Mamacita says: All this talk about how it’s the teacher’s fault whenever a student does badly at school. . . . I can’t help but think that these people must blame the photographer if their kid is homely. Isn’t it – sometimes – the same thing?
Photoshop faces or abilities or personalities all you want: if you throw glitter on a dungheap, it’s still going to stink.
Before some of you arm yourselves and advance upon my home with lit torches, please be aware that I am in NO WAY discussing SPED.
I am, however, talking about students who refuse to work and parents who still expect them to be promoted, play sports, go to the prom, and wander the halls if they so desire because after all, Billy knows best about what he wants when he goes to school, and that hateful Ms. SkullDroppings has had it in for him ever since he accessed all that porn on her computer during lunch that time. She didn’t even appreciate his expertise in picking her lock, or in his mad computer skillz. I mean, reallllllly. (Bitch) (It’s all right, Billy, Mommy understands you.)
Ahem.
A photoshopped picture isn’t really a picture of someone. It’s only a picture of what that someone wished he/she looked like. It’s a facade, with all the reality removed.
And any grade, privilege, promotion, award, etc, is. . . well, it’s a facade, too. It’s fake. It’s a facade, with all the reality removed.
Ooooh, shiny! Pretty!
What stinks?
I keep feeling that all those kids grew up and got elected to office and are now in charge of us. They didn’t know what they were doing then and they don’t now. We are being governed by the photoshopped generation.
I keep feeling that all those kids grew up and got elected to office and are now in charge of us. They didn’t know what they were doing then and they don’t now. We are being governed by the photoshopped generation.
It’s not even a “kids these days” issue. Something has seriously changed in parenting over the last 20 years.
It’s not even a “kids these days” issue. Something has seriously changed in parenting over the last 20 years.
Oh man. Went to an amusement park recently. The screaming, the whining, the placating.
And these kids are going back to school.
Oh man. Went to an amusement park recently. The screaming, the whining, the placating.
And these kids are going back to school.
As a parent of a SPED child, I have to actually agree with you here. I am in my kids’ classrooms every week, and I am always shocked by the disrespect of some of the children in the class. They refuse to participate, cooperate, go on field trips, or stop CURSING. I am amazed that these kids are not dragged out of the classroom old fashioned style – by their ear from their parents. It feels like we don’t do as many consequences any more. I do have a child with some special circumstances, but when I get a call from the school, I act on it. Teachers are not to be blamed.
As a parent of a SPED child, I have to actually agree with you here. I am in my kids’ classrooms every week, and I am always shocked by the disrespect of some of the children in the class. They refuse to participate, cooperate, go on field trips, or stop CURSING. I am amazed that these kids are not dragged out of the classroom old fashioned style – by their ear from their parents. It feels like we don’t do as many consequences any more. I do have a child with some special circumstances, but when I get a call from the school, I act on it. Teachers are not to be blamed.
Yeah. Every year, I come back to school hoping that something magical will have happened over the summer and the kids will return to school with better attitudes, and every year, I’m disappointed. You’d think I’d learn, but hope really does spring eternal…
Yeah. Every year, I come back to school hoping that something magical will have happened over the summer and the kids will return to school with better attitudes, and every year, I’m disappointed. You’d think I’d learn, but hope really does spring eternal…