Report Quote #8325

// Hinkle is talking about being a student teacher at some school in Columbus, Ohio during desegregation Hinkle: At this school there would be 18, 19 year olds in 9th grade. There were a lot of fights. The first week of school, some teachers were crying in the teachers lounge, so I asked them what happened. Apparently some kid got stabbed. He was in sixth grade or something, and his name was John. The second week, there was a fight in the hallway, and I had to break it up. I had anger management issues and I hit him. I punched him twice, and he went down in 2 hits. At that point I knew I was doomed, and at the end of the day, I got a call from the main office. "Mr. Hinkle, please come to the main office." And, so, I was thinking I had to say bye to my teaching career, but instead he congratulated me on my great work. He said the kid needed it.