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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Exactly...................
Lots of immature ego around as well. Pants up, don’t loot.
8th grade prom?
conversating???
That’s what I thought too. Just another opportunity to confuse youngsters sexually.
I do not hold you accountable for your actions of only conversating with me through a Hallmark card and an $100 check .......
More validation of the abuse of language to fit a template of imprecise application of words because it sounds sophisticated and intellectual.
............. I would cry with much anger ........
Shades of "Resist we much" Sharpton
I feel like I have become neurotic because I am scared to be heartbroken like my mother
Well, there we have it. Men bad....no good m'effers and scoundrels keeping women down.
It is patently obvious that children in a heterosexual man/woman family are better off than a same-sex, or single-parent arrangement. There isn't a doubt about that. Homosexuals would have us believe it is equal to, but purely for political reasons. They don't really believe this themselves. For a lot of single-parents, it's just excuse time. Blame the man, blame the schools, the peers and even the schools. Just not 'me'. I'm doin the best I can.
He was having conversational relations with that man.
8th grade has a prom?
Perhaps one day they will revivetate their relationship.
One of the things, and perhaps the most important thing, that a ‘Dad’ can teach his son or daughter is not only what is ‘right’ but what is wrong................................
I grew up with some kids who lost their fathers in the war and they (and their widowed mothers) had an entirely different take on their one parent situation than do the hordes of fatherless black kids today.
Today most of the blacks who were raised without benefit of a father can’t drop their defensive posture long enough to take an unbiased look at what they might have missed out on.
Instead of holding single black mothers up as icons society needs a return to sanity.
Perhaps a return to shaming them into keeping their legs closed is what is needed.
The one thing that makes the irresponsible, animalistic black culture of today possible is federal government welfare money.
Young black men who work to provide for a family and spend their time raising their own children spend less time gang banging, stealing, looting and burning.
I can relate........................
$100 check?
I would not be hesitative to say that they need to reconcilify their advertisinal relationshipedness.
“8th grade prom?”
We had it, believe it or not. I attended private school and it was tradition to have our sister school as our partner. Supposedly, it’s to train you for the actual prom years later.
Fathers in the military did not reject their children.
Granted, some sperm donors aren’t allowed by the women they breed to engage in a relationship with the kids. But there is a desire to avoid paying for their trophies among certain men.
Right, and to dread the shame of bad behavior.
A sense of shame is missing, so many have nothing to put a cap on themselves when things are going in a wrong direction.
FReepers can be really cold. This is a very good article; the decisions of a horny young man and a desperate young girl can hurt for generations. The moral of the story is, don’t have unprotected sex until you are married. Then stay married.
Just bearing infants helter skelter hurts everyone.
For decades we have been told a lie, e.g. that fathers are not necessary to raise a child. Now we are seeing entire generations damaged because a strong father figure is not in their lives.
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