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June 19, 2007

My mother, a thirty-five year veteran of the Indiana public school system, continually tells me that today's children face pressures her generation never experienced at such a young age. ATF - not the federal agency but alcohol, tobacco, and fornication - appear to be serious problems for many instructors and administrators in the secondary education arena these days.

And don't forget the ubiquitous demand for academic excellence. Apparently unwilling to disappoint his parents, a German tenth grade student recently conspired with two other students to threaten his teacher with a "steel rod" in order to steal her briefcase he believed to contain report cards. Unfortunately for anxious lad the whole event failed miserably:

The [Berlin] Morgenpost reports that students at the school are mystified by Friday's events. Some said that there is significant academic pressure on 10th graders at this time of year' but that report cards haven't been completed yet. Others said the crime was out of character for Zacharias [mastermind of the imbroglio], who is "totally nice and well-liked."

Posted by Seth Zirkle at June 19, 2007 08:53 PM

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