Personally, I think a comma would be even better (it is, after all, a list of events), but not a colon. A semicolon would work, too, but I don’t think it’s necessary.
Really? Oh, thank all the ghods, Diogenes has spoken. We can all rest assured that there has never, ever been a parent fried by a kid who was pissed off at being disciplined, or that there has never been a teacher fried by a student who was pissed off for any reason.
You know, you might try finding out the truth about things before you post. I’ll give you an example that occured right in my own house, when my asshole stepson was wasted on drugs and took a swing at his sister. I decked him for it and the little shit called the cops. The only thing that kept me out of jail that night was the fact that I knew one of the cops that responded; he had busted my stepson once before and knew the story. His advice to me, given in front of my stepson, was (in effect) this: “If he pulls this kind of shit again, keep beating on him until we get here. We get way too many calls like this from shithead kids that are trying to get their parents in trouble for disciplining them.”
Now, Diogenes, you idiotic sack of shit - try telling us again about how “none of this is true”.
Nope, the colon is correct. What precedes it is the conclusion; what follows it is the rationale for the conclusion.
This** is** a whoosh, right? Please tell me this is a whoosh.
Clothahump, most teachers belong to a union. The union is not so good at getting better pay, but do a bang-up job at protecting teachers from this kind of garbage. In those places where teachers have no such protection, they may very well be that vulnerable.
no - many teachers do not belong to unions. There are a lot of “union free school districts” in this country, and many teachers working in those districts.
Actually, according to the federal government, more than half of schoolteachers are union members, so I think it is correct to say that “most” belong to a union.
Well now. When I was a teenager, I worked at a fast food restaurant. One of the managers had exceedingly over-friendly hands, which is to say, he groped the girls. He groped me, he groped my SIL who worked there, he patted butts…wasn’t much I could do about it, the restaurant was family owned. To me, it was ‘just the way he was’. I even told the other girls, new hires, not to take it personally because it was just the way he was.
Then op zetne day, one girl went home and told her father. Father came down and made a very, very big scene. Then there was a big investigation, and frankly, I’m sure the manager was guilty as sin, because I’d been on the receiving end of his hands plenty of times myself. He got savagely disciplined (but not fired - I don’t know why not) and I’ll bet he never touched an employee again.
Sometimes, the father is right. Sometimes, the teen girl isn’t just making up a story.
I would have felt the father in my story quite justified in punching this manager, because I knew perfectly well he was guilty…if not of harrassing that girl, then of a pattern of behavior.
As for the father in the news story? If it’s shown to be a lie, then make the liar face her own music. Publically. Even or maybe especially if it humiliates her.
This is completely immaterial to the issue of beating the guy up.
Don’t you get it? The question of whether or not it’s right for the father to go all vigilante is completely independent of whether the guy did it or not.
Firstly, the father has no hard evidence that it happened, so he’s assaulting the guy based merely on the say-so of a teenage girl.
Second, even if the guy did it, in a civilized society there are mechanisms by which he can be found guilty and punished. Assaulting him is not the answer.
Did anyone catch the father’s appearance on O’Reilly? I can’t find a transcript, only this summary from the website of The O’Reilly Factor:
Cardinal Fang! Fetch…THE COMFY CHAIR!
Oh, I get it. That doesn’t mean I (and probably every girl working at that fast food place, way back when) didn’t feel a little bit pleased to hear that somebody, finally, had made the manager keep his hands to himself. Okay, so it should have been done through legal channels. But at least it got done. Would legal channels have been better? Beyond a question. Did that mean we didn’t, or shouldn’t have, feel relief anyway? Nope.
The father who hit the man was wrong. I’m not disagreeing with you. That’s my logical mind. My emotions reserve the right to feel differently.
gurns The comfy chair?!??! :eek:
That doesn’t have any bearing, either. That you felt relief at his actions doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be punished. And as you’ve pointed out, the legal option would have undoubtedly been better - so by acting this way, the father was foolish.
This is a joke, right? Because while there are many school districts with “union free” in their names, I don’t think the name means that the school employees are not members of labor unions.
**NOBODY expects the O’Reilly Inquisition! **
I Finally found the idiot Radio station:
However, I remember Dearing criticized two radio stations for hailing Swafford as father of the year.
I wonder if the other station was 540 WFLA and Pat Campbell?
I just saw the clip, seeing the time line and how short the section was, I have to say that O’Reilly just dodged another pit thread just barely. It seems that the contradictory evidence from the video was pointed to O’Reilly just before the show, I’m 100% sure it was going to be a show that would defend the Father’s actions, but O’Reilly showed a Cardinal Ximinez like disappointment by saying “you are welcome to come back” to the Father and he said to Pat Campbell (Pat was in the show because he still is a defender of this yahoo) “follow the story and let us know how it turns out, we don’t want to see anyone get hurt at all.” :rolleyes:
Yep, teacher’s aides are made of rubber you know…
I’m still curious why the dad was “right to believe” his lying little brat?
Perhaps she hadn’t told him any lies before? Or at least, hadn’t been found out in any lies. I imagine if a daughter of mine claimed this, I’d believe her unless she had a long history of deception.
Having said that, his response was still way out of line.