Letters to the Editor
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domini
Don't get me wrong I totally agree
If kids kick up a fight
They should pay whatever is the legally prescribed penalty.
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Not only do I not see a dress,
I don't even see breasts. There's a guy that jogs in my neighborhood with boobs twice that size.
As to her problems getting into the prom, different schools have different standards.
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@rupert
"Disturbing?" Spoken like someone who has never taught students with behavioral problems. Do you even have children? I mean that. How can one parent without directly telling the child at some point what is and isn't tolerated, no discussion?
Just a reminder: The school is not a therapeutic setting. It's educational. I would suggest Rupert that you do a Google search under educational interventions for students with behavioral problems. Most likely you will find "structured environment", "consistent and logical consequences" as recommendations. Cajoling, wheedling to a student who is being confrontational or manipulative is effective. Clear, calm repetition of rules and then follow through with the consequence. Anything else blurs the situation and gives the student the idea that they can get around the rules, prolonging the incident.
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Edit
I meant to say,
"Cajoling, wheedling to a student who is being confrontational or manipulative ISN'T effective."
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@farnsworth
Rupert_c is not a teacher. If he were, he would know why the school staff acted as they did and why "conflict resolution" is a ridiculous idea in the middle of class. Can you imagine telling your principal, "I didn't get to complete the chapter we needed to go over for testing because I felt I had to do a conflict resolution session?" Absurd.
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Houston is what?
Houston's my home town and I love it with a passion
But that girl's dress was a capital crime to fashion!
Are you for real? Houston blows. BIG TIME.
I live here now and cannot WAIT to get the fuck out of this city.
Don't even get me started on all the bullshit problems in this pathetic excuse for a city.
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@AlecsMom
A teacher is not supposed to be a Skinner Box.
Why are they the enemy?
Go to google video and watch "the trap" a three part bbc series and see how a schizophrenic changed the way we think about each other.
You give up being a person for being a process, a robot in the system following and enforcing rules rather than being a person.
People respect those who respect them. people listen to those who listen to them. people do not respect robots. We have been conditioned to behave as robots in many matters which are not appropriate.
I don't expect you to get it.
it is much better to use your mind rather than your playbook. that's called living.
Read Flatland or watch the movies. Depth gives you empathy.
You didn't become a teacher to be a Skinner Box.
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@alecxmom
" "I didn't get to complete the chapter we needed to go over for testing because I felt I had to do a conflict resolution session?" Absurd."
This was a prom, not a class.
You are quite hopeless.
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@ brightstar65
Wait a second, I thought you lived in Austin.
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@ Xanthro
The Oscars now require evening length gowns. If an actor wants to walk the red carpet, she must be appropriately attired. So, no they are not wearing gowns that short at the Oscars.
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@rupert
You are not a teacher or parent, correct? That's the problem. You don't know how to deal with children, young or older. I am a parent, and more importantly a special ed teacher and I have taught students with EBD. Clear setting of expectations and logical consequences are MANDATORY. I can't say that this girl has an EBD, but her reaction at the prom, which led to her arrest, suggests a problem. As for conflict resolution at the prom, it's absurd. The rules are the rules. Follow them or don't, your choice, but you have to accept the consequences. What is the conflict there? What's left to resolve? Any answers?
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@AlecsMom
EBDs, eh?
That sound pretty damned bad, if you ask me.
Worst part is that the EBDs always tend to get tied up with BPDs.
EBDs and BPDs, what an mess! The BPDs always manage to get over on the EBDs, don't they? Those stupid EBDs just don't get it and the BPDs are the ones to make sure that they do get it, RIGHT?
You know what a BPD is don't you? That is the polite term for it, because it you use the other two diagnostic terms, the patients tend not to respond to treatment and don't even come back to the doctor.
Which one would you rather be, a EBD or a BPD?
How does it feel when someone deals with you as a pathology rather than a person? I guess that depends if there is a person there or is it just the pathology. EBDs care and BPDs do not.
How many of your students are on drugs.
How many of your faculty are on drugs?
When I was a kid, no kid was whacked on drugs in my school. How come all the kids now are "defective" and in need of drugs? Are the kids defective or is the system defective?
I thought you people believed in evolution. I guess kids don't count.
You cannot think straight when you are on those drugs.
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How this woman chose to present her body
seems to have frightened and distressed many children.
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Dammit
One count of being Rick James
And one count of accessory to being Rick James.
You magnificent bastard, you just made tea come out my nose. Nice one!
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um
As other letter writers have been quick to point out, this young woman was not arrested because of her choice of dress but because of her refusal to cooperate with authorities. This irritates me for the same reason that tazing story irritated me... people got all offended that this kid was tazed for speaking his mind, when really he was tazed because he was being belligerent, hostile, and uncooperative in the presence of law enforcement officers as well as a Senator and presidential candidate.
But, if poor taste were a crime, this person certainly deserves to have had the book thrown at her for that, too.