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Big deal. In an upstate NY school the teachers shoot heroin. At least the beer-drinking teacher had the decency to resign, albeit while denying the accusation.
LOL, as if they're not doing that, and worse, at downstate NY schools.
ROTFMAO!
Mind you, I have very fond memories of my favorite teacher, Mr Hay, who used to read to us on summer afternoons with his feet on his desk and a cigarette in his hand.
I think the wise thing to do is overreact, declare that drinking on the job only happens with teachers and then mangle the statistics in an effort to declare it an epidemic.
Young people experiment with alcohol in part because the authoritarian mentality turns it into a "forbidden fruit".
Nearly fifty years ago, when I was growing up in a blue-collar community with a substantial "white ethnic" population, many of my classmates had their first experience with beer or wine at home -- to demonstrate both that it could impair your judgement, and that it didn't taste all that good to a lot of us. But we also got flyers (provided by the Pennsylvania Sunday School Association) lambasting the Demon Rum and threatening all kinds of catastrophe,
The people who'd been introduced to the substance at home didn't seem to have much trouble; it was those who were too strictly protected (myself among them; I narrowly missed a drunken-driving conviction at the supposedly-responsible age of 23) wh often ran into trouble a few years down the road.
One wonders how the teacher in question could not have anticipated the presence of a few hard-shell prohibitionists in just about any community; but the desire for structure, authority and power lies at the root of so many of the excesses which polarize our nation.
Young people experiment with alcohol in part because the authoritarian mentality turns it into a "forbidden fruit".
Nearly fifty years ago, when I was growing up in a blue-collar community with a substantial "white ethnic" population, many of my classmates had their first experience with beer or wine at home -- to demonstrate both that it could impair your judgement, and that it didn't taste all that good to a lot of us. But we also got flyers (provided by the Pennsylvania Sunday School Association) lambasting the Demon Rum and threatening all kinds of catastrophe,
The people who'd been introduced to the substance at home didn't seem to have much trouble; it was those who were too strictly protected (myself among them; I narrowly missed a drunken-driving conviction at the supposedly-responsible age of 23) wh often ran into trouble a few years down the road.
One wonders how the teacher in question could not have anticipated the presence of a few hard-shell prohibitionists in just about any community; but the desire for structure, authority and power lies at the root of so many of the excesses which polarize our nation.
I see your point.... in our family it was not the case (at least for my brothers and I). We grew up in a dry county in Kentucky and my parents didnt drink -- I never saw anyone actually drink in person til college. But I had no desire to try it as it was forced into my head it was evil and to be avoided.
But to get back on topic...hard to believe he thought this was a good idea or he wouldnt get caught. Obviously he has some issues so hopefully he gets some help.
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LOL, as if they're not doing that, and worse, at downstate NY schools.
OR the "poor man" has a serious drinking problem.
