What the hell makes you think that the average (or even above average) parent is some kind of educator. My wife teaches kids every day. It took her five years to get a degree to do so. You think you know the first thing about teaching a 6 year old to read? Sure we can all read, but can you teach phonics to a child. I am sick of this arrogant attitude that we are all smarter than teachers. They spend countless hours learning teaching methods and kids learn more and are smarter than ever before. My daughter is in kindergarten and reads on a 1st grade 6th month level. I didn't learn to read in kindergarten and I am a well paid computer programmer these days. Just imagine where she will be when she is my age. Could I have taught her to read? Of course not. What a stupid thing to even ponder. I don't know the first thing about teaching her to read. The problem is that no one is willing to admit that a kid might just be stupid these days. That's right... stupid. Some people just aren't smart. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself. There have always been stupid people and there always will be. But the difference is that these days, if a kid isn't making straight A's, its the teacher's fault. If my kid is doing poorly, the whole school just sucks and they ought to fire all of those incompetent teachers. What kind of bull is that? They can't all be brainiacs and the curriculum gets tougher every year. That's life. It makes me sick every time my wife gets a nasty note from a parent. It goes something like this... "Dear parent, your child hasn't brought in his home work for a week and is going to detention for it.... etc. " the return note reads... "Dear Teacher, Johnny just needs some positive re-enforcement to build up his confidence. I feel that you are just too negative and he is responding poorly to your attitude." What a load of horse crap! Now, is the public school system breaking down here, or do we have a bunch of single mother's raising too many kids. I am tired of all of this poor me and my poor kid crap. Let's get real. Home Schooling my foot! What a fiasco!
All kids want to be viewed as different. We all struggled for an identity in High School. Its called rebellion. A lot of us were nerds when being a nerd wasn't cool. I spent many a night in front of my Timex computer hooked up to my 13 inch black and white TV writing programs in Basic. What we didn't do was post the "Anarchist's Cookbook" for the world to see and we didn't make enemy lists or talk about killing any of them. If you are a student and you post crap about how to make Pipe bombs and design them for maximum kill efficiency, you ought to get into trouble. And I darn sure don't want those kinds of people on the same campus with my children or my wife. That's how a lot of people feel and I agree with them 100%! Every time I see a web site about Anarchy and it has a disclaimer about being for "educational" purposes only, it makes me want to puke. I don't care if you want to paint your face white and worship death. But school is not the place for it. School is a place to learn. Find your identity and wear ear rings all over your body on your own time. I'm not saying that people are right in this retarded witch hunt to out nerds. That is insane! These are good kids for the most part. They are super sharp and motivated. But if you cross that line... no whining when they bust you for trying to make plastic explosives in your parents garage. If you join that dance, your gonna pay the piper.
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What the hell makes you think that the average (or even above average) parent is some kind of educator. My wife teaches kids every day. It took her five years to get a degree to do so. You think you know the first thing about teaching a 6 year old to read? Sure we can all read, but can you teach phonics to a child. I am sick of this arrogant attitude that we are all smarter than teachers. They spend countless hours learning teaching methods and kids learn more and are smarter than ever before. My daughter is in kindergarten and reads on a 1st grade 6th month level. I didn't learn to read in kindergarten and I am a well paid computer programmer these days. Just imagine where she will be when she is my age. Could I have taught her to read? Of course not. What a stupid thing to even ponder. I don't know the first thing about teaching her to read. The problem is that no one is willing to admit that a kid might just be stupid these days. That's right... stupid. Some people just aren't smart. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself. There have always been stupid people and there always will be. But the difference is that these days, if a kid isn't making straight A's, its the teacher's fault. If my kid is doing poorly, the whole school just sucks and they ought to fire all of those incompetent teachers. What kind of bull is that? They can't all be brainiacs and the curriculum gets tougher every year. That's life. It makes me sick every time my wife gets a nasty note from a parent. It goes something like this... "Dear parent, your child hasn't brought in his home work for a week and is going to detention for it.... etc. " the return note reads... "Dear Teacher, Johnny just needs some positive re-enforcement to build up his confidence. I feel that you are just too negative and he is responding poorly to your attitude." What a load of horse crap! Now, is the public school system breaking down here, or do we have a bunch of single mother's raising too many kids. I am tired of all of this poor me and my poor kid crap. Let's get real. Home Schooling my foot! What a fiasco!
All kids want to be viewed as different. We all struggled for an identity in High School. Its called rebellion. A lot of us were nerds when being a nerd wasn't cool. I spent many a night in front of my Timex computer hooked up to my 13 inch black and white TV writing programs in Basic. What we didn't do was post the "Anarchist's Cookbook" for the world to see and we didn't make enemy lists or talk about killing any of them. If you are a student and you post crap about how to make Pipe bombs and design them for maximum kill efficiency, you ought to get into trouble. And I darn sure don't want those kinds of people on the same campus with my children or my wife. That's how a lot of people feel and I agree with them 100%! Every time I see a web site about Anarchy and it has a disclaimer about being for "educational" purposes only, it makes me want to puke. I don't care if you want to paint your face white and worship death. But school is not the place for it. School is a place to learn. Find your identity and wear ear rings all over your body on your own time.
I'm not saying that people are right in this retarded witch hunt to out nerds. That is insane! These are good kids for the most part. They are super sharp and motivated. But if you cross that line... no whining when they bust you for trying to make plastic explosives in your parents garage. If you join that dance, your gonna pay the piper.