Posted on 05/23/2017 12:14:33 PM PDT by simpson96
Between the dresses and tuxedos, the tickets, and the ride, it’s easy to spend a lot of money on prom. One teacher who noticed that people were splurging on prom as opposed to, say, school supplies, expressed her opinion about it publicly — and is now being punished.
On May 12, Caitlin Cormack, a middle school teacher in Bedford, Ohio, took to Snapchat to express her frustration with students and parents choosing to overspend on prom but not on school supplies or a tutor. “These damn kids and parents … not enough money for school supplies or passing grades but out here renting horses,” Cormack wrote over a selfie. In the photo, she looked frustrated.
According to News 5 Cleveland, a parent confirmed that “renting horses” refers to the horse-drawn carriages that took some students to prom Friday night. It appears a few parents follow Cormack and complained about the post. Now she’s been put on administrative leave.
The school’s superintendent, Andrea Celico, told News 5 Cleveland that “the incident is under investigation” and that she was “disappointed in what has happened.”
Celico added that Cormack “is very saddened by this, and it’s certainly a hard lesson to learn for everyone.”
So what’s the big deal? “I think it’s very disrespectful to the parents,” John Bouldin, the parent of a senior at Bedford High School, told News 5. “We do pay taxes in this city, so that teachers can make a nice salary to do their jobs, not to comment about our kids.”
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Better not to Tweet and make people question if you’re stupid than to Tweet and remove all doubt.
There is now “Prom” in junior high?
Oh good grief....
Proms are an anachronism, a throwback to a time when that formal dance represented a young person’s entrance into the adult social world. They should go by the wayside, but they won’t because too many people make lots of money on them.
Is it? I guess it depends on your browser. It’s large font with Windows. Same font size but with bold type in IOS.
Who knows anymore? I see lots of x’s where others see pictures.
Keep in mind that very often it’s the same parents who fund these obscene choices that will complain that they can’t afford to pay for their young ‘uns college educations.
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Well said.
what did she think was going to happen when they opted to eliminate textbooks in favor of tablets?
Problem is, as soon as those tablets can access the internet, they are going to be used in ways the school doesn’t intend. And since most of the kids are so much more tech savvy than the adults issuing the tablets, I don’t know how you avoid it. The L.A. school district tried to issue “crippled” iPads and they were “uncrippled” very quickly.
Mmmm Prom has nothing to do with a high school diploma.
Teachers are supposed to model good vocabulary and grammar. She should have said “Those damned kids....”
Disrespectful to the parents?
Erma Gawd these sweet little things are hopeless
The word damn ain’t necessarily a curse word
You raise a great point about "learning the technology", an important part of today's tech world. As I see it, my son was learning about the capabilities of that tablet, though he should not have playing games in class.
I may be painting with a broad brush, but I've seen way too many teachers with an attitude, an expectation that they have unlimited access to parents' time, and money. Booster clubs, "write-a-check" programs, etc. If you don't acquiesce, the clear message is "you don't love your child."
I've got news for them: they can KMA. I've done two things for my 3 children (30, 28, and 15) that they can never take away from me: I made sure they were born in Texas, and I taught them how to swim.
Anything else is gravy. lol
As humorous as that might be, referring to stupid as “these damn kids” is not conducive to a healthy professional relationship.
Not disagreeing.
Why would they put her on leave for telling the truth?
Given she’s sitting in a car on the snapchat, I kind of hope she was sober.
Remember, snapchat isn’t public. THe snapchat might not even ‘exist’, in most cases they are generated, get sent to the people who are the “friends”, and then deleted.
You generally have to register to follow a person on snapchat. And you can set it up to require a confirmation, or you can leave your snapchat open.
So the people who saw this are her followers (as it said in the article), people who signed up to get her unfiltered comments.
But no, some idiot parent is so butt-hurt by being called out that they had to go to the authorities? That’s one of many things wrong with our country.
Yep. And so the school has reasonable rules that any child could easily understand and follow “Don’t put unauthorized things on the official school tablets”
And then a kid does it anyway, because he doesn’t know how to follow rules, or doesn’t think rules apply, or because everybody does it.
In this case, at least, the parent was willing to take the appropriate action of disciplining the child for breaking a reasonable rule.
Although we don’t need to then berate a teacher for this, or blame it on “getting rid of textbooks”. We need to give kids a chance to easily break rules that are easily followed, so we can then punish the ones that break the rules, so they learn discipline.
There are probably really good uses for the tablets that are disabled because we can’t trust parents to teach their kids to follow rules, can’t trust kids to follow rules, can’t trust parents to care that their kids aren’t following rules, and so we lock the things down for everybody to protect us from the few that can’t follow simple rules.
Reminds me of people who spend thousands of dollars on a picture book wedding when they don’t own a pot to piss in.
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