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Pa. teacher strikes nerve with lazy whiners blog – Yahoo! News.
A teacher everyone's had.
Oh yeah. Tough love is not just good. It’s necessary.
Honestly, i don’t see how her comments are out of place. There are a shocking number of students like that. It’s an honest blog and not borne of acrimony. The honest, concerned frustration is palpable.
It is completely unreasonable for a school to expect a teacher (or any other superhuman) to deal with say, 4 classes with 30 difficult students each. Even if you could motivate these ‘lazy whiners’, splitting a 6 hour day into 120 parts of one-on-one time is simply impossible. Even in world leading China, Taiwan and Singapore, educators are becoming aware that it is mathematically unfeasible for teachers to provide the quality time that parents are increasingly shirking, and then expecting teachers to deliver.
And bloody hell. Parents, be parents, not just friends. Bringing yourself down to the child’s maturity to connect is fine, but doing that all the time and giving in constantly is a recipe for a blind-leading-the-blind relationship. Everyone loses.
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