I should probably start a new thread for this but I'm too lazy.
I'm sick of this horseshit which blames the school and the teacher for when the little fuckers don't learn. Where is the responsibility of the student in all this? Yes, I get that parents are overburdened but they are a big part of the problem, too. They want daycare for their kids and no more problems. Far too many are perfectly happy to come home from work and park their kids in front of their computers or tvs just so that it is quiet. How can a teacher, who spends 45-50 minutes a day with the kid overcome that kind of home situation?
Either a kid wants to learn or they don't and far too many seem to fall into the "don't" category.
Chris Rock nails it here.
We've got an entire culture yelling at kids to "stay in school" and they are not fucking listening. If they do stay they aren't paying attention. They've got their noses in their phones or they are disrupting the kids who want to learn.
My folks were depression-era kids. My dad quit school in the 8th grade and my mom made it to 10th. Both of them never stopped with the "do good in school routine so you don't end up like me". My dad always said "work with your head, not with your back." Later on, I realized that I had traded a back ache for a head ache, but I never told him. What would have been the point. They were not unique. They were typical. All my friends told the same stories. But we all listened. They had some credibility even if they thought the Beatles were the end of civilization.
Kids today, even if their parents give them that routine, look at their parents, with their high school degree and their minimum-wage job flipping burgers at fucking McDonalds and say "fuck that."
I suspect we have to lose the notion that college is desirable for everyone....which does make me laugh at Bernie Sanders' proposal and realize that not everyone is cut out for it. It just seems that far too many kids, parents and politicians think that "the schools" should be able to pour knowledge into their little progeny without anyone having any responsibility on the other side. I realize that there are good parents who do their best but they are up against a whole shitload of problems if their kid does not want to cooperate.
I'm sick of this horseshit which blames the school and the teacher for when the little fuckers don't learn. Where is the responsibility of the student in all this? Yes, I get that parents are overburdened but they are a big part of the problem, too. They want daycare for their kids and no more problems. Far too many are perfectly happy to come home from work and park their kids in front of their computers or tvs just so that it is quiet. How can a teacher, who spends 45-50 minutes a day with the kid overcome that kind of home situation?
Either a kid wants to learn or they don't and far too many seem to fall into the "don't" category.
Chris Rock nails it here.
We've got an entire culture yelling at kids to "stay in school" and they are not fucking listening. If they do stay they aren't paying attention. They've got their noses in their phones or they are disrupting the kids who want to learn.
My folks were depression-era kids. My dad quit school in the 8th grade and my mom made it to 10th. Both of them never stopped with the "do good in school routine so you don't end up like me". My dad always said "work with your head, not with your back." Later on, I realized that I had traded a back ache for a head ache, but I never told him. What would have been the point. They were not unique. They were typical. All my friends told the same stories. But we all listened. They had some credibility even if they thought the Beatles were the end of civilization.
Kids today, even if their parents give them that routine, look at their parents, with their high school degree and their minimum-wage job flipping burgers at fucking McDonalds and say "fuck that."
I suspect we have to lose the notion that college is desirable for everyone....which does make me laugh at Bernie Sanders' proposal and realize that not everyone is cut out for it. It just seems that far too many kids, parents and politicians think that "the schools" should be able to pour knowledge into their little progeny without anyone having any responsibility on the other side. I realize that there are good parents who do their best but they are up against a whole shitload of problems if their kid does not want to cooperate.
