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WAGGAMAN,
\n La. — A public school
\nteacher fed up with his students’ behavior found a way to berate them
\nin the context of a class assignment. The Jefferson Parish teacher
\nwrote and distributed a two-page essay to his fourth-grade
\n students saying he hated his job,
\nblasting the children’s “animal”behavior, and even identifying some of
\nthem by name.
Titled
\n“I Wonder Why?” the essay ended with an assignment for each student to
\nwrite a 200-word essay on how the teacher should treat them.
\n“Make sure you tell me why I need to treat you a certain way,” the
\nassignment reads. “I want to make sure that I no longer cheat and act
\nunfairly.”
In the
\nessay, the teacher detailed the loud, disobedient behavior of his students on a particular day
\nand how some ridiculed him while others accused him of cheating
\nfor a competing class during a spelling bee. The teacher said he was tired because
\npain from a root canal had kept him awake most of the previous night.<\/p>\n
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\nbreaking our cardinal rule to never blog about specific students, we
\ncan certainly say we have seen our share of “animal” behavior,
\nusually involving the ingestion of food or the excretion of bodily
\nfluids. Despite often having been insulted, frustrated to the
\npoint of tears or profoundly offended by student behavior, we
\nhave never lashed out in retaliation, either orally or in writing. Of
\ncourse, there was the time an entire class reported that “a dog had
\neaten their homework” which was rather strange seeing as they
\nwere all foreign students living in dorm rooms. We subsequently forced
\nthem to march down to the Student Center wearing their underwear on the
\noutside of their clothes, but we were tired because a massive
\ninadvertent dose of Methylenedioxyamphetamine had kept us awake most of
\nthe previous night.<\/em><\/p>\n
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