I encourage this type of education. Kids need to be held accountable for their actions, just like everyone else.
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“unacceptable language”
i’d wager that this parent’s gripe is not about the word “bozo” but that their child’s behavior was criticized.
accountability is not abuse.
Maybe they're a family of clowns, and they consider "Bozo" to be a racial epithet against their people.
Maybe they're followers of a clown religion where Clown, Bozo the is considered a holy figure? It'd be like taking the Lord's name in vain!
Its gotta be this one. I’ve got three members of my family with registered clown personas, and they'd be happy as clams to be called bozo, but correct you to their actual stage name.
In what world is it OK to text a teacher? Like how does this person even know their teacher’s phone number? This conversation is exactly what parent teacher conferences are for.
The majority of my daughter's teachers in primary and middle school gave out their numbers. Not all, and it wasn't a requirement, but the majority.
Not that I ever used them. Teachers work hard enough, they don't need to be available 24x7.
That’s beyond strange to me. The only time I’ve ever used my personal phone for work purposes was the one job I had where they paid for it.
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I would be sooooo tempted to respond "well this explains where they get it from".
Expensive pirate school
That sounds like a fun career change, cool beards, getting to hang out in the Caribbean, chests of gold.
I’ll be joining the pirate school next semester
Yeah you thought I was joking. These are the assholes ripping your bosses boss off in the future. Even the pirates‘ clothing sucks nowadays. Burning beard? Best I can do is a fucking vape. And the worst part ? I went to a pirate school
Private schools are tough because you have to educate both the children and their parents
In public school, all the kids are smoking weed, and are chill, in private schools all the kids can afford and are doing coke, and therefore not very chill
How dare you try to humanise my horrid spawn!
Had to look up the derivation 'for fun'. - 1920, "muscular low-IQ male," originally appearing in boxing slang (compare bimbo).
Apparently the derivation goes back to vaudeville and stereotypes about immigrants:
"Bozo" was in fact a personal name among immigrants to the United States from Serbian and Croatian regions. It seems likely that vaudeville's Bozo originated from this immigrant name and stereotypes surrounding eastern Europeans (akin to the use of palooka to refer to an oafish boxer, probably related to the Polish name Paluka).
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wordroutes/where-does-bozo-come-from-lets-not-clown-around/
Its like when i was in high school when people would say "aww feck" and teachers would swear jar us, or tell us off. So everybody just said fuck instead, if your gonna bitch about us "swearing" and using alternate words to comply with your "appropriate language" we might as well make it worth the 25 cents
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Man. If my kids teacher ever contacted me like this, you can be damned sure my kid would be disciplined appropriately. Most likely a reduction of privileges until the teacher acknowledged that their behavior had improved. This kind of shit would never fly in my house.
Luckily my kids were all very well behaved and conscientious about their schooling.
I'm with you. Call my kids out if they are being dickheads. Call me if it doesn't improve - I'll set them straight
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The amount of parents that think that teachers owe respect to their kids above all else is infuriating. It's a real problem in Brazil, both in public and private schools
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Just gonna advocate for the devil on this one and say teachers shouldn’t be calling kids names.
I dunno man if a kid can’t handle being called bozo… it would be good to teach that kid to be more resilient.
Prob best not to call kids names, sure, but damn
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Just gonna advocate for the devil on this one and say the devil would advocate for calling kids names. Fuck those little shites.
I agree. I've had problems with this working for a school district, when a student was younger a nickname teachers and students called them was innocent enough, but as they are getting older they find it embarrassing and they have difficulty communicating on top of that, so it was a headache. the adults should stick to preferred names only.
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We pay a lot for this school
Then don't. Send your kids to public school. Just don't don't pretend that by paying for private school your child is somehow entitled to act the fool and not be held to account.
But who am I kidding. In the USA a lot of private schools work just like that: mom and dad's money is the worth of the student and they will be privileged accordingly.
Yeah, the teacher is going to get a fun talk with management and probably be forced to write an apology.
Teaching is a risky job these days, and thus not done as well as it could be in a world without parental bozos.
I couldn't be a teacher, because bozo would have been one of the kinder words I'd use in such a situation.
I can't imagine where he learned to be an entitled little shit…
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