Posted on 05/18/2015 6:30:41 AM PDT by servo1969
It's been a troubling semester, but not because many of my students passively and/or actively resist the knowledge that I try to pass on to them. It's been frustrating not merely because government regulations and mandates have made me into a secretary filling out a myriad of online forms. It's been disheartening not only because leftist propaganda surrounds me and I am but one small voice in the academic desert trying to teach true American core values.
No, it's been a sad and sometimes heartbreaking semester because many college students' assorted troubles are related to the fact that they are bereft of wholesome father figures. The combination of resentment, hurt, anger, and defiant pride run through their writings. It affects everything they do, from having trust issues with the opposite sex to taking direction from anyone they view as an authority figure. Most carry an enormous chip on their shoulders and take offense at the slightest thing.
Now that I am older I see that you no longer hold that title for me to call you dad. Your absence in my life did not hurt but definitely helped me. I do not hold you accountable for your actions of only conversating with me through a Hallmark card and an $100 check on the inside to make it seem as though as if that was to help my mother or help me. Growing up I would always question where were you on important days like birthdays, Christmas and my birthday or even my 8th grade prom.
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He’s an old guy that is only concerned with getting his rent money on the 1st. This renter is a scam artist that has the system down pat. He’s playing the ‘disabled’ victim of an automobile accident, waiting for his ‘big insurance settlement’ to come thru, and has all the ‘perks’ even to having the trash people com and get his trash can off the carport to be emptied by the auto loader, and the mail is delivered to his door, since they have a ‘walk up delivery’ sticker on his mail box. He never leaves the house without his ‘walking cane’ but he doesn’t need it and fears that the insurance company has spies that are trying to catch him. You can always tell when the first of the month is here because his EBT card is now refilled and he and his friends party all night and day. I’m pretty sure he gets his rent subsidized by taxpayers...............
Yep, it is amazing the proliferation of such expensive activities in public school. 8th Grade (Intermediate School) Prom, Junior Prom (10-11th grade) and Senior Prom complete with limousine and dresses that are more expensive than a wedding gown a30 years ago. parents get to be hit up continually for these sorts of things.
“If I were given the opportunity to spend a day with someone in my past, it would be my father who passed away when I was five years old. If my father were here I would be so happy because I was the only daughter and he spoiled me and treated me like a princess. When he passed I went to school and all I was doing is crying. After a week I got kicked out of school because every time I went to school I wasn’t doing my work; all I was thinking about was my father. I miss him so much. I wish he was around to tell me good advice in this world. I make my own decisions and sometimes they are wrong. If my father were here I wouldn’t be working two jobs and going to school at the same time. I always needed a father to talk to me when it comes to boyfriends and men and how I should be treated. “
This comment is heartbreaking. I’m wondering just how many people around me have stories like this one. I’m thankful for having two great parents who raised me and stayed together. Not everyone has that.
Beating up on Obama again...
It's the gerund of conversationalization ...
Sad situation I guess all you can do is move.
No, he will eventually get caught...............
Maybe someone should report him.
I don’t know which insurance company he’s contending with.................
Keeping their legs together puts a ceiling on their welfare checks.
I hate cheaters!
http://www.cheaters.com/
It's a pretty good show, actually!...........................
How many don’t have fathers because their mother divorced their father and got the Court to block his access to them in order to spite him?
More common than people realize.
And that’s not to say that the mothers aren’t responsible for their own behavior. Imagine the heartless attitudes that are being passed on from mother to child or father to child. Think that person will be compassionate or self-sacrificing? Not very likely.
What a screwed up government.
The government pays for mothers to abort their children if they don't want them.
But if they let the children live the government pays the mothers money every month to take care of them.
For those who complain about absent fathers, watch what your mother does instead of what she says or dramatizes. You’ll eventually figure it out.
If you destroy the family, you destroy the society.
Why?
Because in destroying the family you create unhappy people. People who cannot cope. People who are unable to interact with others. After a while it reaches a tipping point.
I believe that culturally we are almost at that tipping point.
What is it with the slow walking in the middle of the street? I’ve just recently began encountering that.
We had some renters in the neighborhood and the children would walk outside and just release whatever was in their hand (wrapper, whatever) in their front yard. I had never experienced that before. I mean, it’s a few feet to get inside the front door and then surely there is a trashcan nearby once you are inside, right?
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