I too think it is satire.
Very good satire.
On the other hand, going back to the late 1950's I heard words come out of my Aunts mouth that were very close to his .
In her second year at UNH she came home ranting that parents should be prepared to kill themselves and their children if the Communists took over. BETTER DEAD THEN RED she claimed.
And to top it off, this was in the days before Dr. Leary, Pot, or the Pill.
All I could get out of the good teachers post is that it is better to have mass pandemonium then an orderly retreat from danger. Teach the children they need to run at the first sign of danger, no drills to teach the kids to barricade the classroom doors and get under their desk, no details on where to meet up with others as they have in a fire drill.
This crazy idea that the people we intrust our children to should not use any and every devise they can to protect their charges is rather odd.
My kids had the NUNS from Hell as teachers and for all I knew they carried cattle prods under those robes, whats a gun compared to that ? These Evil NUNS would have given their lives to protect their students, in one really horrific fire in NY back in the 1970's they threw children out windows of burning school while all ablaze themselves.
The parents and the teachers were reading from the same book. Us parents never complained about how our kids were treated by the NUNS, we knew darn well this was part of their education also, to conform in some situations, no acting out, those tears just don't work.
Any kid that perchance decided to shoot up their school, would be dealt with by the NUNS before the police ever got there. The kids had a good healthy fear of their teachers and their parents.
The days of taking Johnnie to the wood shed are over, what does Johnnie have to fear now.?
While Little Johnny's parents are busy making Meths in the kitchen, Johnnie is free to move about at a very early age. Little Johnnie can read and knows the law, good Grief, a teacher has to spend hours a day with the little monster and he has the law on his side.
To get an insiders look at what teachers have to handle everyday, drive a school bus in down town Detroit. Darn you will want a gun under your arm, a crash helmet and a suit of mail.
This dude is unfortunately one who will be found in some alley one day, he must be a substitute teacher that does not know the charactor of the students. Has no connection to them or give a darn either way. He has never been jacked up by a home grown gang to alter test scores, never had to fear the children that will destroy his life.--He has no fear some 12 year old male or female will call the police on him for giving them a low mark on their grade's children claim sexual assult, they want an A+ or else.
They say one can take a horse to water but cannot force them to drink. :BS:
Take a kid to knowledge yet keep it just out of their reach and after awhile these kids will demand to be allowed to drink from the well of knowledge, fight each other to get one up on all their Buddy's.
Who the heck wants anything to do with kids today that have no control over them.?
Case in point, a man had a child for a neighbor who was called a special child. The boy was 16 and was taught at home. One night when the mans Mother was visiting she while in the shower saw this face in the window. She kept her cool and her son ran out and caught the neighbors son in the act of self gratification.
The police arrived and took the child off to jail. Now for the good stuff.
The boys family claim that the boy was walking through the back yard and saw the woman in full view taking a shower. The boy who has physical problems had an urgent urge to pee so he did so and was tackled to the ground and inslaved until the police got there.
Not the kids fault a woman of any age decides to get bare Ass naked and call his attention to it, he has a bladder problem, not his fault, he has problems brought about by some old lady that was taking a shower. Her fault for not blocking the windows that lead out to the forrest, she should have known that people would be tramping on the property late at night and become curious.
I have gone far afield with this random apologies to those that have read this far.
Bottom line is to arm all teachers and let the kids know their teachers will take you out if you give them reason.
