Mr. Escalante was out of control! *spoilers*

How can I reech dees KEEEDS??

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Look behind you! A THREE-headed monkey!!!!!!

Agreed. It was simply too much effort to make minorities "normal".

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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. - David Hume

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during the summer is when you learn all the good 'night moves'.



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"Rue the day?" Who talks like that?

It isn't only the teachers. In California a lot of dedicated and effective teachers leave teaching because the administration above them only think of themselves and forget what it is like in the trenches so to speak.I was in first grade in Northern California in 1959/60. There were 36 students, one teacher and no aides. Special Ed was at another school exclusively. Disciplinary problems started out with writing essays about behavior at 200 words. You stood outside the principal's office during recess and lunch till you got it done. For serious infractions there was the paddle. I don't think the principals used that much. They preferred to use the writing method which the top number of words I heard about was around 5000. The parents were behind the students also and also the school. The kids got it at home also if they misbehaved at school. We learned and behaved. Nowadays many parents are for the kids only and will not back up the schools. Also the state has gotten into being advocates for the students. In some ways this is good but discipline went down the tubes because kids learned to scream "child abuse" and parents got scared the state would take away their kids. For some parents it was child abuse so no excuse there for those victims. Our teachers also believed in us. I didn't have but two ineffective teachers in the 12 years of grades 1-12. One was my 2nd grade teacher and the other was a substitute for 6 weeks (the infamous Jim Jones of People's Temple fame). Those were the years of dedicated teachers before the state started in to demoralize teachers and tell them what to do instead of letting the teacers actually teach. They loaded them down with documentation paperwork and left them no time to teach and work with the kids. They came up with so many statutes it was ridiculous. In one class I taught the kids the old tricks of adding and multiplying of adding zeros to multiplying any number ending in zero. I also taught them how to double check their answers by dividing and back checking their answers and the tricks with multiplying by 11. The next day the teacher told me that the state didn't allow those tricks to be taught anymore but on the other hand her 5 classes remembered those tricks and were using them. Sad but true in Southern California.