Well my cousin got kicked out of school today. He left his classroom and came into mine. He seemed to have a bone to pick with the guy sitting behind me. He came skipping in and said "Hi" and proceeded to beat him up, with markers in his hands to prevent his hands from breaking. Our teacher tried to break it up but they continued, they eventually got pushed into a lamp, breaking the (fluorescent) bulb in it and screwing up the lampshade, as teachers apprehended him, his necklace broke, spilling those little white "shark teeth" all over the floor. As the kid he beat up left the room, he was in the teacher's hands and said "You don't have to hold on to me, i'm not going to do it again." I'm scared of him now. I used to like to hang around him, but now, I want to be as far away from him as possible.
Little brat needs to go to the local detention home!
If that happened here in my district, they would be expelled district wide if I am correct. They have a zero-tolerance fighting policy, which people seem to not care about. In a way, the zero-tolerance policy annoys me. It's good for various reasons, but the district is way to uptight about the simplest things. I mean, seriously? They will get mad at you for the simplest things.
And while I am on the subject, I can't stand how the district also won't regulate the work load they throw at the students... which I have noticed to become a problem nation wide. I'd say that on average last year, i'd be assigned over 10 pages or math work alone... a night (maybe about 50 questions per page. 50x10=500, so 500 questions in math alone a night. That's a little too much in my opinion. Now, I can go on with this subject about the work load for a long time, but long story short... there needs to be limits on the work load. Just my opinion.
"The United States is among the most homework-intensive countries in the world for seventh- and eighth-grade math classes. U.S. math teachers on average assigned more than two hours of mathematics homework per week in 1994-95," said LeTendre. "Contrary to our expectations, one of the lowest levels was recorded in Japan -- about one hour a week. These figures challenge previous stereotypes about the lackadaisical American teenager and his diligent peer in Japan."
Source: Penn StateAs I would kill for that little amount of math work, I get more then 4 hours a night. So 20 hours of mathematics work per week for me, last year. I basically gave up on that class since I couldn't maintain a good grade in other classes...
Now I am sorry that I went a little overboard on that subject, but that's what I feel.
