It was 1991, the inaugural year of the Bryan Academy for Visual and Performing Arts (BAVPA), an elementary grades Magnet School in Bryan, Texas, and as I walked down the hall one day behind the principal and a father of one of my third graders, I heard the dad say, "I told my son, if one on the other kids bothers you, 'Hit him with a tv!'" That same year I also had a fifth grade student