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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would tell my son not to let his mouth write checks he can’t cash. I teach high school and see this all the time - kid runs his mouth and catches the right one on the wrong day. Tell your principal I guess but first deal with your son who created the issue. [/quote]

Oh well if this is the attitude of high school teachers, it’s pretty easy to see why schools are a mess.[/quote]

Ma’am I can’t raise your kids for you. They’re teenagers when they get to us. We intervene in bullying but if a kid goes off and starts saying stuff that’s out of pocket and the other kids get pissed, what do you expect?? Obviously nobody wants to see a kid get hurt and hopefully the threats are empty but a kid who runs his mouth eventually will learn this lesson - for OP’s kid, maybe just because scared enough to believe them will set him straight. To be honest some of the “worst” incidents I’ve seen are kids who come at the kids who make fun of or victimize the students with special needs. They really take that personally.[/quote]

You are a nightmare of a teacher. Can you please consider another career path?

PS - condescendingly calling women “ma’am” is extremely rude and sexist. [/quote]

I’m actually a great teacher. What the hell do you want us to do?

Kid A mouths off 
We say stop 
He keeps going 
Kid B gets pissed 
We tell them both to calm down 
Pull kid A to hall to talk then possibly refer to counselor or admin or if they have access, school within a school 
Kid B at some point after this maybe makes a threat to kid A
Mom tells school 
We keep an eye out if admin filters that down to us 
Most likely nothing even happens but Kid A is now scared enough by the threat he stops running his mouth

You have no idea how many interactions like this happen each year. They’re teenagers. It’s not that we don’t care. It’s that it’s common and often self correcting. Like I said the only time I have truly heard of a kid getting beat up after one of those incidents was because he was absolutely bullying a kid with Down syndrome and one of the other kids had enough. He got suspended for it but he didn’t even care because he was that defensive of the student who couldn’t defend himself against a bully. [/quote]

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