Displaying Tolerance
As a high school teacher working in an inner city school, I lost count of the number of times I encountered students who presented themselves in an insubordinate insulting manner. But as a teacher I never hit a student or felt the urge to shoot them dead. Indeed I put my hands behind my back so as to display a non aggressive pose. My function was twofold - first to demonstrate productive behavior and instill the same in these soon to be adults. I wish I could say the same of our street guardians - the police. All too often insubordination is met by the police not with tolerance, but with lethal force.Okay your turn. Time for all you "tolerant" right wing thinkers to tell the world how I am wrong. I had my say.
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The non aggressive pose ain't all bad, in proper circumstance, and with the right child. But the best teachers rarely get that far, allowing their ability to schmooze with the whole groups to make for an atmosphere of mutual respect, and trust. And fun. With lots of humor. some appropriately self depreciating---they eat it up. The brighter more grounded kids soon get it, and exert peer pressure on the more needy, and less talented---ie, the future marginal teachers of the world.
You need to try to stop trying to cast about virtue, and quit spending time collecting victim badges. Ever dividing by race, gender confusion, etc. It really is about different sorts of power, of which force and surrender are usually least effective. Blog to follow.
And even by new gray beard is superior.
Thank a teacher, without their help you would not be able to use the internet.
Your function was to teach school subjects (i.e. stuff like maths, history, geography etc.)
Did you see yourself as a self-elected, smug, self-important, judgemental, Master, and these underlings were your Subjects.
Just wondering if they might see it like that!
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So I guess in your example he started it and therefore yes he had to take it - but I bet he wish he hadn't started it. If she didn't backchat every teacher she ever had, then I am as proud of her as you must have been
It appears no one or just a few have any tolerance these days.
"All too often insubordination is met by the police not with tolerance, but with lethal force."
It is evident from the videos that lethal force is use by police on the Black population.
It is evident from the videos that tolerance is use by the police on the Caucasian population.