September 30, 2011

Teacher of the Year: "Shut up and sit down! This ain’t no Crips, Bloods kind of nonsense. … You can’t talk it out, then get out."

A bit more of this and some schools wouldn't be such shams and sinkholes.

“You boys are pissing me off! Hey! Hey! … Both of y’all, listen. Quit sellin’ out of my house, Anthony. [Turning to the other student he says] Shut up and sit down, before I make change out of you and you! If you don’t take that mess over there right now — right now! It‘s not like you’re going to push through me to get to him. You ain’t! So take it over there if you can’t squash it like gentlemen and get out of his face — and get out of mine, get over there. Take it, Anthony.
“Now, if you can’t squash it, do that off campus. Y‘all don’t do that in here. Whoever made you believe you could, we could squash this right now. … Anybody else? Trust me, we could take it to the grass. Trust me. It’s been that type of Tuesday. You’re too young, your life is too short for y‘all to be sellin’ out with that kind of nonsense. This ain’t no Crips, Bloods kind of nonsense. … You can’t talk it out, then get out. “
Posted by Vanderleun at September 30, 2011 2:37 PM
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We need more men in schools.

Posted by: RedCarolina at September 30, 2011 6:21 PM

SURE, but if you are a man you have to have your head examined if you want to work in the schools these days. They are snake pits for men. No future there.

Posted by: vanderleun at September 30, 2011 9:22 PM

That is true, Vanderleun. What we need even more fundamentally are segregated schools--by gender. The male teachers will make a comeback. So will the boys.

Posted by: james wilson at September 30, 2011 10:03 PM

Red,

True dat.

Gerard,

Also true. Back in the early '80s I (as usual) needed a job, and was convinced by the "we need more men" line to take a job in a pre-school. I loved it, the largely fatherless kids loved it; the parents were ecstatic.

Two young women worked there. The pretty one was real happy about the whole deal; the angry one started undermining almost immediately, with the result that I got fired because "I had a problem with women."

Gals love it when you do the dishes, but God help you if you're a better cook.

Posted by: Rob De Witt at October 1, 2011 12:29 AM