02-12-2011, 07:50 PM
(02-12-2011, 07:13 PM)Cracker Wrote:(02-12-2011, 06:04 PM)username Wrote: Regarding Dick's posts, I think there is some truth there about opportunity. I've spent a lot of time in my kids' classrooms over the years. Beginning in kindergarten, I was AMAZED by the number of kids who showed up late, didn't bring in homework, regularly missed school, got in to trouble etc. etc. I've watched those some kids over the years and it just continues and seems to get worse. These kids started out their lives with parents that don't give a fuck about education and don't have any expectations for their kids. Will they be able to go to college? Maybe a community college but hell, they've been brought up to have little regard for school. I agree that at some point, we have to take responsibility for ourselves but I feel badly for these kids--they're fucked from the gate and they don't even know it.
They have teachers in the schools to help them. They don't just leave them to their own devices all day.
Does it make it harder on a person to be raised that way? YES. But it isn't a death sentence. People aren't animals that are bound by their training. We have free will. Any person that desires more or better DOES have the option. Generational poverty isn't written in stone. There are too many success stories of people who rose above the circumstance of their birth and early life and now live productive, happy lives.
It's a trap. If you allow yourself an out, most weak-minded people will take it. If you hold yourself to a higher standard, you can overcome anything. Even if your parents are shit.
Holy shit, you're not racist, you're ignorant.
Teachers don't give a shit about the struggling student, they spend their time with the achievers, those who have a hard time in school are deemed (special education) needs children, or those who act up because they see others getting the attention who really don't need it because their parents are involved are ignored even further by the teachers because they act up.
I dealt with some of this shit when my kids were in school, I actually had a teacher call me on the second day of school and tell me that my kid was not going to make it in his class, I set up a meeting on the 3rd day of school with him and the principle and I ripped his ass up that silly sumbitch learned a little bit that day He was required to see to it that every kid made it in his class, after all it's his job to reach all the kids right not just his favorites, by the way that particular kid was a skater, he dressed different and wore his hair different,talked different but he was not a bad kid and was absolutely not dumb and unable to learn this teacher just got all fucked up by appearance and forgot that their was a kid under that shit.
teachers are no different than anyone else, they want the recognition of the over achievers in their class, they want to be associated with a student winning the scholarship, they don't have time to spend with the ones who really need them.
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