If you're young, rest assured that being a teacher is the best possible training you could ever have for being a parent.
And being a parent is a great way to train to be a teacher 
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That makes sense, if you're a good parent.
You sometimes have to sacrifice the one to save the many -- Spock
I see that there are major problems all over.
Hmmm...I can't tell whether you're being serious or sarcastic. But I really, really hate throwing kids out of the classroom. One of my colleagues said, "Well, you didn't throw the kid out. You threw his shirt out."
And while that's true, I still kind of wish the kid hadn't been in it when I did it.
It was still better than wrestling the kid to the ground and tearing his shirt off. I know someone who might've that.
I'm even more impressed with your ten-year record of not kicking a kid out of your class! That's amazing! The first amendment is great, but at the same time, freedom is not free, and too often, these kids feel much too entitled ... I sound more like a teacher every day, man.
Good post, sir ...
This is a great post. Teachers have to deal with so much more than test scores. The DoE forgets that. This is why tenure is so important because our job entails more than "the bottom line".
I've found that the bit about teaching is practice for parenting is true. You see how certain behaviors in your children will look in 10 years when their teenagers--because you see it all the time--and you think, "Oh no! No child of mine will act like that!" So, then as a parent you fight those battles until you win, and sooner or later your kids see you mean business.
I wouldn't say that you necessarily threw the kid out. He had a choice to comply, and he chose not to--repeatedly. He chose the highway instead of your way!
The dad would never have had to come to school to confront his kid if he had known what his kid was wearing in the first place. What kind of parent would allow a child to wear the kind of shirt you described? The dad is the moron, not the student! But both should be held accountable. This is truly an I'm-shaking-my-head-in-bewilderment story.
I'm constantly amazed at what parents let their children wear to school at the elementary level. I personally don't care to see 4th graders walking around with a shirt that says, "Hooters waitress in training"
Prostitot wear for even younger kids is even worse...
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I'm with Happy Chyck- the kid CHOSE to leave. Stupid choice, but it was his to make. Good for you for being consistent.
"What kind of parent would allow a child to wear the kind of shirt you described? The dad is the moron, not the student!"
CTG, what makes you think that the kid didn't have it under another shirt when he left the house or that the father even knows it exists? The kids in my school were actually wearing jeans under their unifrorm pants and the surreptitiously taking the uniform pants off after homeroom--ditto for T-shirts under blouses etc.
As hard as it is to be a teacher in this disclipine-anemic school system, it's hard to be a parent, too. Your kids go to a place for 35 hours a week where they learn how to be brats.
I, too, had a student with an obscene shirt on, who I sent out. He made the choice not to comply.
Of course, his parents came in, and the mother argued with the principal about the shirt.
My dad wouldn't have. He would have been polite, then whomped the stupid out of me at home.
I, not being the violent type, would have taken the shirt, lit a match, and burned it, preferably in front of the kid's friends.
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