Nashville Teacher messing with 2nd grader UT Fan

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Not related, but I am new to posting and unable to start a thread. Hopefully one of you will think this is worthy and post it in a separate thread for me.

I have a second-grader son who, through his tears, has made me very proud. Jack has only started getting into football in the last month or so and has now been routinely watching UT games on TV with me. We live in Nashville. On Monday, as the kids in his class lined up to go into the school building to start the day, the teacher in charge asked anyone who is a Tennessee fan to raise a hand. My son proudly did so. The teacher, obviously a Vanderbilt fan, then instructed the Vols fans to move to the front of the line and head on into the building first since they had had such a disappointing weekend. My son, sensing a trick, did not go in but stayed in his place. The teacher then instructed the remaining students, the Vandy fans, to go inside.

When I got home my son told me about what had happened, then he started crying profusely. "I didn't understand what the teacher was doing so I didn't walk in first. Now everybody thinks I'm a Vanderbilt fan." I told my son it was an honest mistake and I know he loves Tennessee. Jack, however, was inconsolable. I even offered to give him a piggy-back ride upstairs to show him how proud I am of him. He would have none of it, feeling ashamed to be associated with Vandy fans.

Even though he was at his lowest, I have never been so proud of him. For him to love his team that much at such a young age made me feel like I must be doing something right in the way I'm raising him. And to top it off not wanting to have anything to do with Vandy......Coach Cafego would have been proud too.
 
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mad4vols said:
I'm posting this for Positive Plus.

Not related, but I am new to posting and unable to start a thread. Hopefully one of you will think this is worthy and post it in a separate thread for me.

I have a second-grader son who, through his tears, has made me very proud. Jack has only started getting into football in the last month or so and has now been routinely watching UT games on TV with me. We live in Nashville. On Monday, as the kids in his class lined up to go into the school building to start the day, the teacher in charge asked anyone who is a Tennessee fan to raise a hand. My son proudly did so. The teacher, obviously a Vanderbilt fan, then instructed the Vols fans to move to the front of the line and head on into the building first since they had had such a disappointing weekend. My son, sensing a trick, did not go in but stayed in his place. The teacher then instructed the remaining students, the Vandy fans, to go inside.

When I got home my son told me about what had happened, then he started crying profusely. "I didn't understand what the teacher was doing so I didn't walk in first. Now everybody thinks I'm a Vanderbilt fan." I told my son it was an honest mistake and I know he loves Tennessee. Jack, however, was inconsolable. I even offered to give him a piggy-back ride upstairs to show him how proud I am of him. He would have none of it, feeling ashamed to be associated with Vandy fans.

Even though he was at his lowest, I have never been so proud of him. For him to love his team that much at such a young age made me feel like I must be doing something right in the way I'm raising him. And to top it off not wanting to have anything to do with Vandy......Coach Cafego would have been proud too.
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Speaking as a teacher, it's a horrible human being who abuses his/her authority over children that way.
 
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Ugh, THIS is what two wins does to Vandy fans? pathetic. Get 10-15 more and then maybe I'll consider it a true rivalry
 
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A teacher humiliating a second grader in front of his class because he's a Vol fan? Despicable! Not even the least bit appropriate! It's one thing for another classmate to give him grief but it's a completely different thing when an adult does it, especially a teacher.
 
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ATC_VOL said:
Can't wait till we start blowing them out every year again. I'll never take it for granted again.
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I would say that I'll never let them hear the end if it when we start consistently destroying them again but (I mean this with all sincerity) I don't know a single Vandy fan.
 
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I'm so confused....why is sending one group of kids in before the others so awful? am I missing something?

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I understand why your son is so upset, being generalized with Vandy fans and all haha...But I'm not understanding the people in here flipping out over it though?
 
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They beat us 3 times in thirty years and they think their the best team in the state. I don't believe in running up the score when a team is down but when we get back going again I would make it a point every yr to beat them by 50 or more. We will be back on top eventually and they will regret the day they talked trash to the Vols
 
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She should be fired IMO. You do your damn job, and leave outside crap out of it. What a loser she must be in real life. Hope she is **** canned.
 
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Escape Goat said:
She should be fired IMO. You do your damn job, and leave outside crap out of it. What a loser she must be in real life. Hope she is **** canned.
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Holy hell seriously?!? For making kids who are UT fans go ahead of kids who are Vandy fans?! You may be taking this a little to seriously. I'm pretty positive there was no malicious intent....
 
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BennisDrewer said:
Holy hell seriously?!? For making kids who are UT fans go ahead of kids who are Vandy fans?! You may be taking this a little to seriously. I'm pretty positive there was no malicious intent....
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thank you for stepping in and reminding goat how he should take this,he was confused and you have set him on the correct path..






/sarcasm
 
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Escape Goat said:
Ladies before gentlemen ring a bell?
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Since UT kids went in first ,she's alluding that they're women?! Haha dude, I'm pretty sure no 2nd grader would connect those dots.


Escape Goat said:
Teasing kids ring a bell?
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How is this teasing?!? Hell the parent isn't even mad about it....It's like you're fishing for something to be pissed off about.

I had a grade school teacher who was a USCjr grad...we constantly ribbed each other.


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thank you for stepping in and reminding goat how he should take this,he was confused and you have set him on the correct path..

/sarcasm
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Thank you for recognizing my selfless work...which of course is attempting to make the world see things in my perspective, The correct perspective....

/not an iota of sarcasm.
 
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BennisDrewer said:
Since UT kids went in first ,she's alluding that they're women?! Haha dude, I'm pretty sure no 2nd grader would connect those dots.




How is this teasing?!? Hell the parent isn't even mad about it....It's like you're fishing for something to be pissed off about.

I had a grade school teacher who was a USCjr grad...we constantly ribbed each other.




Thank you for recognizing my selfless work...which of course is attempting to make the world see things in my perspective, The correct perspective....

/not an iota of sarcasm.
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/iota of corn cob
 
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