Chick Fight in the Classroom
I love the concerned and professional tone with which CNN covers this “story.”
And if anyone has any doubt as to whether substitute teachers should carry tasers, there’s your proof. Marsha, is there really this much disrespect for elders in the Atlanta area?
For what it’s worth, from this video I’m convinced it’s not a wig.
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on June 1, 2008 at 3:56 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
Stone Mtn, no less. I watched it on local news and was aghast and not as entertained as I thought I might have been (because it wasn’t a wig?).
Times are pretty rough. Did you see another Adlanna video circulating Youtube a few weeks ago with a young, black girl terrorizing an old lady on Marta?
PITIFUL. All of it.
on June 1, 2008 at 9:24 pm Doug wrote:
Geez. No, I hadn’t seen it previously but have now: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rQWc3MWQxtU Not cool.
on June 2, 2008 at 2:23 pm ScottB wrote:
I was sstill trying to figure out which one was the student and which the teacher. Just in morbid curiosity as to who was winning the fight…
I just have nothing to say about that other video linked… ok maybe I do… stupid.
on June 3, 2008 at 4:09 am AUNT MARSHA wrote:
One of the reasons the Marta video intrigued (and disgusted) me is because the girl so reminded me of the thug I worked with and ultimately caused me to resign.
I worked with young women who FOUGHT regularly. I don’t mean argued or tussled, I mean had knock down/drag outs—every week or so–some at work. Girls fighting other girls –or men. One drop kicked a male supervisor and then went for his face with an upper cut when he reached down to cradle his cajones. I would listen to them discuss their fighting strategies! One of them said, ” I don’t wait for them to throw the first punch–or even wait for the fight to start. I go in before they’re ready and I go for the face.” Most are mothers of young children.
They would talk in …I guess you’d call it rap or hip hop talk. They would threaten other workers using a beat. Dancing out the lyrics of the litany. At first, I was really amused by this as it was so new to me. Eventually, of course, it was (the threats and taunts) turned on me when they realized I wasn’t just an unassuming old lady, bystander type, but, someone who thought their behavior abhorent and voiced my opinions loudly and in writing and formally submitted. (surprised I lasted as long as I did without a heave ho in the parking lot)
When did this …behavior begin? Is it primarily a black thang? Is it new, or has it just been that long since I had a job? Or, more likely–have I over trod my job arena and need to stay behind a phone and out of the proverbial minimum wage world? Uh…yeah! Like, get a real job, stupid! Is there no hope for me as, say…a referee?
ow!
on June 3, 2008 at 6:11 am Doug wrote:
Marsha, I think there’s much need for your refereeing skills these days, but that might be one of those things that society needs but doesn’t value enough to pay good money for. Like teaching, say. (Sorry, it fit so well.)
I must say, I read the comments on that Marta video, and the whole notion that that type of behavior is “mental illness” is something I have a very hard time taking seriously. She may be a mentally ill asshole, but first and foremost she’s an asshole. In my humble opinion, of course.