Venting
They must be screwing with me. They must be. I can’t dumb it down any further. I mean, how much simpler can I get?
Copy the answers from the board. What are we suppose to do?
Summarize what we just read. What did we read?
What do you think about…?I donno.
How fucking hard is that?
I really cannot deal with what must either be stupidity or laziness. What else could it be? I’m down to all but writing the damn assignments for some of them, and even then they do nothing. Oh wait, they complain it’s “too hard.” That’s what they do. They want me to tell them the answers, to write it for them. I ask them to write a paper, and all they do is wait for me to dictate what they should write. They aren’t even trying to come up with their own ideas anymore.
Anything that is harder than “put your name on the paper” they cannot do – OH WAIT. That’s right, they STILL don’t put their names on assignments, then get mad that I don’t “give them a grade.”
How can I “give them a grade” when I have no fucking clue which paper belong to which child – I can only identify so much by handwriting, and no way if it is typed.
Oh, and they look at me when I tell them I don’t “give grades.” They they “get what [they] have earned.” They think they deserves As for being there every day.
Student: “Well I did it. Why don’t I have an A?”
Me: “No you didn’t you copied all the answers from someone else, and they got it wrong.”
Student: “I did it, why don’t I have an A?”
The have to be trying to drive me mad. There is no other logical explanation. I don’t want to believe they are really that lazy are that actively seeking to be ignorant.
OH and I love that the last two hours of my day were spent being lectured by parents that I’m not doing enough.
Situation One: Child does NOTHING. No matter what I do to try to help or modify, or give extra time – does N-O-T-H-I-N-G. Refused help from me, from aides, from everybody. Disrupts class, blows us off, and ignored every attempt made to help. But I am now suppose to do specialized assignments and only allow child to read part of a chapter – maybe for 5 minutes, and then let child do what child wants. And I was actually asked if there was an easier book to read – We are doing a unit on To Kill a Mockingbird. No. There is NOT another book to read.
Situation Two: Get yelled at by parents because their child is lying to them about assignments. You know what? I have NO control over what YOUR CHILD TELLS YOU. I tell you when child is not doing work, and you accuse me of lying because said child told you they did it. THEN the grades come out and you YELL at me for NOT TELLING YOU THE CHILD WAS NOT DOING WORK????
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
And people wonder about the state of our education system. Children have to pass these standardized tests. I have to teach them all this material in order to pass, and they fail. And it is “my fault” they have failed.
How the fuck can I get them to pass ANYTHING when they DO NOTHING and I have to allow them to do nothing because the people in charge agree to whatever the parents want. How the fuck does that work????
And the government wants to tie teacher pay to student test scores? Fuck that happy horse shit. Those test scores say nothing about my teaching and everything about the learning process. There is none because I am NOT ALLOWED TO REALLY TEACH. And I am CRITICIZED for teaching real material in a way that requires children to actually do something other than parrot.
I need a break. This is my sixth year teaching up there. Six years of this. Some shit all the time. This is not the first year I have dealt with this, and it won’t be the last. But this is the first time I have no ability to deal with it.
I need a break from stupid. That is what it amounts to.
::Hugs::
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