Because It's Monday and Because I'm Inherently Lazy
I often e-mail the glorious creators of Rate Your Students and today, they posted one of my rants. Now my vitriol is infecting the Internet like Ebola Zaire. Woo-hoo for me and my bitterness! (By the way, in case you don't know, Bitter is the New Black. I'm not just angry for my health. I'm angry because it's in fashion.)
EDITED TO ADD: If you do go visit Rate Your Students and read my rant and you happen to be a K-12 teacher, please do not think I have no respect for you and your extremely difficult job. My mother just retired from 30 years of teaching in a very rough, urban middle school. She is the real mad grammarian and yet, her formidable skills were not enough to help these kids who had (on a good day) a third grade reading level. My rant was really more about the students and the national (it would seem) effort to make "everybody feel better." And much of it was based on the book I keep raving about - Generation Me. Perhaps I am back-pedaling a bit, yes, but again - as the daughter of a dedicated K-12 educator, I couldn't sleep at night if you all thought I was pointing the finger at you. I was pointing it at, um, gob. Yes, that's right! Gob.
EDITED TO ADD: If you do go visit Rate Your Students and read my rant and you happen to be a K-12 teacher, please do not think I have no respect for you and your extremely difficult job. My mother just retired from 30 years of teaching in a very rough, urban middle school. She is the real mad grammarian and yet, her formidable skills were not enough to help these kids who had (on a good day) a third grade reading level. My rant was really more about the students and the national (it would seem) effort to make "everybody feel better." And much of it was based on the book I keep raving about - Generation Me. Perhaps I am back-pedaling a bit, yes, but again - as the daughter of a dedicated K-12 educator, I couldn't sleep at night if you all thought I was pointing the finger at you. I was pointing it at, um, gob. Yes, that's right! Gob.
Labels: Kids Today, Manic Rants
posted by Teacher lady | 9:19 AM
6 Comments:
*laughs* I read my blogs in alphabetical order, so I got to RYS first, and totally recognized the email from your sidebar and came over to check to see if you'd written about it. And you did not disappoint! You should bombard them with your bitterness as often as possible; both your posts on that blog have been interesting (plus, of course, what you write here!).
Point a finger at MTV, not Gob, because they are the true devils here.
Congrats on getting some recognition! You deserve it. You should write a novel based on how shoddy education is right now. With how you met your husband stories peppered in (because I am still waiting for the next installment)
why do we always feel so naughty visiting this site?
don't be afraid to spank us if we go wrong...
xoxoxo
RYS
I've never heard of Rate Your Students before, so thanks for pointing it out.
And I promise not to let being a Kinder-Grade 6 teacher sway me from being bitter. Hoorah!
Rate Your Students. I love it!
Woo-hoo indeed for bitterness!
No offense taken- there are many times that we in the high school trenches look at our students in absolute wonder- THIS is what we have to work with? Oy.
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