Brickbat: Chew on This

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Marquis Jay was sitting at his desk at Boles Junior High School in Texas and had his head tilted back and his mouth open. That's when a teacher walked buy and dumped pencil shavings into his mouth. Jay's mother says the school suspended the teacher, who wasn't named in press accounts. But the mom says she wants her fired.

Comments

[Counterfly Guard]

You know how much I normally have to pay to get a chick to dump things in my mouth while I pretend to be asleep?

It's a lot.

[Ted S.]

I'm sure there are people kinky enough to do it for free.

[Counterfly Guard]

There are, but they're all fatties.

[Drake]

I went to a Catholic High School where the teacher would have kicked my desk over.

[sticks]

Caesar: To whom brother! To whom brother!

[PS]

Marquis says the teacher is back at school and has apologized, "She said sorry for what happened. She wasn't thinking right."

It doesn't say so I'll assume she was suspended with pay. And of course the teacher's name was kept confidential for reasons of transparency.

[wareagle]

never been a fan of firing people, but this demands a bit more than a tepid apology. The mom might want to remember that her little snowflake was sleeping on the job, literally; the teacher needs a few days off, without pay. Court is adjourned.

[Counterfly Guard]

So the teacher was both boring and vindictive. Really, there's no excuse for dumping shavings in a kid's mouth.

Either write him up (i.e. FOLLOW PROCEEEEDURRRZZZ) or nudge him awake, or leave the room for a minute and let his 'friends' draw cocks on his face. Any of those are acceptable. Doing something that could quite possibly asphyxiate him is not. It shows not a lapse in judgement, but a complete lack of it.

I sentence her to nearly the same wages, but without having to work, and without access to evil peoples' children.

[HazelMeade]

or leave the room for a minute and let his 'friends' draw cocks on his face. Any of those are acceptable.

Arguably leaving the room to let the other kids do whatever they want to his face is a much worse infraction.

[Astra]

I was the classic good student type, gold star achiever, etc., and I fell asleep at school a lot. Teens need a lot of sleep and don't always get it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

If I came home with a story like this, I'm pretty sure my parents would have asked me why I was sleeping in class. The teacher's response wouldn't have entered into the discussion.

More importantly, that kid will never drive the Cardassians out of the demilitarized zone with a work ethic like that.

[Counterfly Guard]

He was only asleep because he was up all night studying deuterium plasma interactions in dilithium warp fields.

Do you ever even dig below the surface or do you just judge every book by its cover.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I don't even bother looking at the cover.

[Counterfly Guard]

You should, most of them have hot chicks on them.

[Ted S.]

This would explain how you consistently get the first post here.

[Question of Auban]

Seriously, pencils may not be made with real lead any more but the shit they put in pencils nowadays is still not very healthy to consume. I agree the kid should not have been sleeping but the teacher is supposed to be more responsible than the student. Also, could be that the student is exceptionally bright and finds the subject matter boring. That does happen sometimes. Maybe the kid should move up a grade, graduate early or be offered a change to take college classes or something.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...is still not very healthy to consume.

So the First Lady has gotten to you, too. I suppose you would have preferred tofu shavings and Brussel sprout leaves. THOSE THINGS ARE ALSO A CHOKING HAZARD. Or didn't you consider that when cocking off?

[Question of Auban]

Pencils are vegetarian and low fat. Not my point. My point is that this is a type of physical punishment that is unacceptable if my tax dollars are going to be used to pay for it. Hey, if we didn't have public schools this wouldn't be an issue would it? But if my taxes are going to be forcibly extracted to pay for this I expect better behavior from the prison guards.

[Counterfly Guard]

Typical, and you have no such expectations for the actual aggressor in this situation: the sleeping student.

People like you are why we need unions.

[Question of Auban]

+10

[db]

Not to worry, pencils will soon be banned because they are almost entirely The Evul Carbonzz!

[mnarayan]

Pencils first, then people.

[Ted S.]

Make the teacher read "I, Pencil". Might challenger her socialist world-view.

[Question of Auban]

And the students might actually learn something!

[db]

Pencils were never made with actual elemental lead.

[SugarFree]

Maybe your cheap ass white trash pencils weren't, but not all of us grew up barefoot in a broke down trailer.

[db]

I see you learned to check your white suburban privilege while you chewed on the real lead pencils of your youth.

[Question of Auban]

Reason #7,297 to homeschool your kids.

[Drake]

Because you want to deal with a disrespectful brat who sleeps while you talk?

[Lord Peter Wimsey]

Because Spongebob provides a perfectly good education for the Post-modern world.

[Ted S.]

At least he won't interrupt the teacher with the truth like the well-read kid who's already learned the material elsewhere will.

(I should know; I was that well-read kid growing up.)

[Question of Auban]

And homeschooled kids can be more well read and not have to waste time on global warming propaganda and guilt-trip studdies.

[Question of Auban]

Because a kid who is homeschooled is less likely to become a disrespectful brat who sleeps while you talk. And, actually knowing my own kid I might be able to better understand WHY the kid is sleeping if he does sleep. Maybe he stayed up late last night? Maybe he has a medical condition the ahole teacher does not know about? Maybe he is WAY BEYOND the rest of the class and needs to be challenged more?

[Randian]

Even I, Public Enemy #1 of the Teacher's and their UInionz, don't give a shit about this. I think it's hilarious.

[HazelMeade]

I have to admit that I would find it hard to resist the temptation to drop something in a student's mouth if he was sleeping with his head back and his mouth just gaping wide open, all inviting like.
I guess I shouldn't be a teacher.

[Romulus Augustus]

More than once we all crept out of class and left the sleeping student to wake in the middle of the next class to be laughed out by all.

[Death Rock and Skull]

I fell asleep all the time in school. Then it turned out I have a neurological disorder.

[Copernicus]

However, if a 6 year-old pulled this prank, he/she would be hauled away by the cops for terrorism and suspended for malicious bullying.

[Copernicus]

Not to mention it seems like a good way to kill someone by choking on the debris.

[db]

*drops pencil shavings in Z's yawning pie-hole*

[Death Rock and Skull]

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