So very disappointed.

Would have preferred that kind.

Holy crap! A teacher giving something away and not whining about her pay??? God bless this woman!!!

The mountain is high,
the valley is low,
And you're confused
'Bout which to go,
So I flew in
to give you a hand,
And lead you into,
the promised land.

The shop teacher is still offering mustache rides so it's all good.

dr428: Holy crap! A teacher giving something away and not whining about her pay??? God bless this woman!!!

She's retiring.

Going out with a bang and the best class she ever worked with.

Personally, Teachers SHOULD be the highest paid profession in the nation.

I want one! I want one!

/hawt

[FOLLOWUP] Teacher and school district sued after child falls off gift bicycle.

Approves

/hot like Pee-wee's bike

CrispFlows: dr428: Holy crap! A teacher giving something away and not whining about her pay??? God bless this woman!!!

She's retiring.

Going out with a bang and the best class she ever worked with.

Personally, Teachers SHOULD be the highest paid profession in the nation.

What about research?

From the comments:
CindyC666 wrote:
Nice thoughts, Nice try-- but wrong to do at the time-- The story spells out why she did it-- However there are other students in the school that will feel resentment towards "these sepcial students". The other students saw the bikes, the cameras and wondered why they were excluded. Why their teacher did not buy them bikes. I will bet you dollars to donuts some parent will call up the school wondering where's little Johnny's bike. The teacher should have contacted the parent's and made a weekend time to deliver the bikes to the kid's homes. It sounds crazy but today you can not do something without including everyone in it. I made the mistake of bring a holiday cake to work for my students. I was called down to the office and told if I give to one class I have to give to all the classes. I had a self contained class. So the cake stayed in the closet and went home with me. The woman did a nice thing, but the setting was wrong.


Shut up you whiny biatch. And your boss too.

That's really sweet.

What the hell is 'First Coast?'

Great idea.
She should be praised.

However, her susceptibility to liability just grew a thousand fold.

/You know who you are, you snapperhead parents who would sue a teacher who gave your kid a bike with which he/she hurt themselves riding.

ZAZ: [FOLLOWUP] Teacher and school district sued after child falls off gift bicycle.

[FOLLOWUP-2] Jewish mother sues school for daughter receiving Christmas present. Says it would be to damaging for her daughter if bike were taken away and given back.

I think the mods deliberately put this headline right on top of the Georgia sex-with-student story.

What a lovely present before my day off: my first greenlight!

CornFedIowan: I think the mods deliberately put this headline right on top of the Georgia sex-with-student story.

Thus preventing Farkers from being on top of that one?

Radak: CornFedIowan: I think the mods deliberately put this headline right on top of the Georgia sex-with-student story.

Thus preventing Farkers from being on top of that one?

this

Really, bikes? How many of those kids had parents buying them bikes already? How many of them are already riding mountain bikes? (It looks like she bought single speed 20" bikes- when I was in 4th grade, I was the only kid I knew with a bike like that.) And I really hope she bought each kid a helmet too.

It's a sweet gesture, and at least in Florida they won't have to wait for spring and go through a growth spurt before they can ride them, but I think there are a bunch of parents going to be selling bikes on eBay, or leaving them in the garage for a decent interval, and then selling them.

I'd've gone with Legos, personally. You can buy a hell of a lot of Legos for the price of a Wal-Mart bike- and you can't grow out of them.

zephyrkate: I'd've gone with Legos, personally.

Maybe she saw that the kids were a bunch of little fatties, and needed some outside exercise.

I remember my fifth grade teacher was retiring after us. She said, "I'm going to make sure you remember me forever. FOREVER!" We didn't get bikes.

Constance Velocity: That's really sweet.

What the hell is 'First Coast?'

/Bears Repeating

YouPeopleAreCrazy: zephyrkate: I'd've gone with Legos, personally.

Maybe she saw that the kids were a bunch of little fatties, and needed some outside exercise.

You have obviously never done the "Legofoot" dance.

Fine, expensive fattie toy you can't grow out of- Nerf guns.

ParliamentFunkadelic: Constance Velocity: That's really sweet.

What the hell is 'First Coast?'

/Bears Repeating

"First Coast" is what the locals call the Jacksonville & St. Augustine areas, since this is where some of the first European settlements were.

FTFA: All 19 students in Patricia Singleton's 4th grade class got a brand new bike.

19 students? Just 19? Must be some damn rich suburb to have a classroom with only 19 students per class.

SordidEuphemism: ParliamentFunkadelic: Constance Velocity: That's really sweet.

What the hell is 'First Coast?'

/Bears Repeating

"First Coast" is what the locals call the Jacksonville & St. Augustine areas, since this is where some of the first European settlements were.

I didn't know there was a competition between coasts. Geographically, not Rap-star-ically.

Arthur Jumbles: FTFA: All 19 students in Patricia Singleton's 4th grade class got a brand new bike.

19 students? Just 19? Must be some damn rich suburb to have a classroom with only 19 students per class.

We had 456 students in my 4th grade class. I had to walk 12 miles to and from school,...uphill both ways.

Constance Velocity: SordidEuphemism: ParliamentFunkadelic: Constance Velocity: That's really sweet.

What the hell is 'First Coast?'

/Bears Repeating

"First Coast" is what the locals call the Jacksonville & St. Augustine areas, since this is where some of the first European settlements were.

I didn't know there was a competition between coasts. Geographically, not Rap-star-ically.

Madoc would beg to differ. The first coast is Mobile Bay.

Well, this is Fark. And considering the headline just before this one. Can you blame me?

YouPeopleAreCrazy: From the comments:
CindyC666 wrote:
Nice thoughts, Nice try-- but wrong to do at the time-- The story spells out why she did it-- However there are other students in the school that will feel resentment towards "these sepcial students". The other students saw the bikes, the cameras and wondered why they were excluded. Why their teacher did not buy them bikes. I will bet you dollars to donuts some parent will call up the school wondering where's little Johnny's bike. The teacher should have contacted the parent's and made a weekend time to deliver the bikes to the kid's homes. It sounds crazy but today you can not do something without including everyone in it. I made the mistake of bring a holiday cake to work for my students. I was called down to the office and told if I give to one class I have to give to all the classes. I had a self contained class. So the cake stayed in the closet and went home with me. The woman did a nice thing, but the setting was wrong.


Shut up you whiny biatch. And your boss too.


But Cindy's absolutely right.

Matthew Keene: Constance Velocity: SordidEuphemism: ParliamentFunkadelic: Constance Velocity: That's really sweet.

What the hell is 'First Coast?'

/Bears Repeating

"First Coast" is what the locals call the Jacksonville & St. Augustine areas, since this is where some of the first European settlements were.

I didn't know there was a competition between coasts. Geographically, not Rap-star-ically.

Madoc would beg to differ. The first coast is Mobile Bay.

Oh great. Historical dick-sizing by the ones who had absolutely nothing to do with any of it.

Gee, I wonder what coast the Native Americans refer to as the First Coast?

Idiotic.

CrispFlows: dr428: Holy crap! A teacher giving something away and not whining about her pay??? God bless this woman!!!

She's retiring.

Going out with a bang and the best class she ever worked with.

Personally, Teachers SHOULD be the highest paid profession in the nation.

One of my favourite West Wing rants:

Sam Seaborn: Mallory, education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

And I agree wholeheartedly. Solve the education problem, and then your students will solve all the other problems.

zephyrkate: You have obviously never done the "Legofoot" dance.

I have 4 kids. And now grandkids.
Yes, I have turned the air blue at O'dark thirty.

/every kid needs a bike
//every. single. one.

After 35 years of teaching at Woodland Acres Elementary School, Singleton wanted to do something special for a unique group of kids.

After 35 years teaching these little snots, I'd have gone home and rolled the world's largest blunt.

zephyrkate: Really, bikes? How many of those kids had parents buying them bikes already? How many of them are already riding mountain bikes? (It looks like she bought single speed 20" bikes- when I was in 4th grade, I was the only kid I knew with a bike like that.) And I really hope she bought each kid a helmet too.

Oh, why don't you, Cindy666 and ExperianScaresCthulhu all ride your bikes onto the middle of an interstate somewhere. This teacher did something nice for her kids, and all you can do is piass and moan about it. God, what a miserable life you all must lead. If it wasn't your kid, it has nothing to do with you. STFU and DIAF.

I feel bad for the children in other classes. It's a great thing to do but it sucks for the other kids.

YouPeopleAreCrazy: From the comments:
CindyC666 wrote:
Nice thoughts, Nice try-- but wrong to do at the time-- The story spells out why she did it-- However there are other students in the school that will feel resentment towards "these sepcial students". The other students saw the bikes, the cameras and wondered why they were excluded. Why their teacher did not buy them bikes. I will bet you dollars to donuts some parent will call up the school wondering where's little Johnny's bike. The teacher should have contacted the parent's and made a weekend time to deliver the bikes to the kid's homes. It sounds crazy but today you can not do something without including everyone in it. I made the mistake of bring a holiday cake to work for my students. I was called down to the office and told if I give to one class I have to give to all the classes. I had a self contained class. So the cake stayed in the closet and went home with me. The woman did a nice thing, but the setting was wrong.


Shut up you whiny biatch. And your boss too.

Only the ugly students got bikes.

Let's see. Fourth graders? That's what, nine years old....?

sounds like a bribe to me...
/pedobear seal of approval.

there are other students in the school that will feel resentment towards "these sepcial students". The other students saw the bikes, the cameras and wondered why they were excluded. Why their teacher did not buy them bikes. I will bet you dollars to donuts some parent will call up the school wondering where's little Johnny's bike. The teacher should have contacted the parent's and made a weekend time to deliver the bikes to the kid's homes. It sounds crazy but today you can not do something without including everyone in it.

Bullschiat, its time everyone learned that there are winners and losers, Today's winners got bikes the losers all get to watch them ride home.

YouPeopleAreCrazy: From the comments:
CindyC666 wrote:
Nice thoughts, Nice try-- but wrong to do at the time-- The story spells out why she did it-- However there are other students in the school that will feel resentment towards "these sepcial students". The other students saw the bikes, the cameras and wondered why they were excluded. Why their teacher did not buy them bikes. I will bet you dollars to donuts some parent will call up the school wondering where's little Johnny's bike. The teacher should have contacted the parent's and made a weekend time to deliver the bikes to the kid's homes. It sounds crazy but today you can not do something without including everyone in it. I made the mistake of bring a holiday cake to work for my students. I was called down to the office and told if I give to one class I have to give to all the classes. I had a self contained class. So the cake stayed in the closet and went home with me. The woman did a nice thing, but the setting was wrong.



That's why I teach an elective class. "Oh, so you're sad you didn't get to do the band party? Hmm..shoulda joined band I guess. Well, there's always next semester I guess."

Wow.

As a kid, every Christmas I asked my parents for a bike. Growing up poor, it never happened. Then in fifth grade, someone left a Christmas tree and four bikes at our house. My first Christmas tree and my first bike. That person remains anonymous.

Patricia Singleton is a great teacher and a great person.

Captain Fapdaily: Wow.

As a kid, every Christmas I asked my parents for a bike. Growing up poor, it never happened. Then in fifth grade, someone left a Christmas tree and four bikes at our house. My first Christmas tree and my first bike. That person remains anonymous.

Patricia Singleton is a great teacher and a great person.

So true. Her students got a nice gift and the rest of the kids in the school learned the more valuable lesson that Life Is Not Fair.

Captain Fapdaily: That person remains anonymous.

I bet they did it for the LULZ.

I'd've been sad if I got a bike. Never could learn to ride one of the goddamn things.

/has absolutely no sense of balance
//also had no motivation, since there was nothing fun close enough to get to on a bike
///now that ship has sailed

Rodeodoc: Oh, why don't you, Cindy666 and ExperianScaresCthulhu all ride your bikes onto the middle of an interstate somewhere. This teacher did something nice for her kids, and all you can do is piass and moan about it. God, what a miserable life you all must lead. If it wasn't your kid, it has nothing to do with you. STFU and DIAF.

I said, she was nice, and nothing is cooler on the surface to a kid than receiving a bike. I've given bikes as gifts- it wasn't a good idea.

My father collects bikes as a hobby. I gave two of my nephews one of his bikes each for absolutely no reason- not their birthday, not Christmas, just, "You have no bikes? You are boys, here, have bikes." They were both significantly better quality and potential price than your average department store kid's bike- my Dad didn't have space for them and said the kids could have them. I asked their father's permission before I gave them to them, bought them both helmets. Essentially, they got a helmet that came with a free bike.

Both boys were too short for the bikes, but we adjusted them all the way down and figured they'd grow eventually.

The older boy, 15, had no idea what quick release wheels were and took it apart five minutes after he got it home and put it back together wrong. The younger boy, 11, had never had a bike with hand brakes, crashed it and was scared to ride it again.

Their uncle on their mother's side of the family was pissed because he had been planning bikes for their Christmas presents. Shortly after Christmas, both bikes were stolen out of their garage. They haven't had new bikes since, and their father has said they were so much trouble the first time, it's not going to happen again.

That's for two kids. Not 19.