Jackson Jambalaya

So true....no accountability.

So true….no accountability….and no sense or acknowledgement that any is even necessary.

When I was at Bailey Jr. High for gym class we had Coach Stowers.
Coach Stowers kept in his back pocket a thick, black plastic handle
with a piece of a fan belt attached to it with electrical tape.

You got very familiar with it if you behaved questionably.

We need Coach Stowers back..or people like him!

Got that down pat. Good video.

My wife is a middle school teach in Madison County, and this is totally accurate. She has been cursed by a parent who believes her baby can do no wrong.

My children envied the kids that got hit. It was over fairly quickly.

Having to do manual labor or lose privileges was far worse but, more importantly, first they had to learn why their behavior was dysfunctional to all concerned.


The violent kids have already learned violence for control and punishment at home and neglect in their development at home.

Turning teachers into bullies by using physical harm as a threat is how bullies learn to bully others and why less perceptive children learn only how to use violence to control others as adults. Like at home, it's quick and requires no investment of interest in the child or time by the teacher.

And, getting attention, even negative attention, from adults is the "thrill" for the child. They manage to upset an adult just like adults in their lives had upset them or they have evaded adult notice and gotten "by" with bad behaviors.

But,this stuff requires adults to think and do rather than just be emotional reactors in their lives. Exhausting to be so "worked up" all the time. Aren't you tired yet? And worse, it's likely you won't get to retire from parenting with full benefits.

As a teacher at Clinton public school this is typical of a new family to Clinton public schools that came from a JPS school. Mom mad I made her daughter take a test on her birthday and another mom mad her son gets homework almost every weekend. Clearly JPS is very different than Clinton schools.

!0:23. "..they had to learn why their behavior was dysfunctional to all concerned." Hahaha! The willow switch and leather belt really shortened our learning curve to be in the the immediate moment.

Much of your unique phrasing and terms gives us a glimpse of your hidden PHD. Hope your not-so-subtle attempt to tell everyone else how wrong they are with their parenting styles makes it in to your upcoming instructional books.

10:23 in some ways you’re right but in some ways you’re wrong. When we lose discipline in school is when you have other students not being able to learn and that’s a problem. I know public schools are being softened and I’ve heard from a family member who has 4 students at a certain private school in Jackson that by allowing students with “scholarships” to enter their doors has caused disruption in learning and of slowing down the learning process. The teachers are warned not to discipline the “scholarship athletes” yet all the while bearing down hard on the students who pull their weight in class and who are disciplined. You get the picture. It has nothing to do with bullying. It has to do with color of skin.