One more time, this is the old guy, retired highschool teacher, and pilot.
I realize that this is not a forum on education. However, if you folks will allow me to, I need to respond to a gentleman who posted a response to my original " Airplanes and Kids " posting, wherein he states that the youngster she coaches during the summers are so neat, good, and motivated.
I'm sure they are. Good for him. Those young people are the cream of the crop. He's lucky to be working with them. I'm sure they're there because they want to be. They're the kind of youngsters that make a man proud.
Now, lets examine the other side of that issue. Let that same gentleman teach in a public high school in this state or any other state of his choice. Most of those kids are not there because they want to be. They have to go to school. If they're in special education, our government dictates that they can stay in public school until their 23rd birthday. Are men and women that age children? No they aren't.
Let that guy handle 20 students per hour, seven hours a day that are constantly strung out on narcotics. That have no problem with shooting and stabbing each other at school. That sell narcotics in the hallways and rape students in the bathrooms.
That physically and verbally abuse teaching staff every hour of every day.
Here in New Mexico, that kind of stuff NEVER makes the newspaper. It happens every day in lots of high schools in the state!
How about telling me those kinds of kids were common years ago? I know that guys wrong. I did it for 36 years before I retired.
Combine that with parents who don't care, won't make their little darlings behave, and blame all that crap on teachers. In a meeting a few years back, I had one " Mommy ", who slept with most of the men in town, go so far as to state that not only was it the fault of every teacher her 15 year old demented son ever had, but it was also the doctors fault, that delivered that animal, that he was completely insane. She had even prepared a list of all of us who had ruined her son's personality. The only two people who weren't on it were " Mommy" and " Daddy". Heck, I'm willing to pass the blame along. All those doctors that delivered all those little lunatics are the ones to blame. Leave us old schoolteachers alone.
Throw in school administrators that are afraid to confront parents, won't back their teachers, and will do anything to keep their own jobs - at the expense of everyone else involved.
I grew up in Roswell, New Mexico. When I misbehaved in high school, I got my rear end warmed up, and when my Dad found out about it, I got my rear end busted again.
We don't DARE do that to a high schooler now days. They've all got their civil rights, you know. They also have this thing called a psyche. Can't do anything to damage their psyche. Might damage their personalities for life.
My old Chemistry from my high school days didn't know about psches, but he darned sure knew how to make me shut up and behave with that big oak paddle. I love him to this day. To heck with the psyche.
I, for some strange reason, already knew how to read, write, and perform mathematical calculations before I got to high school. I know, us kids down there in Roswell were just so gifted we knew how to do our school work and no one else in the U.S. knew how. If you believe that, I've also got the Golden Gate Bridge for sale - cheap!!!!!
High schools now are war zones, not schools.
Am I old and burned out?
Yes I am.
I stick by my position. Most kids are not what they were years ago. I doubt that years ago, the high schools, nationwide, were producing graduates that were completely illiterate, in fantastic numbers.
Wake up, buddy, your swim team is NOT typical of high schooler stoday.
I realize that this is not a forum on education. However, if you folks will allow me to, I need to respond to a gentleman who posted a response to my original " Airplanes and Kids " posting, wherein he states that the youngster she coaches during the summers are so neat, good, and motivated.
I'm sure they are. Good for him. Those young people are the cream of the crop. He's lucky to be working with them. I'm sure they're there because they want to be. They're the kind of youngsters that make a man proud.
Now, lets examine the other side of that issue. Let that same gentleman teach in a public high school in this state or any other state of his choice. Most of those kids are not there because they want to be. They have to go to school. If they're in special education, our government dictates that they can stay in public school until their 23rd birthday. Are men and women that age children? No they aren't.
Let that guy handle 20 students per hour, seven hours a day that are constantly strung out on narcotics. That have no problem with shooting and stabbing each other at school. That sell narcotics in the hallways and rape students in the bathrooms.
That physically and verbally abuse teaching staff every hour of every day.
Here in New Mexico, that kind of stuff NEVER makes the newspaper. It happens every day in lots of high schools in the state!
How about telling me those kinds of kids were common years ago? I know that guys wrong. I did it for 36 years before I retired.
Combine that with parents who don't care, won't make their little darlings behave, and blame all that crap on teachers. In a meeting a few years back, I had one " Mommy ", who slept with most of the men in town, go so far as to state that not only was it the fault of every teacher her 15 year old demented son ever had, but it was also the doctors fault, that delivered that animal, that he was completely insane. She had even prepared a list of all of us who had ruined her son's personality. The only two people who weren't on it were " Mommy" and " Daddy". Heck, I'm willing to pass the blame along. All those doctors that delivered all those little lunatics are the ones to blame. Leave us old schoolteachers alone.
Throw in school administrators that are afraid to confront parents, won't back their teachers, and will do anything to keep their own jobs - at the expense of everyone else involved.
I grew up in Roswell, New Mexico. When I misbehaved in high school, I got my rear end warmed up, and when my Dad found out about it, I got my rear end busted again.
We don't DARE do that to a high schooler now days. They've all got their civil rights, you know. They also have this thing called a psyche. Can't do anything to damage their psyche. Might damage their personalities for life.
My old Chemistry from my high school days didn't know about psches, but he darned sure knew how to make me shut up and behave with that big oak paddle. I love him to this day. To heck with the psyche.
I, for some strange reason, already knew how to read, write, and perform mathematical calculations before I got to high school. I know, us kids down there in Roswell were just so gifted we knew how to do our school work and no one else in the U.S. knew how. If you believe that, I've also got the Golden Gate Bridge for sale - cheap!!!!!
High schools now are war zones, not schools.
Am I old and burned out?
Yes I am.
I stick by my position. Most kids are not what they were years ago. I doubt that years ago, the high schools, nationwide, were producing graduates that were completely illiterate, in fantastic numbers.
Wake up, buddy, your swim team is NOT typical of high schooler stoday.
