Reply #120

a disruptive kid. She said she was frustrated & spoke rashly & shouldn't have said that.

This is not a case of bigotry. This is a case of a bad kid driving a teacher to a point of frustration. It happens, even with good teachers, which is what she is.

It's hard enuf to get good teachers. We shouldn't be firing them for making mistakes, for gosh sakes. Or we won't have any teachers at all.

I'll tell my co-workers that they are discriminated against and held up to ridicule, like you said. They'll get a good laugh at that. Like I said, it's BEHAVIOR that is behind resentment. Not ethnicity. They could be black or asian or German or anything. If I moved, along with several million people, to Italy, entered their schools without learning the language, took jobs from Italians for less money, and they resented taht, would it be because I'm white or American? No, it'd be because of the behavior that millions of people are doing.