Posted on 11/08/2017 1:42:06 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Some 80 years ago, the American government produced a pamphlet encouraging people into work.
It explained that being idle was just about the worst thing imaginable because it meant the loss of self-respect, pride and hope. By contrast, it went on: 'Let's look at what work does for us. Work keeps us from going nuts.'
I sometimes wonder what would happen if our Government distributed such a pamphlet today.
How long would it take for people to demand an apology? How long before the first online petition passed 10,000 signatures?
For one thing, there is that incendiary world 'nuts', which would have mental health campaigners steaming with outrage. But even worse, surely, is the emphasis on hard work.
You might wonder what on earth is wrong with hard work. What's so bad about putting in the hours, knuckling down and getting something done?
Well, just ask Eddie Ledsham, of Wallasey, Merseyside. For as the Mail reported yesterday, the 22-year-old has just left the teaching profession after being unable to cope with what he considered as a nightmarishly back-breaking workload.
As he admitted in an online video, he had been warned by his tutors that his first year in the job, teaching eight-year-olds at a school on the Wirral, would be tough.
Alas, not even this prepared him for the 'astronomical' burden to come.
As he explained, he had so much to do that he found himself thinking about it 'on the train to and from work'.
Because he stayed late to devise his lesson plans and mark pupils' work, he sometimes did not get home until 6.30pm. (I know — 6.30! No, that is not a misprint.)
But even that was not the worst of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
You’ll get your chance tonight, sweethaht ...
Weeney Whiney Woe Warning!
Needs a few years in the Scottish Regiments.
My non-snowflake sister taught for 35 years, kids with learning disabilities. It actually was a tough job. The school system viewed her students as losers, they dumped kids into her class who weren’t truly disabled in order to brag about the teacher-student ratio in other classes.
She had to turn in individual lesson plans for each student versus just one lesson plan for a class. She was harassed about using too much copy paper to the point she went to Staples and paid for copies herself. She stayed late, took work home, bought a lot of supplies herself. She still loved the job.
If you’re going to be a good teacher, it will be tough.
“When I first read the story, I wondered if Mr Ledsham was being serious. But he appears to be genuinely shocked that he sometimes had to work after watching the football.
Still, since Mr Ledsham is only 22, perhaps he can be excused a little naivety.
But I think his story is part of a bigger trend, reflecting the values of a generation who have been taught to shun the world, rather than to embrace it, and seeing themselves as victims, rather than as doers.
You have probably read about the emergence of a ‘snowflake’ generation in our universities, who take offence at the slightest provocation, demand ‘trigger warnings’ before classes and campaign to have supposedly racist statues torn down.
But these students have not sprung into life from nowhere. They are the products of a wider culture of self-indulgent victimhood, not just in our schools, but in millions of homes.
And now, of course, they are growing up. They are not just schoolchildren with scrubbed faces, or students suffused with moral indignation.
They are now becoming parents themselves, passing on their sense of entitlement to the next generation. ...”
This kid is better off working at his local Starbucks and living on cereal and peanut butter sandwiches.
There are people promoted to their level of incompetence.
He topped out early.
It’s inevitable here too. The oldest millennials will be eligible age wise to run for President in 2020.
For starters, Ledsham ‘suffers’ from laziness, a selfish sense of entitlement, and the kind of stupidity that imagines that money grows on trees.
Wear an fire proof suit and helmet...dance up to the furnace with a pipe and shoot oxygen at the plaug to start the molen iron flow.
Our furnace was a lot bigger than the one shown above...I remember each run was several hundred tons.
plaug = plug
they dumped kids into her class who weren’t truly disabled in order to brag about the teacher-student ratio in other classes.
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Not only that, but also to bolster their standardized test scores. Spec ed kids’ test scores aren’t figured into the general ed population’s test scores, so it makes their school look better. Also better for the gen ed teachers who don’t have to have the kid who will pull down her class’s test score averages. Teachers are evaluated on their students’ standardized scores.
Under No Child Left Behind, every sub-groups’ test scores counted. Every minority imaginable, free/reduced lunch, special ed, all had to have a set level test as ‘proficient’ or above. Each year the % required was increased. At some point 100% were expected to test at ‘proficient’. The impossible expectation was why the plan had to be scrapped.
Special ed kids did have modifications on their tests, but their scores were counted. If one subgroup in one school didn’t meet the goals, the whole district was scored as ‘not meeting goals’. Crazy.
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