The Continuing Crisis

[Refugee 7]

Another Criterion for Teacher Certification: Police in Fort Myers, Fla., were called to Royal Palm Exceptional School in April and wound up arresting an 8-year-old boy named Deshawn for punching his female teacher in the face, leaving several bruises. Said Deshawn's grandmother, Dorothy Williams, when interviewed by WBBH-TV: "He gets very upset, and he loves to hit," but "If he was overpowering her that much, I feel like she shouldn't be in that line of work." [MSNBC-WBBH-TV (Fort Myers), 4-24-08]

America in Decline: One of the Internet's successful Web sites (10 million page views a month, with $500,000 in ads from companies including Verizon, McDonald's and General Motors) is a site that merely reports on what celebrities' babies are wearing, in that so many mothers are apparently obsessed with mimicking those clothing choices for their own tots. A May Wall Street Journal feature said sometimes the site's posting a photo of a celebrity baby incites a nationwide run on what it's wearing. [Wall Street Journal, 5-10-08]

Workplace Culture: Salesman Chad Hudgens filed a lawsuit in January against his former Salt Lake City employer, charging that the boss and a "motivational trainer" used, as a "team-building" exercise, what was essentially the controversial "torture" practice of "waterboarding." The boss allegedly said that if salesmen tried as hard to close deals as they're trying to breathe during the simulated drowning, sales would soar. [salt Lake Tribune 2-27-08]

British office worker Theresa Bailey, 43, was awarded the equivalent of about $10,300 by a court in Ashford, England, in May after she complained of sexual harassment by her otherwise-all-male direct-marketing team at Selectabase company. Among the "laddish" behavior was her boss's regularly "lift(ing) his right cheek" and expelling gas in her direction. [Daily Mail (London), 5-15-08]

The U.S. military operates a beachfront vacation site for its personnel worldwide and their families at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, with $42-a-night air-conditioned suites, surfing, boat rides, golf course, bowling alley and even a gift shop. One T-shirt for sale reads, "The Taliban Towers at Guantanamo Bay, the Caribbean's Newest 5-star Resort." News of the facility was not widely reported until a British lawyer who represents 28 of the nearly 300 detainees housed there described it to London's Daily Mail in May. [Daily Mail, 5-3-08]

[agirl 0]

Thanks, Ref. I love these, but this one takes the cake:

Take note teachers.

"He gets very upset, and he loves to hit," but "If he was overpowering her that much, I feel like she shouldn't be in that line of work."

:confused: :eek:

[Mudcrutch 285]

He gets very upset, and he loves to hit,"

irresponsible parenting. not the teachers fault.

[Echosoftom 3]

Yeah, I'd say the human race is certainly circling the drain. :jpshakehead:

[Starfish 0]

Apparently self defense courses should be part of the requirements for becoming a licensed teacher... good grief! What is wrong with these people?

[Beamish 0]

Just another reason I hate working for a school district. We aren't even allowed to look at the little darlings funny, and then we hear the same crap as that grandma said. My leg was broken when I tried to stop a student from beating the teacher with a chair, and his mom told me "You must have made him really mad." He was not suspended or removed from class, and when we had hard feelings about that we were told "You knew these kids were like this when you took the job." Unreal.