My students are dumb...just completely and utterly dumb

[Anonymous]

My children's elementary school teachers at a well-known and highly touted public ES struggle to communicate clearly in simple emails to parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Why have so many people turned this back against op? What is that about? Can't you take what op says? Often when people can't deal with it, they lash out. Dcum seems to prove that point on this thread

Op, hang in there.

Let's see. If you want people to understand what you're going through, maybe don't say the kids are "dumber than dirt." If that's how you express yourself, especially when referring to kids your are in charge of, then I have no respect for you.

[Anonymous]

This is a troll. Kids in 2023 aren’t on Twitter and sure as hell aren’t on Facebook with their grandmothers.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how much these phones are impacting basic literacy. Even speaking for myself, I used to read books, newspapers, magazines all the time, but really don't anymore. As a kid I was a huge reader, and I don't think kids are anymore.

Well, you used "impact" as a verb, so it's definitely taken a toll on your literacy.

Oh, dear. I’m so embarrassed for you.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impact#dictionary-entry-2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how much these phones are impacting basic literacy. Even speaking for myself, I used to read books, newspapers, magazines all the time, but really don't anymore. As a kid I was a huge reader, and I don't think kids are anymore.

Well, you used "impact" as a verb, so it's definitely taken a toll on your literacy.

"Impact" is both a noun and a verb.

Only as of late. Historically it's a noun. Over time it has become a verb as writers of business-ese have made a verb out of it.

Neat. Irrelevant, but neat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny. Today my daughter came home and complained about her teacher who spent 20+ minutes ranting at her students for being lazy and not knowing anything. We are Southern Maryland.

Enjoy your upcoming meeting with admin.

Aww, you’re precious.

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Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, what are you doing to reach them and inspire them?

What are the parents doing to inspire their kids?

What are administrators doing to support teachers who really WANT to instruct kids. What we're doing now is simply pseudo teaching. Grades mean nothing. There's no discipline policy that protects teachers and kids who WANT to learn. Administrators cave to central office.

It's the same everywhere. Education is a joke.

My own kids know not to enter this field. In fact, they know we won't pay for college if they head into education.

So, PP, you're part of the problem - always blaming teachers for societal ills. You can't teach kids who are emotionally blocked. You can't teach kids who are hungry. (And, no, a cinnamon bun as part of a free breakfast isn't going to solve the problem.) And you can't teach kids who aren't there half the time. and my favorite? "reaching the kid" who wears an ankle bracelet for some sexual offense

I'm sure you want your daughter seated next to him, eh?

This job is a joke.

Do yourself and everyone else a favor and quit your current job immediately. Do not take another public-contact job, ever.

Keep running your ignorant yap this way. It will go SO WELL for you and your children.

[Anonymous]

Six-year-old thread, people.

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Anonymous wrote:I work as a teacher in a Southern Maryland High School and I have to say 80% to 90% of the children are dumber than dirt. They lack the intellectual capacity to even spell simple words like "though" or "their". I'm not trying to talk against them but I wish they weren't so damn dumb. All they care about is Facebook, Twitter and other stupid stuff.

I am a college instructor in developmental skills classes (read remediation for people who didn't study in high school or who went to lousy high schools). Lots of dummies in September. Good news is that they can actually change and learn to think and many do really improve and turn out not to be so dumb after all. Don't lose hope.

Those kids aren't dumb, they are ill-prepared. The OP and the rest of the lazy ineffective 'teachers' who take jobs in low-performing elementary/middle schools and don't even try because its so much easier to just blame the kids are responsible for that. Thanks for not giving up on them.

You spelled “parents” wrong.

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t start in HS. I see a lot of elementary grade kids, and unfortunately many of them lack not only background knowledge but most importantly intellectual curiosity. Many also don’t seem to be too bright, but nothing is as important as that curiosity.
As you can imagine they don’t use SM yet. Maybe it’s the families that are also not curious - but their classmates from similar families are strikingly different in that regard (and how “smart” they are.
I am leaning towards 90% nature and maybe 10% nurture tbh
And then these kids are so deep in a rut by as early as 3rd grade that they just can’t get out without intensive personalized tutoring and mentoring. Add to this undiagnosed LDs and there you have it.
The sweet spot for catching these kids is around 1st grade. I think an experienced teacher can see it but teachers are generally too tapped out and maybe even a bit jaded that they won’t/can’t do anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Six-year-old thread, people.

Now that you mention it, there is a surprising lack of COVID scapegoating

[Anonymous]

It’s because the elementary curriculum doesn’t teach them to spell. My the time they reach middle school, the majority of students are reading and writing below grade level. They are not dumb. Schools are failing to teach them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given that OP has difficulty punctuating....

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Six-year-old thread, people.

Spurred on at 3am last night. There's a rage-poster (probably a teacher) in the DC schools forum that also went nutballz at 3am last night.

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Anonymous wrote:So circle their misspellings in red ink, mark them off for it and have then resubmit with corrected spellings for a better grade.

They won't know what they are doing wrong if you don't TELL them!

That’s funny. Most kids at these failing schools don’t submit homework for the first time, let alone correct it and resubmit. They don’t care