That's crazy and certainly not the case in Rhode Island.

Sadly, I think it's also the case in Virginia, or at least in some counties. I remember my mother, a teacher, telling me something along those lines.

It sounds like this dude was way underprepared for teaching, especially in the inner city.

That's true. As soon as he started going on about "sparking young minds" I could see the trainwreck coming.

You get my PM Bob?

[Jaron]

So, guess who just signed up with Teach for America

[HisMajestyBOB]

pt. 2

When I asked other teachers to come help me stop a fight, they shook their heads and reminded me that D.C. Public Schools banned teachers from laying hands on students for any reason, even to protect other children.

That's crazy and certainly not the case in Rhode Island.

Sadly, I think it's also the case in Virginia, or at least in some counties. I remember my mother, a teacher, telling me something along those lines.

It sounds like this dude was way underprepared for teaching, especially in the inner city.

That's true. As soon as he started going on about "sparking young minds" I could see the trainwreck coming.

You get my PM Bob?

Yep.

[grumbler]

THE primary reason I moved from public-school teaching to private-school teaching is that, in a private school, you can kick kids out.  That makes a world of difference.  If public school systems ran a disciplinary subset of schools to whom problem children could be relegated, they would see a huge difference in classroom behavior.  You could even call them "alternative schools" to avoid the stigma.

Allowing teachers to physically discipline children isn't the answer (except to lawyers' dreams).

[jimmy olsen]

pt. 2

When I asked other teachers to come help me stop a fight, they shook their heads and reminded me that D.C. Public Schools banned teachers from laying hands on students for any reason, even to protect other children.

That's crazy and certainly not the case in Rhode Island.

Sadly, I think it's also the case in Virginia, or at least in some counties. I remember my mother, a teacher, telling me something along those lines.

It sounds like this dude was way underprepared for teaching, especially in the inner city.

That's true. As soon as he started going on about "sparking young minds" I could see the trainwreck coming.

You get my PM Bob?

Yep.

And is there gonna be a response?