I witnessed another reason why the current generation is going to be worthless in the workforce.
Popcorn.
I noticed a tide of students walking down the hall with hands full of popcorn. I recognized them because they are one of my best examples of academic basket cases. I followed the popcorn back to their previous class and saw the teacher standing in the door pouring popcorn into outstretched hands. She was buying them off.
One of the ways that some people control their class is bribery. They give out candy. They take them to Burger King. They have pizza parties. I have had half my class come late with large drinks and pizza containers because the previous teacher was buying them off. Guess who ends up with soda and pizza on the floor? It isn’t the previous teacher. Guess who pays for his bribery.
It becomes a mind set. I have students who have done no work for two months ask me if they can have “extra credit”. Can you imagine someone who has not been to work all week coming in on Friday afternoon and asking for overtime? They learn it in school. We just had a meeting with a parent. We are nine weeks from the end of school, in the second semester. The student had three failed classes first semester and is failing three now. In my class he started with a D- and currently has an F. His highest moment was a D. The parent comes and demands to know what we are doing wrong. Why is his son failing? Civility and slander laws prohibit us from answering honestly.
Another snowflake in the making.
Brace yourselves.
homo unius libri
aaargh!!!! People like this frustrate the heck out of me! Props to you for continuing to deal with it.
ReplyDeleteOnly for a few more months.
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Obviously genetics.
ReplyDeleteI like to ask people like this if they think it is heredity or environment.
DeleteGrace and peace.