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echo: educator
to: RON MCDERMOTT
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-07-14 16:34:00
subject: Re: DISCIPLINE

RM> MS>Excessive drinking is just one of many reasons why college 
RM> MS>profs face at least as serious discipline problems as their 
RM> MS>K-12 counterparts...
RM>  
RM> RM> This statement is just silly... A "discipline problem" is
RM> RM> something along the lines of disrupting class, physical
RM> RM> violence, profanity, etc... 
RM> 
RM> Sophistry...  Stuff that is lumped as "disciplinary" by
RM> administration does not always constitute "disciplinary
RM> problems" for a teacher.  Tardiness is a disciplinary
RM> problem for a teacher, but cutting or absenteeism is a 
RM> disciplinary problem for administrators...
    Even if you want to say _profs_ don't face the discipline problems on 
college campuses that excessive drinking and excessive drug use causes, 
somebody sure faces them.  Talk to any campus-police officer about it, and 
ask him what percentage of vandalism, date rape, rape, and assault by 
students that he deals with involve intoxication!
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