Monday, January 12, 2004

from slashdot...

Taken from a readers' comment at slashdot:

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In a nutshell, the reason the educational system has gone to hell is that teachers have *NO LEVERAGE* over students. Teachers have no way to *make* kids do anything. The only options teachers have for disciplining kids is to have them removed from the classroom (suspension, on campus retention, etc). Guess what, the kids don't care :) Most of the time when a teacher calls a kids parents the parents yell at the TEACHER and threaten to sue and whatnot. The teachers are in an impossible situation. A family member of mine once called a girls mother because she didn't write an essay. A whole *stinkin* half page essay. The assignment was to research something about apples and write it in essay format. The mother (who was black) came down to the school and screamed at said family member, "You're a racist! Black people don't eat apples! Apples are white people food. If the assignment was on sweet potatos then my daughter could have done it! Black people eat those!"
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And I couldn't agree more.

posted @ 9:26 AM

comments

Joe said:

I would also have to agree with that one David!

i was yelled at on mon, january 12 @ 11:05 pm

Rich-Dogg said:

You gotta admit, she makes a good point. White people don't eat swet potatoes, and black people don't eat apples

i was yelled at on tue, january 13 @ 1:03 am

James said:

Wow some people are just plain ignorant. Joe wouldn't go down to the school and complain if Ms. Allison had him write an essay on deoderant =P just kidding Joe, you smell quite nice, lol.

i was yelled at on tue, january 13 @ 4:53 am

CHELS said:

comment:: true but its thesamein college and thoughout your life so i guess if u actually want to get anywhere in life you should go with what your authority says..maybe im wrong?

i was yelled at on tue, january 13 @ 8:16 am

david said:

I would think that if you want to get anywhere in life, be it school, work, college, whatever, you are going to have to go along with authority; you are going to have to do some ass-kissing, but my point is is that teachers are wondering why students are always misbehaving. If kids don't have a firm grounding in anything else, school is what they know; it is their life.

But it's not like I want anything changed, for one can also take advantage of the fact that teachers have no control over us.

i was yelled at on tue, january 13 @ 5:38 pm

Tony said:

Actually, I think everything is wrong because TEACHERS ARE MORONS!!! We're talking about bottom of the barrel people here, the only ones with any scrap of inteligence are the old ones who want to teach. All of the others who have been teaching like for 30 years or whatnot. ARE VERY DUMB!!

Ignorance can be forgiven, but ignorant and annoying cannot. lol

i was yelled at on fri, january 16 @ 4:24 am

joeshmoe554 said:

If the ones who teach society are such idiots then how can they be the bottom of the barrel. That would prove society as a whole knows didly squat.

i was yelled at on mon, january 19 @ 5:25 pm

James said:

Good one JS, idiots teaching idiots, sounds kinda like a colony of intelligent monkeys trying to teach the dumber monkeys to get ants out of a hill with a stick.....
I saw it on discovery channel!

i was yelled at on mon, january 19 @ 10:02 pm

chels said:

comment:: i love it that no one tells chelsey anything...like about stass and david...yeah...i know im not in the little 'group' anymore bu its like, one of the top 10 things people hide from chelsey

i was yelled at on thu, january 22 @ 6:40 am

Tony said:

Thats my point Joe, they're helping the idiots get ahead. Its just sad really. Society is just going downhill with its intelligence.

Can you imagine a world ruled by the stupid? I forsee a nuclear winter!

i was yelled at on fri, january 23 @ 2:37 am

A2 said:

Why the hell are you worried about a world worried by morons? its worked just dandy for the past 4000 years. People are still around, technology is better, and smart people stay out of politics. therefore I am not smart due to my engagement in this conversation. Which makes my point invalid. Which very well may make me smart again. crap...

i was yelled at on sun, january 25 @ 8:08 am