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Home Front: Culture Wars

Pa. teacher strikes nerve with 'lazy whiners' blog

2011-02-16

FEASTERVILLE, Pa. -- A high school English teacher in suburban Philadelphia who was suspended for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges "disengaged, lazy whiners" is driving a sensation by daring to ask: Why are today's students unmotivated -- and what's wrong with calling them out?
APee summarized version:
She called it as she saw it. Kids were spoiled, argued and were wanting a pass-and-go. No real different from any other kids out there today. Parents got pissed that their little snowflakes were called names and got the teacher suspended. Nothing really bad in the comments from the blog that was reported and nothing different from any teacher I know that talks about students. Anyway, read at link if interested.

Posted by:DarthVader

#6 the blog was no crime in my mind. The crime was her admission that she's been phoning it in the last year or two and didn't care about the kids, their grades, or all the super-motivational work we hear about whenever there's talk about trimming the Ed budget. She's an ed zombie. Find a new career

Posted by: Frank G 2011-02-16 22:02

#5 There have always been four iron rules for teachers, and they at least used to be almost the exclusive reasons that teachers would get fired.

1) Teach what you are paid to teach.
2) Maintain order and discipline in class.
3) Do not offend students, their parents, or the community.
4) Do not irritate other faculty, department head or administration.

All four of these things, teachers were *expected* to do, based on their training to be teachers.

In the case of incorrigible students, they were to be referred to the administration as soon as they demonstrated insubordination. This is based on the recognition that teachers cannot substantially coerce, so must rely on persuasion.

However, this has long been a conflict, because schools do not wish to expel students, as they will lose a substantial amount of State aid. Good schools will do so anyway, bad schools will just direct teachers to pass bad students, indifferent to their being educated, because once 18 years old, there is no further obligation to educate.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-02-16 13:06

#4 Spare the rod - Spoil the child.

Nowadays people are discourage from disciplining their spawn and the kids know this. Between this and the devaluation of achievement (no winners or looser anymore - it might hurt their whittle feelings...) guarantee a bunch of lazy whiners.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-02-16 13:02

#3 "School" has been devalued by subsidy and has turned into a crèche.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-02-16 10:49

#2 They are lazy whiners because they can be.

Corporal punishment is out. The society supports and in some cases encourages single mothers. Parents are too busy to focus because they both need to work to make ends meet in a reasonable fashion. The price of failure here isn't felt.

Yet.

Posted by: gorb 2011-02-16 10:42

#1 Out of control children who are backed by absentee parents, should invoke an immediate referral to Child and Youth Services for a house call.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-02-16 09:32

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