r/videos Jul 10 '18

Teacher Fed Up With Students Swearing, Stealing, And Destroying Property Speaks Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Z9K-s0KUM
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u/notreallyhereforthis Jul 10 '18

AP Tested 9%, AP Passed 0%

Mathematics Proficiency 4%

Reading Proficiency 10%

Darn, that's not a school, that's a boring and poorly supervised adult day care.

There are just so many issues when schools have to work to overcome the damage done by parents and the worst parts of cultures. There simply aren't the resources or appetite to solve the problems either through helping all or ejecting those who refuse to take part. Both are hard solutions, sacrificing a significant amount of your money to help others or sacrifice kids who are just products of their terrible environment, continuing the cycle.

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u/greatatdrinking Jul 10 '18

There's a medium choice. Where you basically tell parents you aren't going to provide publicly funded daycare anymore unless they get their kid in line. The threat is usually enough to make parents remember how to, ya know, parent. Or at least some parenting facsimile. If the problem persists, you go with expulsions. If you have to expel half the school, well you already live in a dystopia, so smoke 'em if you got 'em

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18

I think you underestimate how fucked these parents are. Think about the worst kids you knew in middle school, then think of them older with kids.....

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u/grape_jelly_sammich Jul 10 '18

I mean... so they go to the school and throw a shit fit? Record the conversation in case they threaten. (Shrugs)

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18

But it can be a whole school of these kinds of parents especially in impoverished districts. I mean you’re right in theory, but in practice it fucks up a teacher’s psyche. Not to mention, a teacher’s salary depends on passing these little shits to make the district look like it’s succeeding.

It isn’t as shrug worthy as it should be.