I'm getting tired of teaching

[Medellon]

I went to school in the 70's and 80's and can't remember kids being direspectful, honest. Like NFS4 said, most kids were well-behaved and did what you wanted them to do .I tell my students that "medicine" in my day was 3 feet of leather as I point to my belt.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Desslok

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
What's really sad is that crappy Parents blame the teachers for their little snot gobblers academic failings when the problem is them!

That's a gross over-simplification. Many parents do care about their child's education, but they also have to work 2 or more jobs just to feed their household. It's difficult to get involved with your kid's schoolwork when you barely have time to eat and sleep.

Then you have no business having kids if you have to work two jobs. Get an EDUCATION before you start pumping out kids so you DON'T have to work at Taco Hell and Walmart.

Well yes.

IDEALLY they shouldn't be getting pregnant at 16.
IDEALLY they shouldn't be having multiple kids without the necessary income to support them.
IDEALLY they should have a stable two parent home.
IDEALLY they should have time to involve themselves in their children's lives.

But these circumstances are not always realistic or enforceable. I'd rather they work two jobs than drain welfare.

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: Baked
Write letters to your state congressmen, representatives, senators and thank them for the good job they're doing w/ the education budget.

Would you mind explaining how this would help the parents care about their children?

Personally, I think schools need to be able to discipline the kids. Kids that cause too much trouble just get kicked out of school end sent to boot camp.

 

[conjur]

Teen pregnancies are way down. Many people have to work two jobs to maintain a standard of living that keeps rising like mad each year while wages remain flat.

Whatever happened to that money trickling down?


:roll:



Anyway, too many parents fawn their kids off to be raised by TV or their friends and their friends' parents. Parents taking an active life in their child's education and discipline will raise much better behaved kids.

 

[Jzero]

My wife teaches at an alternative school for the kids who got kicked out of the regular public school. You would probably kiss the floor in your classroom after a few weeks there 🙂

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Medellon
I went to school in the 70's and 80's and can't remember kids being direspectful, honest. Like NFS4 said, most kids were well-behaved and did what you wanted them to do .I tell my students that "medicine" in my day was 3 feet of leather as I point to my belt.

And back then, kids were scared of getting into trouble b/c they knew that their parents would beat the sh!t out of them when they got home. Hell, kids got paddled at school for acting up.

Our 3rd grade teacher had a mini wooden paddle that she would use to smack kids on the hand if they were being bad. If that wasn't enough, you went ot the principal who had a supersize paddle with holes in it. You didn't want that thing.

Nowadays, you'd get the police called on your for doing that.

 

[stnicralisk]

I am going into teaching. This Spring I have my Internship. I have a good foot into a "plush" school. I have worked at the worst schools in the county and found that I could reach the students there. The problem is that by the time you reach them much of the year has passed. I have convinced some students who were considered unreachable before to do their work and that dropping out was senseless. You have to get them to set goals for the future and then help them understand their plight without an education. Hell I almost have my BA and it is difficult for me to find a decent job around here at the moment.

 

[rh71]

ahhh... Texas... (explains the English part)

depends where you teach... you get quite different results in different areas (middle-upper class suburbia, etc.)

 

[Koenigsegg]

Only way I'd be a teacher is if it's in one of these over achieving high schools here with 85% well-behaving asian kids 🙂

But yeah, you just have to stick with it. You CAN reach a kid, they're at a young age, there is a way to get to the. It's going to be extremely difficult, but it's not a completely hopeless cause..

 

[nakedfrog]

Try to get a Department of Defense Overseas Education gig. You get to live overseas, decent pay, and you can guarantee that if you need to talk to one of the parents about a problem child, you can...

 

[Analog]

I teach in a university setting, so I don't see what you do - since these people are paying to be there. What you describe won't last here very long.

 

[gnumantsc]

Tired of all that crap move to Canada. Atleast here we speak the language properly and salaries are much higher than what you teachers get in the US. Even in the poorer districts of Canada is a lot better than in the US.

Ever thought of moving north of the border?

 

[Medellon]

Yeah but then wouldn't I have to put up with kids knowing only French? 😉

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
I'm not a teacher but I still 100% agree with you.

Ditto

 

[shud]

Originally posted by: yukichigai
The ADD thing has really become a crutch for so many parents. When I was diagnosed it was a last-ditch "God I hope this isn't it" effort by my parents. Unfortunately, most parents don't exhaust all their other options before hopping on the Ritalin bandwagon. It's easy, it's covered by insurance, and it shuts the kid up 80% of the time. That's because it's meth, idiots. Before giving little Billy the little white pills, why don't you keep the f%$#ing Mountain Dew away from him for a week or so and see what happens?

Same here. I was diagnosed before it became a huge craze. If you give that sh!t to a kid who DOESN'T have ADD, it's just going to amp him up. This one lady asked my mom what I was on, because her kids were crazy. She started both of them on ritalin. It had a wonderful effect on the older kid and his little brother turned into a fvcking raving lunatic because it was like him chugging Surge (R.I.P.) in the morning.

 

[DaShen]

Back in my day at private school, coporal punishment was still around. Kids were very well behaved, and teachers were highly respected. None of this namby pamby crap about "abuse", it is teaching the kid if it isn't out of anger.

 

[FleshLight]

Just teach solely honors/ap classes.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Baked
Write letters to your state congressmen, representatives, senators and thank them for the good job they're doing w/ the education budget.

What does the education budget have to do with students acting like snot-nosed little punks and parents who don't care?

 

[shud]

Yeah, need to start physical punishment. I think kids would shut the fvck up and at least feign paying attention if the teacher was using a Benelli loaded with beanbags instead of a laser pointer.

 

[EGGO]

I wasn't a problem child at 7th grade, I was in those enrichment classes.

But I know how they're like because I've seen the crap that happens. May you find peace without the use of a firearm. =0)

 

[PingSpike]

I could possibly see myself teaching college level stuff, but no fvcking way would I teach highschool, so many stupid smartass fvckers...god I hated highschool. Elementary wasn't much better, I don't feel like wiping kids asses for a living.

At least in college they want to be there...that or they just don't even show up for class.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: Baked
Write letters to your state congressmen, representatives, senators and thank them for the good job they're doing w/ the education budget.

You're a moron.

The budget size has nothing to do with parents disinterest in their kids education.

 

[Proletariat]

Teach better.

The best teachers I had made me want to learn and broadened my horizons. The worst teachers yelled at people all the time and whined.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Medellon
Though I have been only teaching 10 years I really feel it taking its toll this year. My classes are full of students who don't know English, students with very poor or low skills, students with all different kinds of modifications due to supossed mental problems such as ADD, ADHD, etc. I'm tired of the crappy parents who can't get their kids to school on time, check to see if they did their homework, come to parent night at school, or even bother to check a report card. These problems seem to be getting worse over the years and I'm not sure why this is the year it is getting to me. I won't even go into the disrespect these kids have for teachers and the poor attitude they have towards school as I would be writing forever. Any other teachers feel the same way?

I hear that from many teacher friends and administration.

You're not alone.

 

[Freejack2]

Things have changed in the past 25 - 30 years. 30 years ago a huge number of households had at least one parent staying home to raise the kids. The stay at home parent did have things that needed to be done during the day but there was almost always time to take care of the kids.
Now many households have both parent's working. The parent's have worked a long day and then they come home tired. Now parents have to take care of their kids with 9-10 less hours a day. This doesn't leave much time for proper child raising.
As the gap between income and cost of living increases this is only going to get worse.

Am I the only who is looking at everything going on and thinking that this country is on the verge of a crisis?