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eye95 wrote:
"Always follow the instructions of your teacher ..." - "Always follow the instructions of a police officer ..." - "The Government is always looking out for you and acting in your best interest so you should always follow their instructions" .... I am just curious, are you a sheeple or a lemming? I will also bet that people like us on a message board/forum like this frighten you, don't we? Be very careful when you send your kids to college as they may run into a "radical" like me. Each week, I "undo" what society has "done" to my students in teaching them to become conformist, automatons. I teach my students to question authority and think critically (including picking apart what I say as their professor) and how to solve problems created by corruption, ineptness, and apathy.
Oh, it will also be comforting for you to know that I teach my own children these principles at home as well. Yes, they "follow the rules" - albeit not "blindly" - and discuss school, government, etc with me critically all the time. One of the big topics of discussion recently is how we will only answer 3 questions on the Census as that is all that the Constitution requires (Number in the house, age, gender) - wait until you see the Government response to this little bit of "exercising our rights/liberties. Here is one of my 3 year old daughter's videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
This Socialistic experiment promoting corruption, oppression, and tyranny that has been going on for the last 100 years is getting ready to fail. "We the people" have had enough ...
"It is amazing that imagination can survive a formal education" - Albert Einstein
eye95 wrote:
OK, let me be sure I am following you ...The rule may be as simple as, "Follow the instructions of your teacher." If a student refuses to follow the repeated instructions of a teacher, he is being defiant. I am sure he was not suspended for a single instance of defiance. No doubt a series of consequences were tried before resorting to suspension.
He wasn't suspended for making a gun with his fingers. He was suspended for defiance.
Again, if it is unreasonable for the teacher to ask him to stop, the teacher should be instructed to stop asking him not to make a finger-gun. If the teacher is operating within her autonomy, then the student should be punished if he defies her.
"Always follow the instructions of your teacher ..." - "Always follow the instructions of a police officer ..." - "The Government is always looking out for you and acting in your best interest so you should always follow their instructions" .... I am just curious, are you a sheeple or a lemming? I will also bet that people like us on a message board/forum like this frighten you, don't we? Be very careful when you send your kids to college as they may run into a "radical" like me. Each week, I "undo" what society has "done" to my students in teaching them to become conformist, automatons. I teach my students to question authority and think critically (including picking apart what I say as their professor) and how to solve problems created by corruption, ineptness, and apathy.
Oh, it will also be comforting for you to know that I teach my own children these principles at home as well. Yes, they "follow the rules" - albeit not "blindly" - and discuss school, government, etc with me critically all the time. One of the big topics of discussion recently is how we will only answer 3 questions on the Census as that is all that the Constitution requires (Number in the house, age, gender) - wait until you see the Government response to this little bit of "exercising our rights/liberties. Here is one of my 3 year old daughter's videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
This Socialistic experiment promoting corruption, oppression, and tyranny that has been going on for the last 100 years is getting ready to fail. "We the people" have had enough ...
"It is amazing that imagination can survive a formal education" - Albert Einstein