So, which one of you contacted Dayton's principal?

I used to hate dealing with students cell phones. To me it just was not worth the trouble to enforce rules against them because EVERYONE has them now. If they didn't go off in class I could care less and even if they did go off a simple warning was enough.

But.

The states says students are NOT to have them in a public school. So after much resistance, I had to start confiscating them and writing up people who had them.

Are you giving me permission to do so, thus revealing where you work?

Not at all.

My finger is hovering over "Report Post".

Have you tried hitting them? Or did that not work with your wife?

That is way more trouble than its worth.

I'm only allowed to hit students if they are in full football uniform and then I rightly classify it as a teaching tool.

Smart schools find ways to take students' familiarity and comfort with technology and harness it in instruction.

Dumb ones try to ban it.

Smart ones follow the policies set forth by the Education Dept.

That would be fairly devilish of you after you explicitly requested me to post a link.

Dayton, we're all familiar with the "using the moderators as weapons" schtick, but you're not supposed to tell people about the trap until after it's been sprung.

He's pretty transparent.

Maybe if he had a better education he could drive a car still.

You've linked to your damn employment contract before. No one needs your permission to link to the student handbook.

I never encountered any of those, but your mileage may vary...

Really?

I don't find it very amazing at all.

And here's the fucked up part.

You left out the best part:

And just about everything has corporal punishment for the second offense.

Yanno, when I first read this, I thought about how glad I was that you took your parents' advice and [-]used college as an excuse to hide in the basement till 'Nam was over[/-] didn't join the military so there'd be one less arrogant bully NCO/Chief/officer whose behavior runs out the good folks that had the misfortune of working with them.

But then I was remember that you've managed to piss off every employer you've ever worked for, so whichever branch that would have been saddled with you would make sure you were sent packing well before you came anywhere near real responsibility. Sadly, the State of Arkansas has no such restrictions...

Without reveling any BR info, if Dayton's talking about the school he currently works for, teachers seem to be seen as little more than babysitters, and teach their students accordingly.

That said:

Somehow, I doubt Dayton is alone in being frustrated with the cell phone thing. These young kids nowadays act like they're glued to that shit...some of the ones on my last ship didn't even have the sense to [-]be discrete[/-] put the things away during battle stations drills, and they were in high school not that long ago. IT was pretty bad when I was in HS ten years ago, and the only thing you could do with 'em was text other people.

But Dayton still fails at life and doubly so for teaching.

Is it any wonder why Arkansas is openly mocked as not only a cesspit of humanity but also as one of the worst states for education?

Allow me to save you the effort by saying that since you asked for a link there will be nothing wrong with Chad posting a link.

http://www.augustasd.org/images/stories/docs/hs-handbook.pdf

And if one happens to wander around that website, take note of who is fifth from the bottom on the HS faculty page.

It's odd to think back to my school days. I was in school full time for 20 of my 32 years.

Sometimes I am so glad to be done with that part of my life. Other times, I miss it terribly. I guess I had a range of experiences, both positive and negative.

I look back fondly on my grade school years...
I hated my high school (although in restrospect it wasn't too bad)
I loved college and consider my undergrad years to be the best years of my life...
I hated dental school and couldn't wait to be done with it...

Out of all my former teachers and professors, the only one I still keep in touch with is my 8th grade teacher. She was my favorite and I have great memories of her.

My other teachers and professors through the years ranged from decent to utterly awful. Most of my dental school professors fell into the latter category...

I'm trying not to say anything mean about other posters but you're not making it easy, Dayton. I mean really?

Care to explain that one?

They need to fix "DEFINATIONS" on page 37.

Yuck -- I thought my district's salary schedule was bad.

Someone should call Dayton's boss and let them know a change needs to be made.

I'm really happy and not at all surprised that I make more than Dayton. I mean don't get me wrong, it's really sad that his school district pays so little to teachers.

Thanks for confirming.


Maybe next time don't give me permission.

As Bailey had already given the go ahead, I think it's appropriate to hand Dayton a warning for abusing the post report button.

I did not give you permission.

I challenged you to post a link and then warned you that I would notify the moderator if you did so and thus no permission was granted.

You want to post personal material to make a point.

Go right ahead.

But be man enough to take your punishment.

Besides which you posted information which if I'm not mistaken has never been posted by me at Wordforge even in the Diary thread. Thus you are guilty of revealing personal information that has never been revealed about a member.

It's only fair. The last time someone abused the report post button to erroneously report a leak of personal information, I believe Paladin had a meltdown.