Article in NYT today re: students, tik tok and targeting teachers

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Anonymous wrote:This has been going on for a while. An 8th grader made a MySpace page for my mom ( his teacher) about 15 years ago and said all sorts of horrible things about her. Kid wasn’t punished but had to take down the page. You all need to catch up.

Which, of course, caused your mom such permanent damage that forced her to live in van down by the river.

DP. Like I said a few pages ago, you can almost always see where the kids get it. The kids who do stuff like this very rarely have good parents.

It's a lot more nuance than that. Parents and children are operating under an environment where everyone is under assault from wealth and powerful tech companies world wide. It's akin to letting companies pour megatons of heroin into the aquifers and lakes and pipes, and then blaming parents for not properly filtering the water their kids come in contact with.

I’m a teacher and a parent. I respect your point, but this environment doesn’t excuse parents from parenting. I’ve been carefully teaching my own children and my students how to navigate these influences.

I’m afraid that, for many, the nuance you address is out of sight. Some parents simply don’t care what their kids are doing or what their kids are exposed to. I’ve met these parents at conferences. They don’t even know the teenager they birthed, and it’s sad.

Almost like people act different ways around different people and in different environments? Shocking.

So you’re suggesting that these parents are merely acting like they don’t know their own kids? What would be the point of that? How do they benefit by acting like uninvolved and disinterested parents? What a completely nonsensical post.

Wow. Woosh. It might be time for retirement for you. Unless you're an English teacher, in which case you don't really do anything anyway.

When you identify yourself as a child, I lose interest. Keep in mind I deal with children every day, and I know they resort to personal attacks when they have nothing constructive to contribute. I suppose we’re there.

I can tell. I deal with highly educated and skilled adults all day at work, so I expect people to be able to follow along in discussions.

DP. You must bring them coffee. Highly educated and skilled pivoted fine to online--knowledge workers can work remotely, remember? And it was nice to have the kids at home. Why don't you start your own thread about school closings instead of hijacking this one?

The PP you’re responding to has been throwing barbs at teachers for a while now, and I believe is the same one saying teachers deserve being harassed.

Best not to engage. (Not worth it anyway.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous you cannot tell me that at some point in your life whether it was elementary high school college that you didn't make a comment or make fun of a teacher only we and you didn't have cell phones to post it!! Yes they did go a little too far but who's fault is that the people that said you cannot crack your child on the bottom or slap their hands for things they did wrong for giving them the freedom of life as kids that they should only have as young adults now you want to say they're mentally ill Any kind of problem all of a sudden everybody's mentally ill what has this world come to I guess there are no longer anything people at 76 years old I am sorry to see what's happened to the United States of America and how people are being put down and ostracized and having their lives destroyed and now you did this to these kids now you want to destroy their lives forever shame on you

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New teachers are supposed to be adults whatever happened to sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me!! Start acting like adults don't destroy these kids lives yes they went a little too far that doesn't mean they're mentally ill they were having fun and they got carried away and now you wanna destroy their lives forever shame on you you're not acting like adults you're acting like a kid!!!