Classroom Bullies

 Unhinged Attack on Child

A million years ago, my elementary school had each grade divided into two classes.  My Fourth Grade year, one class had an incompetent, and the other had a bully.  I landed the incompetent, which was fine with me because it meant I got to write my own curriculum all year, and since I'd already been helping Mom with curricula and lesson plans for a few years by then, I had a pretty good idea how to do it.  I knew I did NOT want the bully.  A year later I had her on my paper route, and that was more than enough.  I knew that if I was in her classroom, she'd start in on me, and when she did, one of us was going to the boneyard, and it twarn't gonna be me.

A number of years later, my grandmother informed me the bully had died.  I responded, "Good riddance to bad rubbish."  Grandma was shocked.  She asked how I could say that.  I said, "Simple.  She was a cruel, nasty bully who's finally being taken down the six pegs she's always needed taken down."

This was, and continues to be, a major problem in US elementary schools.  The teaching corps remains overwhelmingly female and so is undersupplied on both the respect and pay fronts.  But a ridiculous percentage of them does not have a substantive degree (Elementary Education does NOT count.), and so lack leverage to demand more.  Most simply shuffle along, teaching the nothing they have the training to teach (Reason No. 6,000,012 Johnny can't read.  Or math.  Or science.  Or history.  Or, or, or.).  Some, though, get really resentful and start acting like they graduated from the Nurse Ratched School of Pedagogy.  That was Fourth Grade Bully.

And it also appears to be Virginia Foxx.  She apparently was once a teacher, probably both incompetent AND a bully.  And now she does this, which is just par for the course.  And there's really only one thing to be done with a rabid Foxx.  You Ol' Yeller them.