A student called me a fucking cunt about 20 times today. (Am I allowed to publish that? I guess I'll find out if not?) Why did he call me that? I touched his arm to ask him to leave after he called another student of mine a "fucking faggot." I didn't know that student before today. He isn't a student I have in class, which is generally the kind of student I have trouble with. You see, I really can't seem to turn the other way when I don't like something. I don't like kids making out at school or doing drugs or swearing unnecessarily. And I'm not going to turn the other way. There were kids smoking pot in front of the gym the other day and I told another teaching, since I didn't know the kids. He just shrugged and said, "that's not unusual for that group."
What kind of world is it that as adults, we allow this. How can we teach children to function in our society if we allow them to do these things - to call unknown people fucking cunts, to full on make out in the courtyard, to smoke drugs in public areas. Screw grammar and math. How about societal functioning? Citizenship?
