Law & Order finale

[Groo The Perverted]

This isn't another thread talking about the show being cancelled, but more just to give my thoughts on the finale.

Anyone else watch that and just feel so angry and frustrated at the storyline involving the "Rubber Room"?

My brother is a teacher and my mom's been an educator for years, and is now a Director of Education at a midwest university.

And watch this just reinforces why I would NEVER be a teacher. Not just the little pay or respect, but the fact that these kids can f*** your whole life up with a simple accusation. One thing taken out of context, or intentionally blown up into something it's not, and your life is gone.

Basically this is what happened.

[Show spoiler]The main case involved a blog that had these pictures of pipe bombs and whatnot, and a video showing one going off. They tracked that to another site that had a huge manifesto about essentially recreating a Columbine like situation.

So they're going around trying to find out who is behind this, and they discover this place called "the Rubber Room" where teachers who are under investigation over accusations of misconduct are sent to basically do crossword puzzles and whatnot. They can't be allowed to TEACH, so in order to still get paid and their pension they have to show up here and just ...be there.

Some have been there for years with no end in sight.

So while that was upsetting, HERE's the part that really just infuriated me.

One teacher was accused of calling a student stupid. What she said was that if he didn't learn his lessons, that people would think he was stupid, even if he wasn't stupid.

Her career is done. There were a bunch like that, but by far the worst was this teacher who was teaching class, and a kid asked to go to the bathroom. It was 10 minutes left in the class, and seeing as how the teachers get shit if their students are in the hallway during class, he asked the student to hold it and wait.

The student goes to the front of the class, and takes a leak in the trash can. The teacher steps in to stop him, and the kid goes to the principal or whoever and accused him of molestation! he was sent to the Rubber room to wait out the case, and it was thrown out by the board I guess, but he was still done. No one would hire him.

This just reinforces my belief that kids as a whole are just completely without morals and ethics and have no problem just completely ruining someone's life.

YES this is a show, but if you don't think this type of shit has happened you're delusional.

And not all kids are like that, but a lot are. And it's not "kids these days" because they were a-holes back when I was in school.

Knowing this, why would you EVER want to be a teacher and put yourself in that position of vulnerability where all a kid has to do is make an accusation like that, and even if they exonerate you, you're done.

I honestly fear for my brother having something like that happen. these kids know way too much as far as how to manipulate and the power of blanket accusations.

It's like these people who have wrongly been accused of sexual offenses or whatever. all it takes is an accusation. Even if you're acquitted, you're always going to be the guy who was accused of a sex offense.



EDIT: here's a NY Times article talking about the episode and the "Rubber Rooms". MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE FINALE IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...e-rubber-room/