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School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: Jack Date: January 22, 2019, 5:19 pm
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I've been putting this off for too long, and I decided I needed
to make myself do this. Today is 22 Jan 2019, so it's the first
day of the third week of the new semester (no class yesterday,
for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
I had one pretty interesting incident the first week of classes.
Remember, this year, the first semester ended when our
Christmas vacation started, so grades were available back then.
One of my second period students (which is challenged middle
schoolers), Lucas M, who is a 7th grader, had done well in the
first two six weeks, but he tanked in the third one, badly
enough to draw his grade As in the first two periods down to a
low B. I don't know the entire story, but his father set up an
appointment to discuss whatever he was told with me after school
started back this month.
Lucas had tried to make it seem like his grades had dropped
because I was out to get him or ignoring his treatment plan or
something. Because one can now buy a 128GB flash drive for
about 20 bucks, I keep pretty accurate records, including scans
of stuff I don't keep. That means it wasn't hard for me to
demonstrate that the actual problem was Lucas turning in lazy
work that wasn't up to standards, and occasionally incomplete
work.
This meeting was in my class room, after school finished (I had
to go back for the meeting that day). After establishing that
Lucas had lied, and with my permission, his father had Lucas
stand and bend over one of the class desks, while Dad removed
his belt. Lucas received 8 strokes across the seat of his
trousers, which was still enough to have him hollering out and
crying a bit. His father and I talked out a few things, while
Lucas recovered, and then we set up a system to help him keep
his homework done, and keep his parents up on his grades.
[hr]
The second was even more interesting (for me). While I didn't
know these boys, they had been sent to the office for fighting,
and one of them was a discipline problem (transfered in to BCA
after being suspended and sent to Disciplinary Alternate
Educational Setting. The two boys were 9th graders (though the
suspended boy is repeating). It was pretty obvious that neither
of them were innocent, and parents for both boys were called in.
I was called in to witness for several reasons (normally
witnesses aren't required when parents are there, but they
wanted to double the paperwork trail in this case). The younger
boy received six swats bare, which tore him up pretty bad. The
older boy (who was the previous discipline problem) received
nine, and he only got off that lightly because he's actually
been pretty well behaved since he started here, with this being
his first trouble in ... several months?
Neither boy was particularly good looking, but neither was bad
looking either - both kind of average. The older boy was
actually a bit shorter and more youthful looking, so it was
really kind of nice from my POV.
[hr]
A third incident happened today. I was called in to witness
again, as I was leaving. A 7th grade boy (one I only vaguely
know and haven't had in classes), had been sent to the office
for disrupting class. This is the second time this semester, so
he received three swats with his pants down (on underwear), and
he was wearing Hanes - very cute. He managed not to cry, but he
still howled when the second and third swat landed, and I think
he only kept from crying by the skin of his teeth. He's been
promised a parent conference if he's sent back for the same
offense over the rest of this six weeks.
[hr]
As you can see, incidents of paddlings (with my involvement at
least) are way down. I think most of that's due to the new
associate principal position, and there just not being as much
slack for me to take up.
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Re: School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: db105 Date: January 22, 2019, 7:28 pm
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I'm surprised Lucas had the cheek to confront you at the
parent-teacher meeting and lie about you. Naughty boy!
What was the fight between the two nine-graders about?
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Re: School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: Surfer Date: January 22, 2019, 9:20 pm
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Regarding the third one. Were the Hanes tighty whities?
#Post#: 11284--------------------------------------------------
Re: School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: Jack Date: January 23, 2019, 4:08 pm
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[quote author=db105 link=topic=1098.msg11272#msg11272
date=1548206939]
I'm surprised Lucas had the cheek to confront you at the
parent-teacher meeting and lie about you. Naughty boy!
[/quote]
Lucas did not confront or lie to me. He'd lied to his dad about
why his grade had gone down, trying to make it sound like I
hadn't been accommodating his learning plan. I don't know for
sure, but I rather assume he thought/hoped his dad wouldn't
check on it or might even forget over the holidays.
[quote author=Surfer link=topic=1098.msg11273#msg11273
date=1548213643]
Regarding the third one. Were the Hanes tighty whities?
[/quote]
Yes.
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Re: School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: db105 Date: January 24, 2019, 1:56 am
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[quote author=Jack link=topic=1098.msg11284#msg11284
date=1548281296]
Lucas did not confront or lie to me. He'd lied to his dad about
why his grade had gone down, trying to make it sound like I
hadn't been accommodating his learning plan. I don't know for
sure, but I rather assume he thought/hoped his dad wouldn't
check on it or might even forget over the holidays.
[/quote]
But Lucas was there in the meeting while his dad asked you about
it?
#Post#: 11311--------------------------------------------------
Re: School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: Jack Date: January 24, 2019, 2:02 pm
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[quote author=db105 link=topic=1098.msg11299#msg11299
date=1548316586]
[quote author=Jack link=topic=1098.msg11284#msg11284
date=1548281296]
Lucas did not confront or lie to me. He'd lied to his dad about
why his grade had gone down, trying to make it sound like I
hadn't been accommodating his learning plan. I don't know for
sure, but I rather assume he thought/hoped his dad wouldn't
check on it or might even forget over the holidays.
[/quote]
But Lucas was there in the meeting while his dad asked you about
it?
[/quote]
Yes. I would guess that he was just in too deep, and hoped I
wouldn't be able to provide in depth answers after the
Christmas vacation. Or maybe - as Kat has said before - he was
just hoping one of us would be struck by a meteorite before the
meeting ended.
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Re: School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: Zyngaru Date: January 24, 2019, 2:36 pm
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[quote author=Jack link=topic=1098.msg11311#msg11311
date=1548360160]
Or maybe - as Kat has said before - he was just hoping one of
us would be struck by a meteorite before the meeting ended.
[/quote]
Yep. I have prayed for such a miracle before. Didn't happen.
I got my butt busted.
#Post#: 11872--------------------------------------------------
Re: School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: Jack Date: March 1, 2019, 5:26 pm
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Gave a pretty good spanking at school yesterday (Thursday,
2/28).
I was leaving yesterday, when the receptionist asked if I can
handle a matter. I believe that Mr. Sanders was having lunch
with a trustee, and Mr. P was meeting with the family of a
potential new student. The boy's mother was in the office with
the boy, but she'd arrived after both principals had left.
The boy's name is Bobby Hatcher. He's a fifth grader and
friends with Glenn. He's already 11 years old, so a bit older
than Glenn.
Bobby's father is an airline pilot. They only moved to Bransom
last summer, and it seems like he (Bobby's Dad) is fairly new
with the company, so he sometimes has to take longer,
international routes where he ends up gone for a week or more.
That's not too common, but it's apparently not rare either.
That's a problem, because Bobby's dad is the main
disciplinarian. When he's home more or less every night, it's
not a problem. When he's gone for several days or more,
apparently Bobby has realized that Mom won't report him to Dad,
if he gets in trouble those first few days, so he's grown used
to taking advantage of that. And yes, Mom told me all this -
she's apparently aware that she's pretty much a pushover when it
comes to disciplining him, at least if she can't handle it right
then.
Bobby had been sent to the office for disrupting class. In
fifth grade, they spend most of their day with one teacher
still, and he'd apparently been called down more than once for
talking, as well as passing notes, and getting out of his chair
without permission while the teacher was talking, which was when
he was sent to the office. While Bobby has been in trouble a
couple of times previously, I think there was probably a note in
his file to call a parent. I would have said his behavior
called for a pants down paddling, not a parent involved session.
Bobby was pretty obviously uncomfortable while his mother was
explaining some of this to me, and while we discussed his
previous troubles. I sent him in the hall so we could discuss
appropriate correction. You could tell he was pretty darned
nervous when I called him back in. He nearly started crying
when I pronounced sentence.
We got down below freezing yesterday, and Bobby was wearing the
light gray, long-sleeved, pullover sweater, over a white button
down and navy sacks. I made him fold the sweater up a bit,
then he had to drop his pants. He was wearing a belt, and after
undoing that, he didn't even have to unbutton the pants to slide
them over his non-existent hips. He was wearing white Hanes
briefs, and those came down as well. The slacks actually slid
down below his knees, but he only pushed the briefs about half
way down his thighs.
His mother had actually been feeling much more strict with him
than I had, and he ended up starting out over my knees, and
getting enough of a hand spanking to have him sobbing pretty
hard and crying a bit. Then he had to stand up and lay across
the foot stool to get five swats with one of the smallest
paddles. That was still enough to have him howling and bawling.
Bobby was NOT feeling very shy right about then, and he took a
few minutes to rub and make use of the Kleenex I gave him,
before he put his clothes back in order. While he was doing
that (and crying) his mom and I talked a bit. I explained that
Glenn is my grandson, and that I have a son a year younger, and
that I almost always have boys hanging around the house, so if
she needs some space while her husband is away, she should feel
free to call.
I got a pretty good look, and Bobby looks like he might be
experiencing the first edge of puberty, but he's basically still
a little boy. He has dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and a kind of
tan to his complexion. He's probably only average looking, but
he's very cute for my tastes. His mom is considering attending
our screening of Captain Marvel next week, so it'll be
interesting to see if we see him again soon.
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Re: School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: David M. Katz Date: March 1, 2019, 5:50 pm
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Perhaps Mom will call on you if needed when Dad is out of town?
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Re: School Trouble - Spring 2019
By: Zyngaru Date: March 1, 2019, 9:21 pm
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Another boy for Jack's collection. Like bees to honey.
I also suspect you will be seeing more of Bobby.
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