My ninth graders used to mke fun that I didn’t know world war craft or so, so proud of their knowledge of how to use computers etc.
I’d say, charitably and with some humor and a litlle respect, ah, I knes guys, like my dad and his military academy peers who invented computers and devised the ways to get them into households and they were learning this stuff I’m trying to teach you while they were in high school. Knowing how to use it, bah, try inventing it.
Get back to work!
They’d bury thier heads and come back dishing the dirt on Cassius and Huck Finn.
These kids, they might not like it, who does, but they are hungry for the truth and they know itwhen they see it. THey love a challenge. They love the competition.
They know they need it.
They love survival skills weaons fire cooking all tat stuff.
I do not like to underestimate them.
But how many students stand face to face with a teacher like you?
Very few.
The brainwashed, misguided, corruptible teacher is now the norm.
Aided and abetted with a curriculum that languishes in mediocrity and self serving ideology.
Kids do "love a challenge and competition."
That's why they sleep in the classroom and take solace in their computer games.