I live in yoga pants in the spring. Although my lulu's are the proper size for me and you can't see anything...plus I do tend to wear longer sweaters/shirts anyways. Sorry if the pants make my butt look good, jeans and my dress pants do that too! What am I going to wear that doesn't show off my bottom, a paper bag? My issue is more with wearing leggings as pants because they are really revealing and the style is to wear them with longer top layers, not with a short t-shirt. Lulus are not all leggings...grr.
The classroom teacher has no authority when it comes to suspensions. We have no power and this new legislation does not give us any power. Suspensions and Expulsions are administration and board duties. A kid can tell me to go F*** myself and it is not up to me what the punishment is. My take on it is the legislation will do nothing. People keep thinking that bullying is a just a school issue...it is not just happening at school, it happens everywhere now.
I understand your point. Mine was more about the "bully intolerance culture" that is being fostered, while valued today... I fear it is a fertile ground for abuse by students and educators alike. When "everything" kids do wrong gets rolled into the "bullying" category... it brings to life a twist on the allegory about hammers and nails... If you treat every problem like a nail, you only need a hammer. ah, maybe I'm talk'en out of my #ss... I'm just reacting to a news glut of bullying issues with a solid bad family experience (stories about Ed from years ago) I get a bit cynical.
What I can see happening (especially in the elementary schools and 'trigger happy' admin) is kids are going to use it as an excuse to get another kid in trouble. When I supplied in elementary for a bit in September, some of the kids would yell out "so and so is bullying me", even though they weren't....another way to 'tattle' on another kid even if they don't do anything. I could also see the trigger happy admin using it as an excuse to kick a kid out of the school and unfortunately those admin do exist
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The classroom teacher has no authority when it comes to suspensions. We have no power and this new legislation does not give us any power. Suspensions and Expulsions are administration and board duties. A kid can tell me to go F*** myself and it is not up to me what the punishment is. My take on it is the legislation will do nothing. People keep thinking that bullying is a just a school issue...it is not just happening at school, it happens everywhere now.
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Mine was more about the "bully intolerance culture" that is being fostered, while valued today... I fear it is a fertile ground for abuse by students and educators alike. When "everything" kids do wrong gets rolled into the "bullying" category... it brings to life a twist on the allegory about hammers and nails... If you treat every problem like a nail, you only need a hammer. ah, maybe I'm talk'en out of my #ss... I'm just reacting to a news glut of bullying issues with a solid bad family experience (stories about Ed from years ago) I get a bit cynical.
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Michael Tuesdays & Thursdays being
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