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My wife has resigned after 39 years of teaching in the same school. She did it largely because of the attitudes of a large majority of kids which you can see so much of in this link.
This lady took a chance and exposed kids and their parents went to the school superintendent to get her out of the school. I saw all this stuff happening in the 80s when I was removed for speaking out and it wasn't nearly as bad then as it is now.
Pa. teacher strikes nerve with 'lazy whiners' blog - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_hi_te/us_teacher_suspended_blog - broken link)
You know why? Because liberalism is a mental disorder. You're not allowed to be parents anymore because it's "child abuse" if you try the slightest to discipline them. So you have to be sensitiiiiive, and spending too much time with your kid and being a parent might make him/her into a bigot . Children need, and crave being parented. That's why they're so out of control nowadays, shooting up drugs left and right, talking back. They need a good paddling. They should take a page out of Hispanic parenting, because that's exactly what's done to kids who tlak back. Hispanic parents are actually PARENTS, and not friends of their kids, and the line is very clearly drawn in the sand
I have thiough that school are for the people wanting to learn. Why should we be wasting time babysitting the kids that do not want to make the effort?
I am a Liberal and I think wasting effort on the stupid, insane and sociopathic is a complete waste.
You can be a good parent without being a abusive bully. I have seen the results of both good, bad, spoiled and bullied.
I am not wealthy but live in a wealthy area. The part about parents wanting to be their kid's friends is spot on. The moms look like such fools dressing like their daughters and talking to them in teen slang. It is really embarressing. And the kids are nothing but spoiled entitled brats.
every saturday night fireworks go off from the country club- why? Bcause it is a kid's Barmitzvah or first communion or sweet 16. Fireworks!!! I was lucky to get a plate of lasagna and a cannoli!
I have thiough that school are for the people wanting to learn. Why should we be wasting time babysitting the kids that do not want to make the effort?
The main reason is that none of them can be employed because of age and any kind of babysitting is considered important. I have seen all of this coming ever since I left the NEA in the mid 70s when the union was pushing for all this. In the late 50s when I began teaching we, the teachers and administrators, were in control of the schools. By the 80s that control had been shifted to the hands of parents and look where we are today. The words that woman used to describe kids of today are the very same ones that my wife uses talking about the majority of them today and we live a long way away from Philadelphia.
I don't think I want my kids in a room all day with a woman who says kids are lazy, stupid and that she hates them. Obviously she's burned out and needs either a better outlet for her stress or a new job.
As someone who has been in education for many years I believe she should be let go. It has everything to do with business and nothing to do with political ideology.
If I am a principal, the last thing I want is a teacher that belittles the children. It does not matter whether the class is whiny and spoiled or not. You are there to teach the children to the best of your ability, and that is that. Children do not learn when they are being belittled and can most certainly sense when the teacher feels the way this particular teacher does.
The children are your product. You NEVER belittle or disparage your product. If you work in an environment where that's what you think of your product, you should have stepped down long before you wrote a blog about it.
She'll make her rounds on the talk shows and such, but who in their right mind would hire such a person in a different industry? Not many.
I don't see that writing a blog demeaning one's students is "courageous". It matters not that what she stated was true (if it was). IMO, courageous is standing up at school and telling the parents of the students this to their face, not in an online blog. YMMV
I don't see that writing a blog demeaning one's students is "courageous". It matters not that what she stated was true (if it was). IMO, courageous is standing up at school and telling the parents of the students this to their face, not in an online blog. YMMV
That is a good point. Parents need to hear the truth about their Prescious children as well.
I don't think I want my kids in a room all day with a woman who says kids are lazy, stupid and that she hates them. Obviously she's burned out and needs either a better outlet for her stress or a new job.
I will take your words as seriously spoken. However, I know what most parents are saying these days and it isn't good concerning what their kids are becoming.
In the early 60s I had fathers come to me and ask me to hit their kid again since the kids had become larger than the fathers and they were afraid of them physically. Today you aren't even allowed to touch a kid because you may be trying for "free feels" and we all know where that kind of thinking came from.
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. Children need, and crave being parented. That's why they're so out of control nowadays, shooting up drugs left and right, talking back. They need a good paddling. They should take a page out of Hispanic parenting, because that's exactly what's done to kids who tlak back. Hispanic parents are actually PARENTS, and not friends of their kids, and the line is very clearly drawn in the sand
