Important notice from the GRAMMAR POLICE. Plz read. This means you.
psikfreak:
Quote from: Perez Hilton on 2009 June 03, 04:13:28
Since you asked so nicely... I am not a teacher. I know teachers, live with teachers, and I volunteer with teachers. The reason I have not been fired, is simply because they are grateful to have a little help, despite the fact that there is too much work for me to finish. My job includes grading mountains of papers for very overworked teachers. I see what they are up against with the enormous class sizes my teachers are saddled with now. By the way a teacher's job description does not include any specific way they must grade papers. Their job is to teach, and most of them do the best they can with what they have. In our current economic situation, teachers are not even allowed to make photo copies anymore (in my district) much less given any other type of supplies. Everything comes out of their pocket. They receive very little respect, no understanding, and far too much abuse. What I have seen has caused me to change my career choices completely, because there is no way I want to mess with any of that. The last thing I want is to spend all day trying to teach today's horrible children, just to have them mock you, destroy your materials, and then have their equally nasty parents come and scream at you for their own failures.
Why am I bitching? I wasn't bitching before, but now I am! The reason I replied is because I felt your comment showed the typical amount of ignorance of what it actually means to try to do this job, and I'm confident that I am right. I'd like to see what you look like after just one year of trying to keep 200 teenagers alive, much less teach them something that they don't want to learn.
Oh, yay. Edited those extraneous quotes out correctly. Small things.
Now, I've had my MATY account dumped at least twice that I can recall. Why? I am not one of the Awesome people around here. I can see the site in full from guest view so virtually never log in. Why? Because, to reiterate, I am not one of the Awesome people around here. I come, I use search, I rarely attempt to post because I know I am not one of the Awesome people.
When I do post I exercise caution in what I say and how I say it. Why? It's MATY. For the same reason I warn people I meet in the Sims community to try all available remedies for their Sims ailment before coming here. And to humbly list said attempts before asking for help. Imbeciles are the favorite chum for the denizens whom lurk within MATY.
I skipped over the majority of the posts -for which I will stand still and take my lumps. I was not going to post, however seeing, well, what I would call verbal diarrhea if said to me in person, in your post I changed my mind.
Last time I checked part of teaching was checking to make sure your students are learning. That is done with homework and tests. Which, must be graded to ascertain if a student is learning. Therefore, grading papers is a part of their job. Whether stated in small words for individuals of dubious intelligence such as yourself or as an implied responsibility of their position.
If teachers in your district are not allowed to make copies take it up with the PTA, school board, superintendent, etc. It has no bearing on the discussion at hand.
Teachers in this day and age (in the USA) receive very little respect, no understanding, and far too much abuse because society and the government permit it/refuse to support them. Again, this has no bearing on the discussion at hand.
Further, today's children are 'horrible' because their parents are to self-absorbed and incompetent to raise a child. Society makes excuses for those children, e.g. they come from underprivileged homes, etc. And finally because people like you was their hands of them. It's so much easier than tackling a problem that you haven't created but could remedy.
You think teachers get the short end of the stick, try being a school bus driver for three years for everything from elementary kids from the local ghetto to spoiled high school brats. Try working in a teacher's assistant capacity in the most underprivileged elementary school in the city. Finally, try doing behavioral management with a therapy firm for an entire year with elementary students born premature, treated like animals, and sexually abused to high school kids who's only goal in life is to join a gang and die in a drive by.
Nobody goes into any of those for kudos, pats on the back, or warm fuzzies. After doing the required time as a student teacher any individual going into the field who doesn't grasp the thankless nature of the position is blind, ignorant, stupid, what have you. And they get what they deserve.
I personally go back every year to drive a bus because if, after all the abuse and nonsense, I've reached one child, gotten one child to think, made a difference, an impact then I have succeeded. And that's ALL the thanks I need, my warm fuzzies, etc.
Oh, and for the record -you can't teach anyone who doesn't want to learn. What you can do is try to motivate them to want to learn through various means. Somehow, I do not think you would be good at that, given the attitude you've displayed. And I am thankful you are not a teacher. Children need a firm hand. Limits and rules. They also need hope -something you are sadly lacking.
Now, as for egregious spelling and grammatical errors. I will run this through Word, it will tell me it has everything fixed, and I'll believe it because I don't see them. But you don't hear me whining about it. I attempt to remedy the problem. Have I failed, will I fail? Yes, and most likely. But I bloody well tried and here at MATY effort is noted and appreciated. Not whining, bitching, and making pathetic excuses.
morriganrant:
Quote from: rohina on 2009 May 30, 21:36:45
It is also possible to be so stubbornly ungrammatical that you get an exemption in the form of Teflon or lifetime Teflon. Examples: morriganrant, Tigerlilley and Bangelnuts.
Only popping in here to say that I do not mind the sporking, not that I needed to give permission. How else will I learn? In the years that I have been here, lurking or otherwise, my written presence has improved substantially. This should be an indication of how poorly I was doing before. It was quite frightening. Now writing such as that causes me to cringe, and my eyes glaze over in defense.
kiki:
Quote from: rohina on 2009 June 06, 07:27:44
I would admit to being busted, but there is no DQ in Sydney, so sucks to you, Kiki. If only I had kept that tenure track job at UNSW, eh?
Oh but there is now :D It's near Chinatown and going there after 3pm will probably get you knifed, but it's totally worth it. We've got Coldstone now too, so yeyz! DOLLAR DOLLAR TIP, BITCHES.
GelatinousSubstance:
Quote from: psikfreak on 2009 June 06, 07:47:38
After doing the required time as a student teacher any individual going into the field who doesn't grasp the thankless nature of the position is blind, ignorant, stupid, what have you. And they get what they deserve.
My sentiment exactly.
Stitches:
Am I the only one that feels that any teacher that needs to outsource their grading is DOING IT WRONG?
*edit: I am not talking out of my ass here. I have several years of being a TA and am working on my credential concurrently with my degree.
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