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1. As for any excuse to post: Don' let me get in your way! Tick! Be a good sportsman!  |
Hiya
I'd prefer not to be called tick if you don't mind. I don't like bloodsucking parasites. Still, it's better than Ballbag I suppose
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2. You have a problem with people being bigger than you and need a taser too? Everyone I know is bigger than me....so what?
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I am a westerner in Japan, which means
I am usually bigger ... bahaha. I get to breathe in crowded subways! I had one 11 year old who insisted on Sumo wrestling me. He didn't last long - but once I had him off balance I lowered him gently to the floor, then helped him up and exchanged bows as a sign of mutual respect. He has been good since then.
I didn't mean to imply that
I needed or wanted a taser. I was thinking of teachers in schools in high-crime areas.
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3. Maybe they need a talking to instead of a taser? You are teaching communication skills and how to live in society instead of jail or armed warfare no matter what the individual characteristics of your students are. Aren't you supposed to be able to outwit the snot-nosed craps anyway? Oh, I guess not everyone is not up to doing their job.
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A "talking to" works most of the time, and I do advocate that as you can see in my early posts. I was never advocating teachers using the taser as punishment, only to immediately stop violent behaviour. Punitive tasing is what I have been arguing against.
It was never about me. Anyway, I am teaching basic grammar and vocabulary, and mostly to adults.
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4. Fox news hasn't made fear right yet. Well, in all fairness, I don't know...I don't watch it.
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Me neither ... I've seen a few glimpses. I like you more.
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5. These kids are bigger'n me? Help?!? They don't like me...help?!? What if? What if?
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6. I never indicated that students are homogenized. Yet, students are students no matter what the circumstances, which is why they are called: Students.
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Your use of "the children" made it sound like a homogeneous generalization. So does your last sentence here. Sure, they are students, but they can also be criminals (allowing for age, ok, juvenile offenders).
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It's an idea tick. It's just not very well-crafted or planned out.
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True, it wasn't. So let me demonstrate my openmindedness by abandoning it. You'll notice it was suggested as a question in the first place. Matter of fact, I only put it there to distract Zippy.
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I have a lot great of ideas........but even that's not one of them.
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If you thought this was wacky ... you wait till you see what I will soon post in the parenting forum when I run out of other things to post.... bahahaha