Educators Piss Me OFF!

What’s with these so-called educators today? Why is it that when they fail at something, they blame everyone else. They blame the kids, their parents, society, technology, and anything else that they can pass the buck to. Their failures result in the gross undereducation of American children and sorry excuses for teaching methods like Ebonics. Who talks like that? I mean for real. If kids aren’t picking up proper English why would you burden them with ANOTHER vernacular?! It’s this mentality among many of the educators in this country that really lights my fire. They assume that since the children aren’t learning, it must be something OTHER THAN THEIR METHODS that is keeping the kids from acquiring the requisite knowledge.

The newest dying art in America is penmanship. Kids aren’t learning, or rather, aren’t being taught to write in cursive anymore and the blame, so bloody obviously, is falling on technology. Kids are using instant messaging and text messaging on mobile devices and they’re not learning how to write, furthermore they’re barely learning to print legibly. This if course is the fault of society, the parents, the kids, and the technology. The educators take no blame of course. Maybe if kids were held properly responsible for learning and writing in cursive, they’d actually learn it and be good at it. I come from a generation where your handwriting style was one of those things that helped to define you (aside from the silly handshakes with your friends, your favorite song, and those orange Cross Colors jeans you wore in HS). Now I guess your e-mail signature and buddy icon are what separates you from the others.

Tags: education, government, Me, politics, reading

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June 9, 2003 | Filed Under Me 

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