Teacher suspended for telling it like it is...

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Junior high math and freshman algebra teacher. At our 20th HS reunion, all the teachers were invited back. When people would go up to this woman, she would reach into her bag, pull out old gradebooks and tell them how good (or bad) we were in her class. For reasons that are obvious, I avoided her!

 

35 years after I had her in class, I still wish Connie Roybal a painful death for the humiliation I suffered in 6th, 7th and 8th grade. Even when I did the right thing, I was wrong.

 

Yeah, so many high schools and middle schools are filled with a majority of unmotivated kids who have this air of entitlement.
They suck and their parents often are flaky, disengaged dipshits.

There's still hope though.

 

I had a math teacher in high school (also the water polo coach) who terrified me. I'd go in before school a couple times per week to try and understand what was going on, but it still didn't click. Math has always been a major weakness for me. He knew this. He'd have a problem on the board, look around the room for someone to call on. At least once or twice a week, he'd look right at me, smile and ask if I knew the answer. I'd say 1 out of every 10 times, I did.

Last year, his school was hosting a water polo meet. I was scared to make eye contact, even though I've been out of high school for nearly 10 years.

 

Because schools boards are full of sanctimonious parents/business leaders who hate education and teachers and enjoy being the "parents' advocate" on the board. Some love nothing more than to tear down the work of educators.

 

True tho that may be, I still want her to die painfully.

 

Society doesn't advance and better itself automatically. It usually takes someone willing to speak up, not accept the status quo and go a little Howard Beale. The momentum of mediocrity is a powerful, seductive force. I'm glad that in this day and time, she wasn't smarter than this. A tip of the hat to those willing to step outside the comfort zone. We're all going to die, and we're going to be dead for a long, long time. Life is short. Good for her. Brava.

 

Crazy. I don't recall having any teachers that I ever felt more than a tiny bit peeved at. Certainly not angry enough to want to harm them. Then again, I was strictly raised to respect my elders even when they didn't earn it.

 

I realize, especially now that I'm dating a teacher, that they have and always have had very challenging jobs.

It's still no excuse for some of them to have behaved the way they have toward children.

The only thing that saved a couple of my teachers from horrific beatings at the hands of my parents is that I was terrified that I would get it at home if I had let slip what was going on at school. Back then I just naturally assumed that a teacher's word was law and my parents would automatically take their word over mine. "Oh, you got spanked in front of the entire class, did you, Double J? Well, I guess you must have deserved it, and here's some more for good measure!!"

 

We're not going to call our lousy unmotivated students out. We're going to continue to let America's educational quality slip into the sewer.

Nutjob parents and lawyers run the educational system in which bad teachers flourish. Some good teachers who see teaching as a calling tough it out for as long as they can, then they're either cut for early retirement or just get burned out.