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Doug Hoffman: The Glenn Beck Candidate

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SanFranciscoZionist11/01/2009 11:59:34 am PST

re: #172 MandyManners

Did you have a bunch of Indigo Children?

That would have been its own kind of hell. No, we had kids from the Iron Triangle whose parents wanted to keep them safe, and we had wannabe gang groupies, and we had kids whose parents couldn’t shut up about their kid’s special needs, and we had kids whose parents refused to acknowledge that they had special needs, and we had kids who couldn’t read.

We had the OCD kid, the pregnant kid, the kid who was a perfect gentleman in my class, but had apparently been forcibly hospitalized for attacking his teachers in the past. We had the girls who told me that I was trying to get them to ‘not believe in God’ when I mentioned the word ‘science’ in the context of teaching about poor old Copernicus and Galileo. And the alcoholic kid, who was on parole, and the kid who set fire to the school building…

It was the staff that were hippies. Mostly. They mostly also quit when the going got tough, leaving me and a motley crew of survivors under the leadership if an egomaniac having a nervous breakdown.

I LOVE Catholic education. Charter schools are for the birds.