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Friday, March 03, 2006
Ann Althouse Supports the Torture of Children
Ok, not
exactly
.
But she is supportive of a teacher who was disciplined (10-day pay loss), for denying a student's request to use the bathroom. The student suggested he'd use a wastebasket in a closet, then. She said "Go ahead" (not thinking he'd really go through with it).
He did. :-)
Listen, I'm sympathetic to the difficulty teachers can have maintaining the attention of a roomful of involuntary captives. I say: "Too bad!" It's not an excuse to treat them worse than prisoners of war.
If you don't like the job, get a better one.
Althouse says the teacher just made a "judgement call" that the kid didn't really need to go. She is, as all teachers are, completely incompetent to make such judgements for other people. I think it's a horrible abuse of power.
Perhaps, it was a common abuse of power when many of us were students.
But, it's abusive all the same.
But she is supportive of a teacher who was disciplined (10-day pay loss), for denying a student's request to use the bathroom. The student suggested he'd use a wastebasket in a closet, then. She said "Go ahead" (not thinking he'd really go through with it).
He did. :-)
Listen, I'm sympathetic to the difficulty teachers can have maintaining the attention of a roomful of involuntary captives. I say: "Too bad!" It's not an excuse to treat them worse than prisoners of war.
If you don't like the job, get a better one.
Althouse says the teacher just made a "judgement call" that the kid didn't really need to go. She is, as all teachers are, completely incompetent to make such judgements for other people. I think it's a horrible abuse of power.
Perhaps, it was a common abuse of power when many of us were students.
But, it's abusive all the same.