Accountability

When a student can cuss out a teacher, push a teacher multiple times, and throw things at the teacher in a high school classroom, then make false accusations about her, changing his story and adding embellishments with each telling, and still come to school with no recourse against him to protect the teacher, is it any wonder that we have such a lower number of first year teachers? That’s not to mention the pay scale compared to other professionals. I believe the parents should have to pay fines in cases like this, because if it starts costing the parents, the students will start getting held accountable. There was a classroom full of students who witnessed this incident, and the same student has since told the teacher and another staff member to shut the f*** up, adding racial slurs, then laughing as he walked out because he knows nothing is going to happen to him at school. At the very least, students should have to clean toilets, rake leaves or help the maintenance staff. Since they are refusing to be educated and disrupting the education of their fellow students, they need to find out what their careers will probably entail. I also wish we had some life skill type classes where the students are given realistic life events and budgets to deal with for a grade. I also wish we could educate kids about how long the welfare system can last, since more and more people are taking advantage of it, and the middle class is fast becoming a minority. Few people paying into this system and larger numbers living off it are a mirror to the culture of ancient Rome. See Taylor Caldwell’s book about Cicero in ancient Rome, A Pillar of Iron . Our society mirrors this story.