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Teacher tell grads "None of you are special. "

  • Motown Spartan said...

    Did you even read it?

    probably not. he's just being Moose and unfortunately Forbin got sucked in

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  • Gob_Bluth said...

    Oh I'm sure the principal's office was immediately inundated with parent complaints because of this speech.

    I had a kid failing my class, and his parents threatened to go to the board of education over it. Couldn't possibly be the fault of the student who had turned in zero assignments.

    MrsGatorBill is a secretary in the counseling office at the local HS. She is extremely busy, every day. And she is essentially, that makes that office run. The last week of school this year she got a call from an irate parent INSISTING that my wife change her child's grade. "this is unacceptable and will NOT be tolerated. If this grade is not changed by the end of the school day, I assure you that someone will be fired for it"

    I wish that was not an exact quote. But it is.

    tMrs laughs about it now, but that was not a great day for her. Dealing with parents who think that little Bobby is special and deserves to be given things in life has to suck. I couldnt do her job, just because I couldnt deal with all the asshat parents.

    edit: thae parent wanted the grade changed from an F to a B. [LOL-ing out loud]

    This post was edited by GatorBill on 6/8/2012 at 9:18 AM

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  • Colonel Forbin said...

    Good. Parents need to hear this as much as the kids do. I beyond sick and tired of "unique" spellings of names and other BS that comes from parents these days. A name does not make them special. Accomplishments do. Parents are are more at fault than today's kids are for their entitlement issues.

    I love hearing complaints about parenting from someone that has zero experience with it...Based off your lifestyle and posting habits it sounds like your parents provided you with plenty of entitlement and you turned out all right.

    WarSpartans31329

  • Giant Moose said...

    I don't go around telling kids that they aren't special and that American society sucks. shrug

    What aspect of this statement is untrue?

    This post was edited by BostonUSpartan on 6/8/2012 at 9:26 AM

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  • GatorBill said...

    MrsGatorBill is a secretary in the counseling office at the local HS. She is extremely busy, every day. And she is essentially, that makes that office run. The last week of school this year she got a call from an irate parent INSISTING that my wife change her child's grade. "this is unacceptable and will NOT be tolerated. If this grade is not changed by the end of the school day, I assure you that someone will be fired for it"

    I wish that was not an exact quote. But it is.

    tMrs laughs about it now, but that was not a great day for her. Dealing with parents who think that little Bobby is special and deserves to be given things in life has to suck. I couldnt do her job, just because I couldnt deal with all the asshat parents.

    edit: thae parent wanted the grade changed from an F to a B. [LOL-ing out loud]

    When I was teaching regular ed, I only had 1 parent do that, and I laid down the law. She changed here tune in about 15 minutes. Alot of the male kids did not like me at all because I was forcing them to get ready for college. I was not on their backs about assignments, I wasn't on their backs about studying, I forced the kids to work for their grade and the parents loved my approach.

    It took the kids 2 months to realize what I was doing, but most of them fell in line...except for one kid where I nearly had to call the SRO on campus because I though his mom would be the crap out of him in front of me after calling home to tell his parents that he was in danger of not graduating.

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  • Giant Moose said...

    "Resist the easy comforts of complacency, the specious glitter of materialism, the narcotic paralysis of self-satisfaction," he urged his audience.

    ...and all the kids immediately wanted to leave and go get high.

    NigelUno

  • Colonel Forbin said...

    I freely admit that the arrogance of my generation is being blown up even more when we are having kids now. My parents were able to provide greatly for me, like most Gen Xers. I had a lot of things handed to me - I freely admit that. And many, many (not all, certainly) Gen Xers take that attitude of always having everything handed to them growing up, and instill that attitude times a factor of ten into their children. A lot Gen Xers have a false sense of accomplishment, if you ask me. If your parents provided for you constantly, buying you a car, paying for college, helping you get off your feet during your first job - well, you probably didn't really accomplish much on your own. But many of them think, in their minds, that they got everything that have because of who they are. And they're driving that attitude into their kids. They've never faced much adversity, and they think everything should come easy to them with little to no hard work. That attitude trickles down.

    This is a pet peave of mine, but I hate when every person that is younger than the baby boomer generation thinks they are "Gen X". You aren't Gen X (unless you are secretly 35+). And Gen X'ers didnt grow up in an era where everyone was rewarded for doing anything. That started with Gen Y.

    Binford4State

  • Binford4State said...

    This is a pet peave of mine, but I hate when every person that is younger than the baby boomer generation thinks they are "Gen X". You aren't Gen X (unless you are secretly 35+). And Gen X'ers didnt grow up in an era where everyone was rewarded for doing anything. That started with Gen Y.

    Which generation am I in? I was born in 1982. Wikipedia says I'm the end of Gen X or beginning of gen Y. I'm trying to decide how self important I need to be.

    Stils

  • ~Stils~ said...

    Which generation am I in? I was born in 1982. Wikipedia says I'm the end of Gen X or beginning of gen Y. I'm trying to decide how self important I need to be.

    You are a tweaner, so am I. Born in '79. I guess its like being born right on the last date of an astrological sign, who can say for certain which you are? So just go with your gut.

    Binford4State

  • Great speech. This is my old high school! Wow good memories.

    xGASMANx ●

  • Motown Spartan said...

    Did you even read it?

    I'm hoping he didn't read the whole speech because what he's saying makes no sense. The title of the article/thread is misleading. The speech is uplifting and in no way does he say America sucks.

    xGASMANx ●

  • Bob Sakimano said...

    America needs more teachers like this guy...

    If we paid them better maybe we'd have more teachers like this guy. But no, today we're told that teachers are already overpaid and are part of the cause of our country's economic woes.

    shrug

    LogicalBuck

  • LogicalBuck said...

    If we paid them better maybe we'd have more teachers like this guy. But no, today we're told that teachers are already overpaid and are part of the cause of our country's economic woes.

    shrug

    I wish we could have a good discussion thread on this subject but I know it will turn into a nuclear war so it's not worth starting.

    Stils

  • ~Stils~ said...

    I wish we could have a good discussion thread on this subject but I know it will turn into a nuclear war so it's not worth starting.

    Happened on the old board and on here. Many people told me that I sucked as a teacher when I failed a kid for not typing her paper...as stated in the rubric., despite me allowing her to use my classroom PC to type it in class.

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  • tJYD said...

    Happened on the old board and on here. Many people told me that I sucked as a teacher when I failed a kid for not typing her paper...as stated in the rubric., despite me allowing her to use my classroom PC to type it in class.

    There's nothing wrong with teachers but when they go on power trips like you did with that paper or the English teacher did with the first part of his speech...

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  • tJYD said...

    Happened on the old board and on here. Many people told me that I sucked as a teacher when I failed a kid for not typing her paper...as stated in the rubric., despite me allowing her to use my classroom PC to type it in class.

    you must have sucked as teacher for numerous other reasons....amiright?

    Motown Spartan ●

  • Motown Spartan said...

    you must have sucked as teacher for numerous other reasons....amiright?

    The kids hated me, the parents and staff loved me. I taught with a college-style, and made the kids responsible for their actions.

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  • tJYD said...

    The kids hated me, the parents and staff loved me. I taught with a college-style, and made the kids responsible for their actions.

    i was just busting your balls anyway.

    Motown Spartan ●

  • Colonel Forbin said...

    Good. Parents need to hear this as much as the kids do. I beyond sick and tired of "unique" spellings of names and other BS that comes from parents these days. A name does not make them special. Accomplishments do. Parents are are more at fault than today's kids are for their entitlement issues.

    Whatever you say Kernal.

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  • This should be repeated to all the Occupy Wall Street brats that are bitching that their sociology degree isn't getting them a six figure job.

    newberr13

  • You all are morons.

    ug...

    AvgMSUJoe

  • newberr13 said...

    This should be repeated to all the Occupy Wall Street brats that are bitching that their sociology degree isn't getting them a six figure job.

    Or the Harvard MBA grads, who think a million dollar bonus is owed them every year for being completely average.

    ug...

    AvgMSUJoe

  • The thing I find funny about morons bitching about "kids these days" are most of them were completely spoon fed their entire life up until they graduated from college (and many after)... but are motivated to the point of feeling shitty about the state of the country for those practices continuing.

    No one can ever lump a stereotype like the ones who recognize it in themselves.

    WAAA!!! THE 70's and 80's and 90's and 00's WERE HORRRIBLE!!!! WAAAA...

    Unless you lived through the great depression or WW2 Europe or drought stricken sub-saharan africa, kindly STFU cause you too had it pretty damn good.

    ug...

    AvgMSUJoe

  • He makes a good point in substance, but he does sound kind of bitter. Maybe he had one too many problem students this year.

    Its five o'clock somewhere.

    Hematoma

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