During
my time going to school in New York City, I saw a lot of things.
However, I never once saw a teacher pull a kid to the front of the
class so the other students could berate him. I also never had a
substitute teacher show up drunk.
In Richardson Texas, Thomas
Brownlee arrived at school with liquor on his breath and, one assumes,
sadness in his heart. Another teacher figured out what was happening
and the drunken doof was removed from the class.
Once
you get past "wow, that's really terrible" and move on to "that would
make a great SNL skit" ("1+1 ain't 2! It's misery! You try being
married to that woman!" etc.), it makes me wonder how many times this
sort of thing has happened. In fourth grade, I remember...
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