[...]Is the Average American Stupid? | Un-Liberaled Woman[...]…

[...]Is the Average American Stupid? | Un-Liberaled Woman[...]…

Tortured, beaten, bullied, excluded, Many of us wanted to learn, to read philosophy, study physics, algebra, calculus, etc. Now we cease to care about the future. As well the society made up of the same crappy people we went to school with. These fools and morons haven’t stopped my self education, which I dare say the quality and quantity of which far exceeds the entirety of my public education.

Do NOT feel sorry for me for escaping from a daily eight hour hell, to which I would have preferred death. I don’t desire pity, only that society and the people within it change. If things don’t soon change I fear we’ll all be living in a third world country with people incapable of maintaining the technology we have become so heavily reliant on.

1) I’ve seen a woman dressed like a tramp in $130 heels, $120 jeans, and a $55 sweater (cleavage to her pierced navel) and typing on a $450 blackberry to schedule her $140 hair appointment explain to her daughter that she didn’t have enough money for her daughter to play flag football ($15 pay to play.) I paid for the girl. She needs what football has to offer. (She became a pretty good quarterback, too.)

2) I’ve seen a ‘mother’ driving diagonally across the parking lot almost plow into our principal’s car while sipping a latte, smoking a ciggie (with her infant in the back), and yapping on a cell phone respond to his rather polite ‘blip’ on the horn to let her know he was there by flipping him off. (How DARE you tell me you’re there so I don’t hit you!)

3) I’ve had a dad “try” to chew me out because I wouldn’t let his son play football because his grades are 3 Fs, 2 Ds, and 1 C. (I say “try” because, frankly, I don’t play well with others and daddy don’t intimidate me.) “I took two hours off of work to come see him play!” “Well, sir, since his grades are available online you probably should have checked them before you did something that stupid.” “Are you calling me stupid?” “Not at all. I’m calling your actions stupid. Do you mind if I go on coaching this game here?” Sheesh.

4) I’ve been in a meeting where a woman demanded that her son had ADD or ADHD (she wasn’t sure which.), and refuse testing (paid for by the state.) She also exploded at me when I asked one simple question, “I have never seen your son without a can of Monster or a bottle of Mountain Dew in his hand. How much of that does he drink on a daily basis?” (My renter works ar Starbucks. At least once a week he has to field the question, “How much is a child size latte?” “We don’t have one, lady, because CHILDREN should not drink ESPRESSO!”)

5) I had a parent storm across the field this year and berate the opposing coach for throwing the ball when they were winning by two touchdowns. (I am something of an expert on coaching youth football, having written two books on the subject, so please trust me when I say A: youth teams complete about 19% of their passes at this level. B: The entire third string offense was in for the other team, so it was Johnny Benchwarmer throwing to Billy Cantcatch, and C: It’s not the opposing coach’s job to keep the score down; it’s MY job to coach my team so that we don’t get into that situation. The opposing coach had his lesser athletes on the field and was purposefully selecting plays with less than a 20% chance of succeeding.) I had to remove her dumb ass and then apologize to the opposing coach.

6) I teach computer use. My class must be performed in the computer lab; there is no homework and no provision for assigning it, since some students don’t have computers in the home. I had a student fail because mom and dad took him (already getting a “C”) to Hawaii in October– less than two months after summer vacation ended. I made a specially modified curriculum for the little bastard that he didn’t do while he was gone for THREE WEEKS, and when he returned it was somehow my fault that he was failing, not his lack of work. (Again, mommy and daddy don’t scare me. They tried to have words with me, and I handed them the same packet that junior had failed to complete. As of now, that packet is still not completed.)

I could continue. The bottom line is that Americans are stupid, selfish, and spoiled. We demand it easy, and when we don’t get that we whine and cry and bitch and moan until someone gets tired of putting up with us. This is why we lose wars: it’s not convenient to keep fighting them. This is why we’re losing Afghanistan and Pakistan, and why we’re going to lose Iraq. This is why we’ll happily bow to North Korea and Iran. We simply don’t have the stones to stand up for what’s right any more. We’d rather watch “So You Think You Can Dance.”

That baby crying in the theater– his parents will soon learn to shut him up by giving him whatever he wants: candy will probably be the start. Then it will be toys, video games, and other playthings. By the time he’s in middle school his sense of entitlement will only be eclipsed by his sense of moral outrage whenever he’s asked to do anything he doesn’t want to do, to include schoolwork. When asked “where do you want to be in five years?” as an eighth grader his response will be a blank stare. By his freshman year his attendance will suffer and he will probably have tried sex, alcohol, and pot at least once.

You want to know something horrible? I’m in only my second year as a teacher and already I’m sick of the… PARENTS. I love the kids. I get up every morning and can’t wait to come to school to see these kids. I stay after so I can be around them. I coach multiple sports to spend extra time with them.

But I hate the parents. I HATE the parents. I damn well H-A-T-E the parents. Of the 120 students I currently have, I think maybe six of their parents deserve them. I’m watching one young man undergo disciplinary action after disciplinary action because his parents don’t friggin’ care. Underneath his tough guy exterior he’s a good kid with a lot of potential, who was never taught right from wrong, and never taught to endure consequences.

He won’t make it to his freshman year. He’s in seventh grade was was expelled for harassment. If a parent had cared two years ago when he first got into trouble… that’s what is going to eventually drive me out of teaching: the parents that don’t care and waste their kids as a result.

But, hey, the Obamanation said that children are a curse and a burden after all.

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