Let me preface how my views on education have evolved. I no longer desire to be an educator, ever. I have learned a lot about myself this semester and realized how my personality does not do well with the way administrators relate to teachers and how parents and truthfully, the rest of America, blame teachers for every problem within our school system and every dysfunctional adolescent.
So a little about my day so far, I hear my teacher, lets call her Ms. R, she's yelling to these kids at her door for them to get away and go back to their class. She then yells at one of her students, "Are those your little hood rat friends!?!"
This is typical.
Previously, she has made it a point to raise her voice to this one particular student that is serving his second term of the 8th grade. She told him to pull up his pants because "he just looks GAY!" she exclaimed.
Fired. She should have been immediately fired. A student should have said something to somebody, but no one came and told her to clear out her desk. I think the administrators are afraid of her.
To add insult to injury, her way of making this situation better, was to explain how her and her gay cousin were walking the mall the other day and they passed a guy with his pants sagging and she said, "his pants are sagging." Her mythological cousin said, "No, that means he wants it, he's sending me a signal."
And that is the most politically incorrect, ignorant situations I have witnessed thus far student teaching.
I honestly regret not starting this from day one. My first day a teacher got punched not once, not twice, but thrice in the face trying to break up a fight in the girl's bathroom. Another 8th grade girl was caught having sex in the front of the building with a 7th grader in the boy's bathroom in my first week.
A teacher I do not know last Thursday had a brunch party for his 40th birthday when we were supposed to be in a grade level meeting. He had dollar bills safety pinned to his shirt. We listened to raunchy, not even good rap that students could most definitely hear if passing by, and we sat there with our shrimp & grits. This same teacher later that day essentially canceled his last period class to have a party. Yes, canceled class to have a party. He should be fired as well. He cranked up the music again began serving cake and chips.
