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September 30, 2009
Exclusive: Just Suppose…
Suppose you are seated in a class where one third of the class is throwing spitballs, making noise and being disruptive. The other two thirds are either sitting quietly or trying to get the teacher’s attention so that instructor can make the disruptive students stop, but the teacher does not pay attention to their efforts. In fact, he gets up from his desk, walks to the front of the room, and begins to strongly warn the behaving students about their conduct and gently ask the disruptive students to do their best to behave better.
As you conclude that either the teacher or you are drunk or on drugs at the sight of this absurdity, the teacher proceeds to apologize to the class for the school’s policies. He asks the class to forgive the school for enforcing attendance, smoking, drinking and other regulations. He gently apologizes for any bad grades that students have received, any excessive homework that they have been assigned, or any detention slips that any of them have received for their poor behavior over the past year.
One of the students gets up and begins cursing the school, and the teacher sits by, smiling and nodding in agreement at what that student is saying, even laughing at some of that student’s jokes about the school. At this the teacher walks over to the most disruptive students, hugs them and acts like their friend, all the while ignoring the good students who behave.
He begins making some comments about religion in general, acting very religious, but he disrespects the religion of most of the class and openly supports the religion of a few students who have been trying to force the rest of the class to convert to their religion. In addition, some students from other classes storm into this class, and the teacher welcomes them with open arms, treating them even better than he treats those members of the class he dislikes.
A few of the students begin to praise this instructor openly, almost treating him like a god of some sort, and he seems to enjoy it. When one of the students in the class protests what is going on, the instructor merely frowns at him, ignores what he is saying, or calls him dangerous. To make matters worse, the school newspaper would constantly write glowing things about this teacher, pretending that he is the best thing that ever happened to the school.
Regardless of the what school district is involved, most people would agree that this was a very bad teacher, with either no clue what he was doing or some twisted agenda which has nothing to do with the good of the students, the school, or anyone other than himself. Now suppose that in three years the students of the school could vote to have this teacher fired from his job. What would you think of a student body or a school that would ever rehire this teacher? Here’s hoping that neither you nor I ever find ourselves in any school or with a student body stupid enough to rehire such a teacher. I am sure you realize that the future of that school or those students could well depend on that decision.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gabriel Garnica, Esq., is a college professor and licensed attorney whose regular commentary also appears on NewMediaJournal.us, Michnews and various Internet journals.
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