Saddam Captured!

[Weltall]

Originally posted by A Black Falcon
But it's really hard to do when you know that if you do anything to upset the students you could be sued...

Anyway, I think most teachers can do a decent job if they try. I know that I had plenty of teachers that enforced rules... things like the case Weltall mentions are, I'd say, a condemnation of poor urban schools, not of the public school system.

Wrong. The school, represented by the teacher, did the right thing (and got physically assaulted for doing her job). It was the system, the bloated bureaucracy, that condemned the teacher for enforcing the rules. It's the system telling us that students should be allowed to do whatever they want and damn the consequences, and the schools are at the mercy of this system.

It is this system that is to blame, and that needs to be replaced.