more thoughts re: yesterday afternoon's post

[lauralh]

So let's move forward to the premise that college is bad, because it encourages a culture of excess. Either you meet and fuck a shitton of people, or you drink too much, or drop too much acid, or just overdose on drama. And if you ain't doing any of that, you're probably working way too fucking hard on classes. There are very few careers where you have to pull all-nighters, ever.

But then again, it probably goes back to high school. The reason people explode in college is because their whole life up to that point, they've had to fucking ask permission to go to the fucking bathroom. Freedom is fun! and scary.

Something needs to be done. But not for me, I'm over it, I work for a living.

Comments

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I think that teachers should be forced to take a break every five years and do something else. A sabbatical if you will. Not just hang out and do nothing but do something entirely different. Go work in a restaurant or maybe travel. Just something that takes them away and teaches them something new. It might broaden their experience and maybe foster a sense of empathy.

I do have a lot of sympathy for many teachers because they are often held to various requirements and many don't want to do it. My Mom sorta sees this one teacher (that is a complicated situation) and he talks about how much shit he has to put up with from the school board, a community, state requirements and then the general politics from various teachers. He is a real bad-ass and works really hard to keep a lot of that away from the classroom. But at the same time it leaves him really exhausted.

[ex-motel666812.livejournal.com]

Yeah...plus, so many of the kids are poorly-socialized, because their parents just don't give a shit. It's all well and good for me to wish that teachers cared more, but the sad fact is, most kids don't deserve any kindness. They're animals--racist, classist, sexist, and stupid from being raised by TV since birth. Even if a teacher went the extra mile, it wouldn't matter to most of their students.

Oh, it's all just so depressing. :)

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[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

It is depressing. The part that depressed me the most were the kids who were six and everyone was giving up on them. The parents didn't seem to understand what was going on, the teachers were essentially placing the kid in one place and saying, "you are going to be a failure for the rest of your life" and everyone just went with it.

It made me leave.
My cousin was a teacher for a number of years and she left eventually. She said, "I left because I didn't want to hate kids or other people. It got to be too much."

[ex-motel666812.livejournal.com]

This is so, so sad. I wish there were more solutions, besides individual parents making the decision to home-school. We need systemic change, and we need it NOW.

My inclination is to encourage people who don't have the resources to home-school, not to breed. But of course, those are the very ones who ARE breeding. Thus, more thrown-away 6 tear-olds.

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