This is very disturbing. The practice of 'long thread' teaching and learning will only be enhanced by eliminating distractive tools during the years of instruction on critical thinking.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
Someone wrote that a long time ago, but I cannot for the life of me find out who.
Before starting down the slope of my rant, please know that there's a sincere tip of the chapeau to you, and all who teach.
Particularly children. Extra particularly high school children.
I couldn't do it.
I wouldn't do it.
I spent 3 years in high school and 27 in a jail. I found jail much more enjoyable and school much more confining.
I still have a faint scar in the palm of my right hand from pole vaulting a 6' fence to get away when the choice was between someone droning on about Marx's Manifesto or spending the day in the back of a '72 Nova listening to Van Halen while smoking weed.
Je Ne Regrette Rien.
Violence, inanity, mind-boggling boredom, to the point of cruelty. Institutionalization. Cattle, moving through a production line. And that was before SOL's. By all reports, that's much better now, right?
Still, I grow concerned any time I see someone using "they" and them" to describe a group of people.
I suspect that each child tells their own story, same as each adult. Should the one who is checking in on their hospitalized mother suffer along with the one checking out the new song craze?
I don't know, but do you?
It's the nature of children to act out, isn't it?
And it's the nature of their teachers to be so close to the action to lose perspective that it is a phase of life, not the end of the world.
So first, have faith.
In both them AND yourself. They might surprise you.
To misquote Ned Stark, "summer's coming.....". Take a break, maybe things won't look so bleak in the fall.
Realize that high school age humans are at the peak of their sexuality, and sociality. All human evolution depends upon it.
So Karl Marx is probably not at the top of their agenda, nor should he be. No matter what someone in Richmond thinks they should know.
In the meantime, if you gotta do something, I would suggest not going the war on drugs route. Didn't work for them, won't work for this. Do it systemically, and apply it to teachers as well as students. We have the technology. Have had it for a while.
Create either classroom size or building size Faraday cages. No signal, no problem.
Articles about storage pouches for students while in school seems like a great idea to me. Collect them in the morning and return them at the end of the school day. Hopefully, the cost isn’t prohibitive.
This is very disturbing. The practice of 'long thread' teaching and learning will only be enhanced by eliminating distractive tools during the years of instruction on critical thinking.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
Someone wrote that a long time ago, but I cannot for the life of me find out who.
Before starting down the slope of my rant, please know that there's a sincere tip of the chapeau to you, and all who teach.
Particularly children. Extra particularly high school children.
I couldn't do it.
I wouldn't do it.
I spent 3 years in high school and 27 in a jail. I found jail much more enjoyable and school much more confining.
I still have a faint scar in the palm of my right hand from pole vaulting a 6' fence to get away when the choice was between someone droning on about Marx's Manifesto or spending the day in the back of a '72 Nova listening to Van Halen while smoking weed.
Je Ne Regrette Rien.
Violence, inanity, mind-boggling boredom, to the point of cruelty. Institutionalization. Cattle, moving through a production line. And that was before SOL's. By all reports, that's much better now, right?
Still, I grow concerned any time I see someone using "they" and them" to describe a group of people.
I suspect that each child tells their own story, same as each adult. Should the one who is checking in on their hospitalized mother suffer along with the one checking out the new song craze?
I don't know, but do you?
It's the nature of children to act out, isn't it?
And it's the nature of their teachers to be so close to the action to lose perspective that it is a phase of life, not the end of the world.
So first, have faith.
In both them AND yourself. They might surprise you.
To misquote Ned Stark, "summer's coming.....". Take a break, maybe things won't look so bleak in the fall.
Realize that high school age humans are at the peak of their sexuality, and sociality. All human evolution depends upon it.
So Karl Marx is probably not at the top of their agenda, nor should he be. No matter what someone in Richmond thinks they should know.
In the meantime, if you gotta do something, I would suggest not going the war on drugs route. Didn't work for them, won't work for this. Do it systemically, and apply it to teachers as well as students. We have the technology. Have had it for a while.
Create either classroom size or building size Faraday cages. No signal, no problem.
Moving on.
Darn kids are walking on my lawn, dagnabbit......
This was a fun comment to read, btw.
Articles about storage pouches for students while in school seems like a great idea to me. Collect them in the morning and return them at the end of the school day. Hopefully, the cost isn’t prohibitive.