Student Banned From High School Yearbook For Making Funny Face

To DAVE
Yes, "educators" are paid poorly. As a teacher, I put in well over "40 hours" a week. I take work home with me every single night and continue to do school work on weekends to make my lessons the best they can be to help my students be successful. I take offense to your comments that educators "sense of reality is so warped that they cannot perform any other tasks" and that we "punt" and get an education degree. It takes a person with lots of patience, kindness, generosity, discipline, and anything else you can name to be an educator these days. Each year the students come to us with less prior knowledge of basic tasks, less motivation to succeed, and less respect for anyone, including themselves. Some parents seem to think that thier only job is to give birth and let everyone else raise thier child. I see nothing wrong with the picture that this girl made for the yearbook, but I am a teacher--NOT an administrator. You seem to think that teachers have the final say and it's our way or no way. You're very wrong about that. Administrators (principals & superintendents) make those decisions. So, to say that educators have warped senses of reality---maybe it's you who does. You say that "dolts, idiots, and ideologs fill the halls of schools. How would you know? Are you there to meet each and every teacher? By the way, what your profession?

If it wasn't for teachers there would not be doctors,lawyers and engineers!

to scsmith: you may be an exception, but sadly dave is more right than wrong. You describe your work as a teacher, but what about others? I have a job that allows me to see thousands of schools and teachers a year across the country. (2-3 schools a day, always different) Sadly more often than not the teacher, and administrators fall short. There is little structure, little organization, and sadly it seems little learning. The focus seems to be on trivial matters instead of education. While this decision was an admin. decision, I also watch teachers fall short on a daily basis. Things may be different where you are but sadly that is the exception and not the rule.

As for banning the picture...that was a poor decision and hopefully it will be rectified, but sadly I won't hold my breath.

Hey, watch what you say about educators, jackass. We are some of the hardest-working, most dedicated, most compassionate people in this country. Have you ever tried to control a room full of 30 12-year-olds, all with different issues and at different learning levels, and made sure they were all learning all the time? I work 60 hours a week to make sure my kids are taken care of academically, not because I get paid to do it--I don't--but because I care that much. I am in this because I care about kids, and learning, not because I took the easy way out. Anyone who says teaching is the equivalent of "punting" should do my job for an hour and see how "easy" it is. And, based on your poorly written comment, you didn't pay much attention to whoever tried to educate you, which pretty much makes you a dolt, doesn't it? Don't talk about it unless you know what you are talking about--which, judging from your comments you clearly don't.

Hi I find it amusing that you claim Education to be a "punt." As a matter of fact I am an educator in Boston and I have a B.A. in History, an M.A. in History and an M.A. in Teaching History. So my friend I decide to give my time to the public in the hopes that this democracy will be able to function. Espeacially in a world that is looking increasingly bleak, considering people like you consider sharing knowledge to be a "punt."

smith... I think you took it a littler too personal. We all know there are still some great teachers out there like yourself. But the majority now days are just like what he was talking about. When people talk like that, they are just speaking about the overwhelming majority. Don't get too bent out of shape and thanks for still caring about your students... especially when their parents don't.

smith... I think you took it a littler too personal. We all know
there are still some great teachers out there like yourself. But the
majority now days are just like what he was talking about. When
people talk like that, they are just speaking about the overwhelming
majority. Don't get too bent out of shape and thanks for still caring
about your students... especially when their parents don't.

Who are you kidding,It's her yearbook,she paid for it not the school,or you.

So who gave the school this authority to make such a poor decision? Don't we have the right to petition for the removal of someone who makes such poor decisions? Quit talking and get to work! Make an example of the idiot who decided to pull her picture and let the majority see what an ass this school made of themselves.

She acted like a moron and should be treated as such

I don't understand why you think the picture was disrespectful. The girl was just showing her exuberant spirit. It is you who are disrespectful when you say that it seems like the school is run by former Hitler youth. You are throwing around very damaging accusations as if nothing were wrong with that. In this case, I think that the administrators acted rashly and that their idea of a student being presented in the best light really means that a student should conform. There is nothing that will kill initiative more than an administrator's demand that everybody conform and act just like everybody else. I hope this girl goes on to great success and that when she gives her Nobel Prize acceptance speech she mentions how certain administrators during her high school years tried to force her to fit into their idea of what a proper girl should look like. These are very petty people who discourage kids from even wanting to stay in school. I wonder this school's dropout rate is. In fact, I wonder if any of their students have distinguished themselves as a result of their administrators' support.

Commie Pinko Liberals? It's a Texas high school--wanna bet the school board's made up of Fascist Conservatives?

DJ said "you commie pinko liberal school officials are wanting control...control of eveything!!" James Madison High School is located in an area of San Antonio that is so conservative that it makes Rush Limbaugh look like a socialist. Before you spout off your lunatic rants you should do some research

Homeschool is looking better everyday!!!!!!!!!