Future douchebag
Although technically, I suppose he’s already there:
We have a young female teacher new to the school. She is funny, lively, and quite the attractive young thing. Apparently, Mr. Lowjack in her class has noticed this, and has made a few comments. She was being tolerant, not wishing to appear to be one of those people who write up young miscreants at the drop of the ol’ pants, but…
The other day, he complemented her on her attire and then suggested she had gotten some of her jewelry at a Mardi Gras celebration. Think about this for a minute. You’ll get there.
On the way there, the thought might occur to you that this might be cause for suspension. Perish said thought:
So of course, that’s sexual harassment, and she did write up said miscreant. Here’s where it gets fun: the admin who is responsible for this alleged student basically gave him a slap on the wrist and is now putting pressure on her to allow him to remain in her class.
What does she have to do? Plant a butter knife on him?
Of course, the first time he tries this crap in Real Life™, he’s going to be frogmarched to the nearest emergency exit.
fillyjonk »
30 January 2010 · 10:06 am
I guess teaching college really is different. If a student had said something similar to me, depending on the situation, I would have either played ignorant and square (“Really? I’ve never even been to New Orleans. What could you possibly mean?”) to trick them into embarrassing themselves, or quickly come up with some kind of really stinging comeback designed to show him that age and treachery still beat youth and skill.
I will say I receive very little crap of this nature from students, and of that I am glad. It’s a lot easier to deal with the requests to hand in late papers or the “I missed class because my grandmother’s second cousin’s boyfriend was having surgery and I needed to be there at the hospital with them.”
Mark Alger »
30 January 2010 · 5:47 pm
Well, there’s two things to say about this:
1) and they wonder why some schools are virtually ungovernable with an attitude toward discipline like that…
and…
2) Whatever happened to zero-tolerance? Or does that only apply to aspirin?
M