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My kid got into trouble at school today

post #1 of 96
1/14/09 at 7:50pm
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...For playing "war" outside with his friends at recess.

He's in kindergarten, and only had to move his 'clip' from Green to Yellow (with Red being the pinnacle of badness), so I'm going to assume there were no casualties.
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post #2 of 96
1/14/09 at 7:58pm
He got in trouble with this? I'm guessing pretend guns were used? Was anyone throwing punches or something? Was he pretending to be a Nazi?

How I fear for my children (when my wife and I do have them)

Glad to hear there were no casualties.

The only time my friends and I got a "talking to" was when we'll play Ninja Turtles and our fake punches and kicks were a bit too close for comfort for the teachers.
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post #3 of 96
1/14/09 at 8:34pm
Those damn liberals!
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post #4 of 96
1/14/09 at 9:22pm
I mentioned a few months back in a different thread that my older brother teaches outside DC.

Apparently he has to write a dissertation for his superiors whenever he deems it necessary to give one of his students anything less than an A-.

One of his colleagues saw him writing an "87" on someones test and told him he better be ready to get a call from the students parents complaining.

This country has gone to shit.
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post #5 of 96
1/14/09 at 9:35pm
The game was actually War Zone and he tossed another kid into a glass crusher.
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post #6 of 96
1/14/09 at 9:44pm
That disgusting movie is Poisoning our youth.
Urban freeflow gangs are popping up all around the country!
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post #7 of 96
1/14/09 at 10:07pm
Doors and stairs are ANATHEMA to them, I say!
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post #8 of 96
1/14/09 at 10:56pm

Put down the gun, and let the marching band go. We'll play it off as a prank.
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post #9 of 96
1/14/09 at 11:16pm
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Originally Posted by The Closer View Post
I mentioned a few months back in a different thread that my older brother teaches outside DC.

Apparently he has to write a dissertation for his superiors whenever he deems it necessary to give one of his students anything less than an A-.

One of his colleagues saw him writing an "87" on someones test and told him he better be ready to get a call from the students parents complaining.

This country has gone to shit.

hum yeah, its like those little league games where the score is not kept. Every parent is looking to "protect" their child.
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post #10 of 96
1/14/09 at 11:35pm
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Originally Posted by Rob Rocco View Post
...For playing "war" outside with his friends at recess.

He's in kindergarten, and only had to move his 'clip' from Green to Yellow (with Red being the pinnacle of badness), so I'm going to assume there were no casualties.
Rob, I'd be honored to let my little monster play with yours. Together they can take over that pussy ass school in no time.
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post #11 of 96
1/14/09 at 11:52pm
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Originally Posted by Luca S. View Post
The game was actually War Drobe and he led the other children into fantastical lands.

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post #12 of 96
1/15/09 at 4:46am
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Originally Posted by Luca S. View Post
The game was actually Race Wars and he reenacted Helter Skelter.
I can see the trouble with this.
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post #13 of 96
1/15/09 at 11:02am
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Unfortunately they say he was teaching them to play GWAR by "corrupting" his playmates with his "Cuttlefish of Cthulhu".

Seriously, I'm still waiting to hear the full story.
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post #14 of 96
1/15/09 at 11:08am
Did he simulate the Abu Ghraib scenario with the other kids?
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post #15 of 96
1/15/09 at 11:34am
There are school districts here in Florida where teachers are not allowed to penalize students for handing in assignments late.
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post #16 of 96
1/15/09 at 11:49am
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Originally Posted by Rob Rocco View Post
He's in kindergarten, and only had to move his 'clip' from Green to Yellow (with Red being the pinnacle of badness), so I'm going to assume there were no casualties.
What the hell is this clip?
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post #17 of 96
1/15/09 at 12:16pm
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What the hell is this clip?
Maybe a gun clip. When it gets to red, the ammunition can finally be fed into the gun, then the teacher is allowed to shoot him? That'll teach him to play war!

We played all kinds of stuff like that in elementary school. TMNT, GI Joe, Transformers, etc. with battles galore. The only time there was trouble was during a game of tag where a kid went head first off the top of a pole slide (he kinda forgot the pole part). Blood everywhere. He was ok, though.

No more tag after that! We had to go back to playing war. Ah, the good ol' days!
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post #18 of 96
1/15/09 at 12:29pm
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Imagine a large picture of a traffic light. All the kids in class have a 'clip' with their names on it, and start each school day with their clip attached to Green.

"Unacceptable/disruptive/anti-social" behaviour results in a warning. If they continue to misbehave after a first warning they must move their clip to Yellow.

Then, for example, telling the teacher to "bite me" results in a move from Yellow to Red, whereupon the student is placed in 'time-out' and must write (or draw) what they were doing when they got into trouble. Then, on the same piece of paper, write (or draw) how they should have behaved. This paper is sent home to the parents for signature.

At home a photocopy is made and preserved for posterity.
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post #19 of 96
1/15/09 at 12:35pm
So it's kinda like the Terror Level that you guys had before, right?
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post #20 of 96
1/15/09 at 12:37pm
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So it's kinda like the Terror Level that you guys had before, right?
Awesome.
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post #21 of 96
1/15/09 at 12:41pm
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The game was actually Reservoir Dogs and he was pretending to be Mr. Blonde.
Only if he had "Stuck in the Middle with you" playing would it have been worth it.
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post #22 of 96
1/15/09 at 12:52pm
That's it, I'm homeschooling my kids. I don't care if it makes em weird, at least they'll be able to stand on their own two feet when they hit the real world.
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post #23 of 96
1/15/09 at 1:03pm
The game was actually "Rock'n'roller Cola War", but your son didn't start the fire. It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'.
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post #24 of 96
1/15/09 at 1:18pm
The game was actually Warhammer 40K, and NERD ALERT.
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post #25 of 96
1/15/09 at 1:32pm
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Originally Posted by Rob Rocco View Post
Then, for example, telling the teacher to "bite me" results in a move from Yellow to Red, whereupon the student is placed in 'time-out' and must write (or draw) what they were doing when they got into trouble.
Hahaha! "Draw"??? That's the punishment?

I once got punished by a teacher for drawing during class (I still do this in meetings). She noticed I was drawing robots and told me do draw 100 robots during recess. I was supper happy, I drew everything from R2D2 to Megatron, had a blast of a time.

I can only imagine the fun I would have drawing up my adventures at school and then show them to my parents.
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post #26 of 96
1/15/09 at 1:44pm
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica View Post
She noticed I was drawing robots and told me do draw 100 robots during recess.
Exactly how long was your recess? Conversely, how crappy was your artwork?
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post #27 of 96
1/15/09 at 1:57pm
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Hahaha! "Draw"??? That's the punishment?
Lisa and I had a good laugh about that 'punishment' too. He loves drawing! Every assignment he receives in class has pictures of Star Wars, pirates, knights and dragons drawn on the blank side of the paper.
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post #28 of 96
1/15/09 at 1:59pm
Awesome. Keep encouraging that. I used to draw the whole day at school, really makes for good practice and teaches you to pay attention to boring people while having fun.
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post #29 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:02pm
Drawing would have been the most badass punishment ever. All I got was detention with Sister Mary Shovelface, and then just detention when I moved to public school.
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post #30 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:03pm
Hell, we used to have rock fights at school during recess. This is absurd.
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post #31 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:07pm
I can only imagine the cutthroat games of dodgeball we played in elementary school would result in criminal charges today.
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post #32 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:11pm
I'm with you on that, Richard. Dodgeball and Kill-the-Carrier were staples of my childhood as well.
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post #33 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:16pm
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Exactly how long was your recess? Conversely, how crappy was your artwork?
I don't think it was that long, I think she extended a bit into classtime.

It wasn't that bad, I exhausted all the Star Wars stuff from the beginning and I think I moved into dozens of variations of Mazinger Z (Tranzor Z for you folks). It was quite fun.
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post #34 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:20pm
I got in trouble for singing "I feel good" in the cafeteria. I also got in trouble for (get this) switching tables at lunch. Apparently you're supposed to stay at one table, and if you move to another at all, it's anarchy. Sit down, don't move and shut up, kid.

Then I hear about this stuff from you guys about teacher's not be allowed to give less than an A- and not penalizing students for turning in stuff late.

Why does it have to be one or the other? Why does it have to be either psychotic super stern asshole-ness or mamby pamby don't hurt the child's self esteem shit? Can't we strike a happy balance between the two?
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post #35 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:21pm
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Kill-the-Carrier
You mean "Smear the Queer", right? Looking back, I wish that we would have gotten our asses kicked for calling it that.
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post #36 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:22pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
I can only imagine the cutthroat games of dodgeball we played in elementary school would result in criminal charges today.
Yep. We used to play a game called wall ball that was, essentially, an excuse to peg your friends with a tennis ball as hard as you can.
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post #37 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:22pm
Kill-The-Carrier was better known by the less appropriate Smear-The-Queer in my day.

My son has also got into minor trouble for pretending to have a gun at school. I'm not too worried about it, but current educational institutions have a real hard spot with guns, so he'll have to keep those thoughts at home. I played with every violent toy ever, and toy guns back in the day weren't bright orange. I don't own a gun, and I don't want to. Linkage, schminkage.

Boys like guns, no big deal.
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post #38 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:25pm
'Kill-the-Carrier' was what we always called it, but yeah...it's the same thing:

1. Beat the shit out of the kid that has the football until he passes it to the next guy.
2. Repeat step 1.
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post #39 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:26pm
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I also got in trouble for (get this) switching tables at lunch. Apparently you're supposed to stay at one table, and if you move to another at all, it's anarchy. Sit down, don't move and shut up, kid.
I got a demerit for this in middle school! I swear to God. Such a useless rule.
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post #40 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:28pm
Can 5th graders still get away with forcing 1st graders to eat tanbark?
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post #41 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:36pm
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Can 5th graders still get away with forcing 1st graders to eat tanbark?
or give them swirlies?
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post #42 of 96
1/15/09 at 2:40pm
As I recall the choice was either eat the tanbark or kiss me on the mouth.
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post #43 of 96
1/15/09 at 3:22pm
I have no idea what tanbark is but all this talk reinforces what I remember Del Toro saying on the Devil's Backbone commentary. That elementary school is escentially prison and that little kids can be violent vicious bastards.
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post #44 of 96
1/15/09 at 3:35pm
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Think OZ...with snack time.
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post #45 of 96
1/15/09 at 3:53pm
and people say school vouchers are a bad thing. Sure some kids are going to get fucked over by a voucher system, but most of those kids are all ready fucked over by having the parents that they have. You can not save them all. All you can do is save the ones you can save.
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post #46 of 96
1/15/09 at 3:57pm
Sgt. Rocco
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post #47 of 96
1/15/09 at 4:26pm
Jesus I wish I could have been drawing when I got into trouble. They would force us to stay inside and do work on the class you have the lowest grade in during recess for punishment. Being threatened with 45 minutes of math instead of four square was enough to keep me mostly on the straight and narrow.

My 5th grade year they took away our flags for flag football because some kid got his nose busted open. They let us keep the football so we could play catch. Of course, all we decided to do was play tackle football since we had no flags. Lasted one day. Teachers flipped out that we would play tackle football, nevermind the fact that almost every single one of us was in the local football little league that was full contact, tackle, murder the asshole kid from lunch.
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post #48 of 96
1/15/09 at 4:35pm
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You mean "Smear the Queer", right? Looking back, I wish that we would have gotten our asses kicked for calling it that.
My best friend broke his leg in 6th grade playing "Smear the Queer". Karma.
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post #49 of 96
1/15/09 at 4:43pm
We always called it "Kill the Man with the Ball". We preferred a literalist approach.
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post #50 of 96
1/15/09 at 4:53pm
This is a great thread.

Seriously... I love it.
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