Teacher playing a Taylor Swift video

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

My friend is a homeschooler and she taught all modern history by analyzing songs.

I told her she should write it up and sell it.

She started with 20's I believe.

so much wisdom in music, the language is so rich and descriptive.

Her son wrote a paper called, how things have not changed... and there are multiple songs from the 60's about police shooting kids... rolling stones heartbreaker... but it was a HS class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For a teacher to play a music video where school age kids get intimate...There’re other intentions here.

Yup, or the teacher is just that stupid. Either way, it has no place in the classroom. I just watched the first minute or so of the two first music videos YouTube loaded up for Taylor Swift, and this for sure has no place in elementary school. The documentary on netflix about her has a rating of 13+ on common sense media - that's eight grade.

I am sure all the defensive moms on here will cling to the, "tell us what video it was defense," even though odds are OP probably doesn't remember because she is probably not a Tswizzle fan.

Given the age it was probably Love Story or You Belong With Me. Neither show “intimacy.” Nor do most other Taylor videos. You guys are such Puritans. JFC.

Yet, you don't have a clue, because well, you don't know. You weren't there. You are just guessing. Sorry if we don't want our daughters poorly influenced in public school at the elementary age, or sons to get the wrong impression.

Now go back to watching cuties, creating more content for your onlyfans, or donating to planned parenthood.

6th graders are technically middle schoolers everywhere else in the US. 6th graders have seen a lot worse. I hate to break it to you but a lot of the classics are not appropriate for 6th graders to read due to intimacy and other issues. You need to get a grip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

[Anonymous]

OP, how was your first day back at elementary school? Have you finished your homework?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, how was your first day back at elementary school? Have you finished your homework?

Don’t be cruel. There’s no way she could return so soon after yesterday’s trauma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a teacher to play a music video where school age kids get intimate...There’re other intentions here.

Yup, or the teacher is just that stupid. Either way, it has no place in the classroom. I just watched the first minute or so of the two first music videos YouTube loaded up for Taylor Swift, and this for sure has no place in elementary school. The documentary on netflix about her has a rating of 13+ on common sense media - that's eight grade.

I am sure all the defensive moms on here will cling to the, "tell us what video it was defense," even though odds are OP probably doesn't remember because she is probably not a Tswizzle fan.

Given the age it was probably Love Story or You Belong With Me. Neither show “intimacy.” Nor do most other Taylor videos. You guys are such Puritans. JFC.

Yet, you don't have a clue, because well, you don't know. You weren't there. You are just guessing. Sorry if we don't want our daughters poorly influenced in public school at the elementary age, or sons to get the wrong impression.

Now go back to watching cuties, creating more content for your onlyfans, or donating to planned parenthood.

6th graders are technically middle schoolers everywhere else in the US. 6th graders have seen a lot worse. I hate to break it to you but a lot of the classics are not appropriate for 6th graders to read due to intimacy and other issues. You need to get a grip.

Except here they are elementary students, but that is completely beside the point. Inappropriate content, and we are using MTV and Disney movies to teach kids about reading. What kind of a clown world are they operating here? This isn't your rock n roll in the 60s blowoff survey class you took in college, its kids trying to learn how to read effectively, and its failing by every possible measure. This is happening in what is held out as one of the best public school system in the country. Imagine what is happening in places that are worse off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

+1. I’d be happy to leave. Before you tell me this is my fault, I’m not part of any union and considering resigning at the end of the year. We can live on DH’s salary. If you can find someone to take my place I will leave now and I can help my own kids with DL instead of leaving them alone all day. Please. Take my job or find someone better qualified who doesn’t show videos in class.

[Anonymous]

Burn the books too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a teacher to play a music video where school age kids get intimate...There’re other intentions here.

Yup, or the teacher is just that stupid. Either way, it has no place in the classroom. I just watched the first minute or so of the two first music videos YouTube loaded up for Taylor Swift, and this for sure has no place in elementary school. The documentary on netflix about her has a rating of 13+ on common sense media - that's eight grade.

I am sure all the defensive moms on here will cling to the, "tell us what video it was defense," even though odds are OP probably doesn't remember because she is probably not a Tswizzle fan.

Given the age it was probably Love Story or You Belong With Me. Neither show “intimacy.” Nor do most other Taylor videos. You guys are such Puritans. JFC.

Yet, you don't have a clue, because well, you don't know. You weren't there. You are just guessing. Sorry if we don't want our daughters poorly influenced in public school at the elementary age, or sons to get the wrong impression.

Now go back to watching cuties, creating more content for your onlyfans, or donating to planned parenthood.

6th graders are technically middle schoolers everywhere else in the US. 6th graders have seen a lot worse. I hate to break it to you but a lot of the classics are not appropriate for 6th graders to read due to intimacy and other issues. You need to get a grip.

Except here they are elementary students, but that is completely beside the point. Inappropriate content, and we are using MTV and Disney movies to teach kids about reading. What kind of a clown world are they operating here? This isn't your rock n roll in the 60s blowoff survey class you took in college, its kids trying to learn how to read effectively, and its failing by every possible measure. This is happening in what is held out as one of the best public school system in the country. Imagine what is happening in places that are worse off.

Teacher here. We teach kids to read media as well. Reading is not just about reading books. Kids live in a digital world. We use a variety of sources in English class. If the teacher was showing music videos consistently, you could be upset. But using a music video to teach a concept is not going to hurt your child. Secondly, they are 6th graders. Not 3rd graders. They have a vast knowledge of pop culture and have probably seen worse. As you can clearly see from the many posters, most people think you are overreacting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

NP: It's very different to engage your own 1-3 kids that you have known their whole lives vs. teach 30 kids coming from different places, with different backgrounds, abilities and interests-in a classroom or on a screen. Surely you must understand that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For a teacher to play a music video where school age kids get intimate...There’re other intentions here.

Yup, or the teacher is just that stupid. Either way, it has no place in the classroom. I just watched the first minute or so of the two first music videos YouTube loaded up for Taylor Swift, and this for sure has no place in elementary school. The documentary on netflix about her has a rating of 13+ on common sense media - that's eight grade.

I am sure all the defensive moms on here will cling to the, "tell us what video it was defense," even though odds are OP probably doesn't remember because she is probably not a Tswizzle fan.

Given the age it was probably Love Story or You Belong With Me. Neither show “intimacy.” Nor do most other Taylor videos. You guys are such Puritans. JFC.

Yet, you don't have a clue, because well, you don't know. You weren't there. You are just guessing. Sorry if we don't want our daughters poorly influenced in public school at the elementary age, or sons to get the wrong impression.

Now go back to watching cuties, creating more content for your onlyfans, or donating to planned parenthood.

6th graders are technically middle schoolers everywhere else in the US. 6th graders have seen a lot worse. I hate to break it to you but a lot of the classics are not appropriate for 6th graders to read due to intimacy and other issues. You need to get a grip.

Except here they are elementary students, but that is completely beside the point. Inappropriate content, and we are using MTV and Disney movies to teach kids about reading. What kind of a clown world are they operating here? This isn't your rock n roll in the 60s blowoff survey class you took in college, its kids trying to learn how to read effectively, and its failing by every possible measure. This is happening in what is held out as one of the best public school system in the country. Imagine what is happening in places that are worse off.

Teacher here. We teach kids to read media as well. Reading is not just about reading books. Kids live in a digital world. We use a variety of sources in English class. If the teacher was showing music videos consistently, you could be upset. But using a music video to teach a concept is not going to hurt your child. Secondly, they are 6th graders. Not 3rd graders. They have a vast knowledge of pop culture and have probably seen worse. As you can clearly see from the many posters, most people think you are overreacting.

NOVA schools have the highest pass rates on reading SoLs, and are in the top 15% nationally in developmental reading scores and gains. So by what possible measure are they failing? (Oh and it should be "it's").

[Anonymous]

https://patch.com/virginia/reston/here-s-how-many-fairfax-county-kids-aren-t-proficient-reading

These people seem to disagree with your rosy picture of the state of reading in Fairfax County. Are you using different data to come up with your conclusion?

[Anonymous]

HI Karen!