Gary Harris

Follower of Christ, husband to Jennifer and father to Claire. Dean of Students at East Rankin Academy. Mississippi State alum and diehard Bulldog.

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I’ll die on this hill…Fox does college football so much better than ESPN. Graphics, camera work, replays. Not sure what’s up with Tim Brando’s voice but everything else is good.

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There used to be a basic understanding that teachers deserved a baseline level of respect.
Schools operated under the principle of in loco parentis, meaning “in the place of the parent.” When children were at school, teachers were trusted to set boundaries, correct behavior, and keep order.
Respect for adults was assumed. It was not something teachers had to negotiate for every day.
Most of us remember getting in trouble at school and worrying a whole lot more about what was going to happen when we got home.
Because home and school were usually on the same side.
Your parents may have asked what happened. They may have disagreed with a consequence once in a while. But you knew better than to walk through the door acting like the teacher was the problem.
You were going to be asked one question first.
“What did you do?”
That did not mean teachers were always right. It meant adults believed in correcting children without turning every consequence into a courtroom.
Too often now, some parents approach schools more like lawyers than partners.
Instead of asking, “How do we help my child learn from this?” the first response becomes, “Why did you do this to my child?”
Students watch all of it.
They learn that expectations can be debated. Consequences can be negotiated. And if they push hard enough, an adult may be the one who has to defend themselves.
That is a very different classroom.
Yes, classroom management matters. Teachers should continue learning how to build relationships, prevent problems, respond calmly, and create a room where students can learn.
But we cannot pretend skill is the whole issue.
A teacher can have strong relationships, clear expectations, consistent routines, and still be cursed at for taking up a phone.
They can be threatened for enforcing a rule.
They can be publicly attacked for holding a boundary.
They can even be assaulted for doing the job they were hired to do.
That is not a classroom-management problem.
That is a cultural problem.
Teachers did not create a culture where enforcing expectations is treated as aggression. They did not create a culture where accountability is optional or where a parent’s first instinct is to protect a child from every consequence.
But teachers are expected to manage the fallout from it.
So when we blame burnout, turnover, and silence on teachers needing “better classroom management,” we miss what is really happening.
This is not just about skill. It is about risk.
Teachers should not have to worry about personal safety, retaliation, or public backlash for enforcing the expectations their school has put in place.
Classroom management did not fail.
The social contract did

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@bshields0244 And Ethan didn’t play in the 2nd half.

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@bshields0244 Ethan Butler. East Rankin. 10 carries, 282 yards, 5 TDs. 28.2 YPR.

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@BUCoachGriffin @MomOf3KGs Happy Birthday, Kim!

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@RadioWyatt He’s on the same level as Coach Luther van Dam

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@JARaiderSB For those Raider fans who can’t make it, we will livestream games on https://t.co/FWU3xIMiEm

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@RadioWyatt Plug that Jake Mangum stat problem into AI. Don’t go look up all those box scores.

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@DawgatAuburn This blows chunks.

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@BUCoachGriffin @Kaden_Griffin22 Happy Birthday, Kaden.

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@robbiefaulk1878 I fully expect Ace Reese to be taken soon. BUT…is there a spot that he falls past that he would consider coming back for a chance to get drafted higher? I know the age is a factor.

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@TRHLofficial Articles, rather.

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@TRHLofficial What’s your thoughts on the anniversary of the “Declaration of Capitulation”?

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@robbiefaulk1878 Not even close. Love hearing @realbenmcdonald

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@RivsHughey Oh Rivers! What have you done???

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@DudyNobleField I was there. Ty Martin. Interestingly enough, Brian O’Conner was the Notre Dame pitching coach.

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@robbiefaulk1878 And we have GOT to get ABS for postseason. Maybe they’ll start in CWS next year.

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@wpmcgee Ouch. When bracket came out I said “USM got the toughest 4 team regional.” Jax State as a #3?

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@GTibbitt @CoachJwill_ @NSUDemonsFB Back at Glenbrook? I can dig it.

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@SEC Why are your baseball standings not updated at 5:15 PM on a Monday on the website?? This should be updated every day.