It’s a regular day. I walk into the school late… that’s me. I hate this school; feels like a prison, no thanks to the cocky cop at the front door.
As I approach the bathroom that the pot heads use, I can smell them puff puff passing. Coming up the hall towards me, two more knuckleheads; why they are not in class, can’t tell you, but of course, they turn into the pot head bathroom.
Just as I pass the bathroom, I hear a huge argument, a fight breaks out and the pot heads fall out into the hall way. Suddenly somebody shouts, “He’s got a gun!” By now, the crowd is huge. From out of nowhere, Mr. Farquhar comes running up and squeezes two shots off from a revolver into the air, screaming, “Break it up!”
I’m stunned and all I can think is, Farquhar, has a gun, really? The next thing I know, one of the knuckleheads lounges towards Farquhar, tackles him and takes the gun.
By this time, the cocky cop from the front door is coming around the corner. The knucklehead has the gun and is distracted by cocky cop. Farquhar is up and grabs the gun from the knucklehead; his back is to the cocky cop, who comes running around the corner just in time to see the scramble for the gun and starts shooting.
Everybody is screaming, running into classrooms and/or hitting the floor. After the smoke clears, the only person left standing in the middle of the hallway is cocky cop. The only person shot – Farquhar. I’m told he passed in the ambulance, on the way to the emergency room.
Wow, what a morning, poor Mr. Farquhar. Then I saw the upside - no Physics test third hour!
Second Scenario: I just wanted some answers.
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It’s time for parent teacher conferences. For weeks now, I have been trying to get my son’s Physics teacher on the phone and I have been sending e-mails. For some reason, he hasn't responded. Nothing nada zilch. Maybe tonight I can get some answers.
The meeting starts out with the teacher being uneasy. I need answers, so I look past it and try to stay calm as I ask Mr. Farquhar why he hasn't responded to my requests for answers as to how he is dealing with my son.
Mr. Farquhar seems crazy flippant and I can see why my son is having an issue with him. I stand up, pushing back my chair and tell him that I’m not feeling his lack of response and I want to pull the Principal in on this discussion.
The next thing I know, Mr. Farquhar jumps up, pulls out a gun and says, “This conference is over, I cain't stand your ignorant a**, loud mouth son. Now, get your entitled, ghetto a** out of my classroom!”
Stunned, I put my hands up and back out of the room, thinking, “Damn how did it get to this?”
19 comments:
Coming soon, "Stand your Ground" ... The classroom version.
Let's see--many don't want their 2nd Amendment rights violated, but are there some rights that come into play for teachers who do not want to be armed? The whole idea is just plain stupid. I can't imagine how any sane person could believe that arming teachers is a good idea.
I wish they would just "arm" us with some back up from Wisconsin Avenue. If the kid has been suspended, it should be upheld. These students need to learn there are actually consequences for actions.
The minute they expect me to carry a gun in the classroom is the minute I stop teaching. I'm speaking as a teacher that had a gun pulled on them several years ago and my carrying a fun wouldn't have helped the situation.
I don't think teachers should carry; but there should be arms available in the event of a gunman entering a school.
One of the comments said, if she was forced to carry she'd stop teaching. With all due respect; this isn't about you. It is about protecting OUR children. It is morally incomprehensible to suggest our child just sit around and wait to be killed in the event a gunman enters one of our schools.
@ 11:30 p.m. Cameron said...
Maybe you should have put your kids in a good school where Mr Farquahar would have responded to your requests. That's how it works at my kids school.
And I hate when kids lounge for my gun. Little buggers.
Or, better yet, maybe you should stop being the problem. The problem being, the media and anybody with a keyboard sensationalizing the tragedy that occurred in Newtown. Go ahead and keep it up...your site will get a couple more hits. Maybe you can put some google ads off to the side (didn't check, maybe there already are) and make a buck off this tragedy.
What an idiot: "One of the comments said, if she was forced to carry she'd stop teaching. With all due respect; this isn't about you. It is about protecting OUR children."
It is INDEED about you and you and you. School isn't safe not because it's school, but because of nuts with guns. Putting more guns into school and then having gunfire over the heads of small children providing a teacher could out draw a nut, is the dumbest thing on the planet. Of course we should protect children. That is a given. More guns isn't the solution. The last thing I want is for some gun toting nut shooting up a school then having a teacher return fire over the heads of small children. Even if no children are hurt, they will need mental help for years after that. A solution is needed but it's not arming teachers or armed police in the schools. It's about kid parents raising idiots and a gun culture that says everyone should own a gun if they choose. I can't get my meds filled without a doctor's script but I can buy a gun and bullets at Walmart. Something is wrong here.
At some point we must stop reacting and realize the true state of our system of education. Though safety should always be a priority in our schools, it should not take a school shooting to help us realize the this fact. We demand our children to go to school in order to create better opportunities for themselves yet we fail to evolve their educational systems to fit their true needs.
The shooters go into the schools to die anyway. This situation will simply expedite the process.
@ anon that said it isn't about me on 12/26, you're right...I'd lay down my life as in throw myself in front of one of my kids. I've been assaulted by a student and had a gun pulled on me at school, but I would leave teaching before carrying a gun because that is a scary prospect. I call them my kids because my students are my kids and even after they graduate they're still my kids. They know it and I know it.
I have many of those kinds of kids, too. During my recent bout with cancer, they have been so good to me. Most of my years of teaching were spent knowing that someone might have a gun (and a few times someone did), but we just can't live our lives expecting bad things to happen--especially, since (in the scheme of things) they don't happen that often and when they do, they are usually very unexpected and of a nature that all our plans would probably have been to no avail.
I have taught school with security officers carrying guns for most of my years of teaching. This is all relatively new to suburban schools--which is why so many are overreacting now--they thought they were safe because there are no gangs or inner city problems in their schools.
As usual, knee jerk reactions. I don't believe anyone said that all teachers should/would be required to carry a gun. I don't think this is a good idea. Some teachers and support staff have military experience and/or are hunters. The idea of them being able to carry does not make them deranged killers. A large portion of the US has guns, hunts and has never committed any crimes. This last shooting is in part the stupidity of the mom, her child had severe mental problems so she teaches him to shoot and buys assaults weapons and gives him access to them. Same thing as Colunbine. Maybe yoga or meditation would be more appropriate. I would like to see stats on all the gun deaths in the US. I would think that most of them are criminals who have guns illegally. For about the last seven years in Peoria, their has been an average of two murders per month. For the most part they have been black on black shootings, and gang/drug related, in other words criminal activities. Don't kill the messenger for the message.
Why can't we all just get along? Schools are pushing for zero tolerance with bullying all the time. It needs to start with the leaders at 150 first.
As a teacher in D150, I find it ridiculous that when I try to exact some type of discipline on my students, I have parents RUNNING to Wisconsin Ave. to complain that I am being MEAN to their little darling. REALLY. I think that a parent that sends their child to school for months on end giving the child's meds to them sporatically, at best, should be a crime. I have a classroom full of students with SEVERE emotional problems(I am a regular division teacher), I DID NOT birth these children, nor did I raise them. I believe we need to start taking these children away from their parents. I believe these parents consider these children to be the "remnants" of philandering(being nice). They do not have the "emotional" equipment necessary to raise these children to become productive citizens. Open up the ophanages again. At least these children would get 3 meals, clean clothes, and a warm bed, which is MUCH MORE than some of my students get now. The Mayor has the Don't Shoot campaign, well, maybe we should have a Don't Parent campaign for these idiots that I deal with.
I remember hearing an African-American administrator in 150 say that they believed that in order to improve education that we needed to develop boarding schools in order for students to escape toxic environments at home. I'm sure that there is no funding for such a school but would find it interesting for all those who bemoan the decline of public education to pool their money to start some boarding schools as a possible solution to some of the issues.
Some people really shouldn't be teaching.
I know a white teacher who suggested some idea along the same lines. A few years ago Newt Gingrich (sp) suggested something comparable to orphanages. The idea might not be as absurd as it sounds--if the facilities were not a repeat of orphanages of old. Something has to be done to give some young people a more stable environment--but it has to be a caring environment, also.
I know that there are parents who don't know how to parent, etc., and that young people are being allowed too much power in District 150, but I still bristle when I hear a teacher calling a parent an idiot, etc. Even if you think it and even if it might be true, why say it--so doing reflects badly on all teachers and it doesn't help change the system. I know teachers feel powerless,
What do you call a person who grinds up their childs ADHD meds then snorts it? Give up? An idiot.
Double down, "teacher".
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