Teachers Vs. Parents: Round 2... FIGHT!

[bitsdawg]

Doesn't matter. Perfect teachers and perfect students won't fix a shitty education system.

This and getting worse with budget cuts. Schools are getting so large, teachers are over-burdened, and some kids get overwhelmed. Overwhelmed kids can behave badly too.

I have more than one kid, and they all reacted very differently to school. Yet, I raise them in the same house, fed them the same dinner, etc.

Taking my struggling child out of the super-sized school and putting that child into a smaller, progressive school was an instant fix. The other kids were fine with super-size.

If teachers were striking my kids with sex accessories I would be very concerned.

THIS! How is this helpful? I would be more than pissed.

 

[dreamache]

Did you guys know they're now teaching peasant classes in middle school? "Workforce Training" I believe is what the class is actually called.

My daughter rightfully calls it sheeple101

That's one of the most concerning things I've read in this entire thread... and also hilarious, the end part.

Fuck.

 

[lukep]

Do they still teach "Home Economics," which is basically a class on how to be a housewife?

Sheeple 101 is nothing new. At least since the 1950s there have always been classes on making kids ready to join the workforce at the very bottom.

But in america we are taking it to new heights; making sure that EVERY schoolkid is totally unprepared for being successful. (We teach our most scholarly schoolkids here to always hold a J.O.B. for life. Only when they drop out do they get smart, like Zuck, Schmidt, myself, and half the people on WF.) What a fucked up country...


Seous is the luckiest of us all though. Not only does he get to drop out soon and have a head start at the AM world, but once he drops out he'll have the additional reward of being able to Bang the chemistry hottie!

Spoon pics of her by next week, Seous!

 

[-joe-]

Do they still teach "Home Economics," which is basically a class on how to be a housewife?

I did home ec as one of my GCSE choices. (exams you do over here when you're 16)

Out of all the subjects I did (10/11), that's the only one that I've actually used, and has been helpful. Yeah it involves cooking (that was the main reason I chose it - free food every week :xomunch but it also is about nutritition, vitamins, etc. I dunno if that's the case over there, but you also have to write a piece of coursework that's 50 pages long over here.

 

[seous]

Seous is the luckiest of us all though. Not only does he get to drop out soon and have a head start at the AM world, but once he drops out he'll have the additional reward of being able to Bang the chemistry hottie!

Spoon pics of her by next week, Seous!

I shall.

I'm not going to drop out though. Hopefully getting into an Ivy League school so I can brag about it to people when I'm older and for credibility in the software engineering/computer programming field. ;D

 

[potentialeight]

Last week, a buddy and I were discussing the way things have changed regarding how parents and teachers interact. Things were a LOT different when we were in school. If one of our teachers called to talk to our parents, our first reaction was always "Oh, shit!"

Amen!

Our 6th grade teacher taught us science (aerodynamics/drag/etc) and respect all at once with Herkimer, a 24"x8" oak paddle with 1/2" holes drilled all over the striking surface. Only a couple of us needed more than one to shape and shut up. And differences were settled with fistfights after school.

I'm 26 now. When I was in the 5th grade, they took a paddle nicknamed "Bertha" from our teacher. Even then I thought that was ridiculous. I'd had the same teacher in the 4th grade and it never had to be used because everyone knew she would use it if she needed to. She was old when I was in school, but this same teacher eventually retired out of frustration because she couldn't discipline the kids at all. If she sent a kid to the office, they would send his (or her) ass back like 30 minutes later.

 

[roclafamilia]

Teachers are usually right. I know I've given my teachers a fair share of trouble, but didn't realize until I graduated. Also I realized it was always my fault after graduating. Not to say I didn't have shitty teachers, I did many times, and would just rebel and not apply myself because I thought they sucked at teaching that class. But I didn't apply myself at all, which is 100% my fault. Not the teachers, not my parents but mine. My parents and teachers did almost all they could (or should) for me. I decided to be lazy and not apply myself. I however never did fail a class, my parents would have killed me if I did that. There wouldn't have been any questions or excuses, just murder.

It really does bother me that parents defend their children so much when they really don't know what happened. Teachers are there to educate the kid, not to accuse them of anything or baby sit them. By the time a child hits school they should be "trained" to behave properly. Most of the time it's not the teachers fault, and not even the child's fault, but the parents fault for not raising their kid with good discipline and respect for others.

 

[Napolean]

One big fix for a lot of these problems would be to make it easier for parents to pick what schools their children go to.

Since your stuck with whatever school is within the x mile radius of your home, or the one or two private schools that are allowed to exist, parents decide "if I can't choose my child's education, I'll try my best to change it to my liking".

Would this solve the coddling and trust issues with parents and teachers? Not very likely, but it could help in some instances. A parent who is convinced their child is getting shafted, because of the school they are dictated to based on neighborhood. They are going to blame the school 10 times more than they would blame themselves.

It's kind of like someone settling for a car, then complaining to the dealer every time it runs poorly. Doesn't matter if they forgot to get the oil changed, change the brakes, etc. In their minds, the car is just a bad car. Even though, all that's really wrong, is maybe they didn't like the only color that was available, but they bought it anyway.

 

[.Hack]

duh...post up!



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I went to a private school until 6th and I was paddled atleast 3 times by the principal and vice. Shit hurt so bad, had 2 pull my pants down and get hit 3x each time.

 

[lukep]

Shit hurt so bad, had 2 pull my pants down and get hit 3x each time.

Only 3x???

You soft kids these days...

I remember seeing the biggest dudes in the whole school all cry like babies when they got their 11th (one to grow on) paddle and have to go lie down for the rest of the day instead of returning to class...

No one made fun of their tears at all... Not a soul, because we all knew we'd have them too, sooner or later.

Luckily I only got paddled twice. (5x the first time, 11x the second.) My brothers got paddled so much though that there was a paddle in the VP's office named after my family. True story.

 

[seous]

I'll try to get some pics later (I tried on open house but this old guy walked in front of my phone).

There ya go to fap to... Not open for photo viewing though.

facebook.com/profile.php?id=569174615

 

[Big Joe]

I know that no matter what I did wrong I could always get my mom to take my side and tell the teacher they were wrong.

Now I hear the same thing with other parents. Trying to pick a teacher that their kids like better and giving the teacher shit bcause they ylled at their kid or gave to much home work.

 

[Grindstone]

I'll try to get some pics later (I tried on open house but this old guy walked in front of my phone).

There ya go to fap to... Not open for photo viewing though.

facebook.com/profile.php?id=569174615

Somebody teach young jedi some facebook stalking skills.

+ rep for all the paddle (we called em hacks) stories, I straight up swear that shit taught me to respect authority and kept me out of prison in the long run.

 

[hewqu]

The excellent teachers who are motivated, have skills to make students understand the concepts, direct the studies into the students minds, motivate students to self-study after going home are very few now days.
The teaches now days are enjoying free bike rides these days and the parents must fuck-up these lazy teachers by complaining them to the school/college authorities.