Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire My year of terror and abuse teaching at a NYC high school

And there in lies the problem. Liberals think that they can change the nature of these thugs whether they are felons in prison or the Ayatollahs in Iran - with kind thoughts and rainbows of happiness.

You put rabid animals down.

This culture of evil was created by welfare and it can be killed off by ending welfare for those who could work.

They created the thugs through LBJ's War on the Poor. The welfare system corrupts the soul when your able to work and instead choose to leach off society. They choose welfare rather than taking care of their families. They have children in order to increase their welfare checks and mistreat them so they can live better. They choose not to earn an education, not to work and not to obey the law. This culture of evil was created by welfare and it can be killed off by ending welfare for those who could work.

Not that I want to play sociologist here, but there is a more basic force at work in these lives.

Without solid parenting, these kids hit puberty without any built in restraint on their urges. I'm not speaking only of their sexual urges, but any urge.

For guidance, the 12-13 year olds look up to the 17-18 year olds who are smoking, drinking, screwing, fighting and drug dealing. That's the adult life they see. They go home, and Mama is off at the club - drinking, smoking, screwing and fighting - while grandmom looks after them.

That's the life. Run by bullies and dedicated to getting high and getting laid. Not much emphasis on education, not that math or literature will benefit them in getting high or getting laid, so why bother?

Their lives are run by one simple dictum - If It Feels Good, Do it!

Not that I want to play sociologist here, but there is a more basic force at work in these lives.

Without solid parenting, these kids hit puberty without any built in restraint on their urges. I'm not speaking only of their sexual urges, but any urge.

For guidance, the 12-13 year olds look up to the 17-18 year olds who are smoking, drinking, screwing, fighting and drug dealing. That's the adult life they see. They go home, and Mama is off at the club - drinking, smoking, screwing and fighting - while grandmom looks after them.

That's the life. Run by bullies and dedicated to getting high and getting laid. Not much emphasis on education, not that math or literature will benefit them in getting high or getting laid, so why bother?

Their lives are run by one simple dictum - If It Feels Good, Do it!

Not that I want to play sociologist here, but there is a more basic force at work in these lives.

Without solid parenting, these kids hit puberty without any built in restraint on their urges. I'm not speaking only of their sexual urges, but any urge.

For guidance, the 12-13 year olds look up to the 17-18 year olds who are smoking, drinking, screwing, fighting and drug dealing. That's the adult life they see. They go home, and Mama is off at the club - drinking, smoking, screwing and fighting - while grandmom looks after them.

That's the life. Run by bullies and dedicated to getting high and getting laid. Not much emphasis on education, not that math or literature will benefit them in getting high or getting laid, so why bother?

Their lives are run by one simple dictum - If It Feels Good, Do it!

We need to make the consequences of "doing it" be more painful than the pleasure of "doing it", and the consequences of not doing what is expected of them more painful than the effort it takes to do them.

I believe that your post is in the 10-ring.

I tutored "at risk" minority kids, all Afro-American, for awhile, but stopped when I finally realized that I cared about their success more than they did. Although I have no proof, I believe that the kids who I tutored were capable of academic success, they, as a group, just didn't view academic success as the road to a better life. I don't even know if they could envision what a better life would look like. It seems that academic success has a negative stigma in the poor Black community, in that a kid from that community who does well is "trying to be white". Heck, I even had one kid tell me that my "ride" was a POS 'cause I didn't have low-profile tires and 20" rims on it.

I knew that it was time to leave when the kids couldn't be bothered to do their homework assignments or even bring their workbooks, scratch paper, or pencils to the tutoring sessions.

I pine for the days when my shop teacher could stick a cattle prod on the ear ear of a sleeping student and the kid jumping awake wearing the desk around his waist.