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September 17, 2006
Just Give Them The Old "Five Across The Eyes"
Students, as a whole, are a rowdy group of ungrateful little turds. There is no doubt that Professor Swissler made the wrong move in sending a nasty email to that group of students, especially when she had the option of resorting to physical violence. I mean, if you're going to perform an act which might get you fired anyway, why not go all the way and just show those kids whose really boss?
I had a Latin teacher in high school who jumped over a desk and slapped a kid right in the face, and let me tell you, for that last 30 minutes or so before he got canned, there was never a quieter, more well behaved class.
Let me regress. For the vast majority of you that probably didn't realize the above paragraphs were jokes, let me make my opinion perfectly clear: violence, whether verbal or physical, in Swissler's situation probably wasn't the way to go. She had other options, and she shit the bed, thus deserving to be fired.
What about in other cases though? Like all those smelly hippies out there that constantly quote "violence never solved anything!" It seems to me that violence has actually solved a whole lot of things. I mean where do you think we would be right now if our forefathers had sat down for a friendly game of parchesi to decide whether America got its freedom? Certainly not in a free country, since everyone knows no one can beat the English at parchesi.
What I'm really trying to say here people is that violence is like that answer you picked on all the questions you got wrong during the SAT's; it's right and it solves the problem, but there's probably another way that solves it just a bit better. Think about that.
Seriously, I should have my own show.
Posted by PaulCrossman at September 17, 2006 09:56 PM
Comments
"it's right and it solves the problem, but there's probably another way that solves it just a bit better." Nicely put!
Posted by: Cherie at September 18, 2006 12:21 AM
I liked the SAT comparison; it did make the sitation easier to understand. Nicely put, indeed.
Posted by: Katie at September 19, 2006 02:54 PM