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Teachers Deserve More Respect than Parents and Society Demand for them
We shouldn’t tolerate some behavior in schools… or anywhere
We need teachers.
When courageous substitute teachers stood in front of my public school classes, the students unified with one mission — make the teacher cry. Often we gave them the silent treatment. Sometimes we repeatedly sang hot hits, such as the alphabet song. A-B-C-D-E-F-Geee… Yes, that one.
But none of my classmates tried to cause physical harm. We engaged in psychological warfare. Maybe that’s because physical consequences awaited us when we stepped beyond well-defined boundaries.
That was a lo-o-o-ng time ago. You know, back when telephones had cords, and you exercised your brain every time you called someone. If you didn’t know a phone number, you called the operator or looked it up in a phone book. Back then, we regularly worked our brains in ways that are now obsolete.
What are teachers supposed to do?
It leaves me wondering if any brains worked during the chaos at a middle school in De Soto, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. According to news stories, a chair-throwing fight between a substitute teacher and a student occurred.
