We were reading a story in class by a noted black writer. I was recapping the plot (which involves a misguided youth trying to steal a women's purse, and her subsequent smacking the shit out of, then feeding him) and I asked the students what the boy did wrong.

The response surprised me, though I have no idea how I'm surprised by anything anymore - given the high caliber of students I babysit. Needless to say I was expecting the rather simple and straight forward, "robbing the lady."

I received instead:

"Dem boy shoulda had a gun. You can't rob no one without gun." Another youngster said, "He should practiced more times robbing. He stupid if an old lady was able catches him." I reiterated my point and added that if you rob people, you eventually got caught and go to jail.

I then told the class not to rob people. They said, "Why not?" I responded, "Would you like someone to steal from you?" I took the student's soda. I asked if he saw my point. He said, "What the fuck are we talking about? Why you take my soda. I thought we were talking about a story."

We keep reading the story. I ask students to make an inference why he was stealing. One said, "maybe he need to eat". I said, good. I then asked, if that would be justified. Students had varying answers, mostly varying from "Yes, in this case, to it's always OK to steal if you want something."

We continue. It turns out the boy stole because he wanted to buy nice clothes. I ask the students if this was a need or a want. One student says, "A need." I ask if anyone disagrees. "Another student says. You right, you need shoes." I ask if you need expensive shoes like Air Jordans.

Another student says under her breath, "Mister be frontin and trying to act cool talking about jordans and shit, is teaching us stupid nothing bullshit."

Another student calls out, "Mister, this story a long time ago, why we reading this shit, it's old news?"

The student who raised his had continues, "If you need shoes anyway, you as well steal good ones."

A chorus of "Yeah, you right." Follows.

*FACEPALM.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306410)

LOL ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306899)

Honestly, seeing these kids everyday brings my faith in humanity to new lows. Their complete lack of any sense of morals or basic living skills, grammar and spelling is depressing. They don't do anything, they try to steal from you. If I wasn't bigger than them they'd probably try to hit me.

I do my job as best I can, but everyday I wonder - Why help the barbarians who will eventually sack Rome?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306502)

About half the class actively steals things. I won't give a kid a pen anymore without collateral.

I also have to lock everything up - my whiteboard markers, me red pens, everything. They steal shit constantly. I brought in an EXTRA LOCK to deal with child theft.

I wanted to put up a camera, but you need to get the parents' permission

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306439)

gas these kids

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306463)

One of the kids (7th graders) drops his wallet. A glow in the dark condom comes out. Unashamed, he begins making openly sexual comments to the girls in the class like, "Want me to use it," rather than hurriedly putting it away like one would've done when I years older, in high school.

I tell him - "Put that away now and quit the comments before I get you suspended for sexual harrassment." Then I say, "You're in 7th grade, why do you need condoms?"

Then 6-7 other students take out there's and start saying - "I got mine too." Some tried to start trading them like we used to trade baseball cards at that age. I told them to put them away or I'd confiscate them. I did. CONFISCATING CONDOMS. In 7th grade.

America's future. Thanks libs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306466)

I would like to have given the girls a coupon book full of tickets to the abortion clinic for Halloween, like the old McDonalds coupon books.

http://webfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/mcdonalds-halloween-coupon.jpg

http://www.couponersunited.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mcds.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306518)

STFU you goddamn ironfaced chinkfag.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306849)

I'd call his father, but he doesn't give a shit. I've called him already. Just gave him another detention.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306881)

He's trying to get me something for next year. His son didn't go into teaching, so he's willing to pull in some markers for me that he was saving for him now that it's fairly obvious junior is going to be working the same job for the foreseeable future and not teaching. He couldn't get me something for this year for someone not already in the system. Now that I'm in it, he can do more.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307859)

I'd rather laugh than cry, brother.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19308026)

YOu are alia, you are a clit dicked mentally ill asain male who jerks off into his sisters panties. You couldn't even retire for one day. EAT SHIT PEDO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306936)

The other teachers hand them crayons and say, "Good luck," as they pass them through the system and they're increasingly illiterate.

Also, go fuck yourself. What have you done lately for these kids? Your attitude is the most profound kind of racism, and it infects certain liberals to an extraordinary degree. I hold these kids to the same standards I'd hold my own kids. They fucking fail miserably. You hold poor black kids to a standard that is unimaginably low and penalize people when they admit a problem is there. Saying you can barely add by thetime you hit HS is OK is as racist than yelling "Nigger!" at every child. It's the soft racism of lowered expectations.

The inevitable class valedictorian writes in Ebonics. She'll pass the state exam (which is all our libpedo admins care about), but she'll probably never graduate community college without help. I work with her. On my lunch. They don't pay me extra for that you fucking faggot. I throw the ball around with the boys when someone they know dies. I brought in a bicycle pump last week because their ball had no air. It's not like on TV, there's no thanks. No gratitute except from maybe 1 or 2.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19306984)

Do us all a favor. Take a swan dive off the ivory tower.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307031)

When someone else is doing something, it's always easy, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307165)

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2007/10/bizarre_school_game_leads_to_s_1.html

Bear in mind this is an 'A' school. I teach in an 'F' school, which is much worse.

Things like this wouldn't make the papers, the kid gets suspended and you'd get suspended pending investigation, then fired, or reassigned.

Some people (mostly out of touch types) really do not get what this is. I'm not teaching head of the class or and angry that "those darned kids are on my lawn" guy. It's a tough age and these are really tough kids who come from a deficient sociocultural environment.

I've physically pulled kids apart on several occasions. I'm a big guy, so it's no big deal. If you're some 5'6" asian lady, you can't do this job.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307432)

Some little bastard tried shit like this in my class one time ranting about Muslims aqnd Africans get more attention, taking jobs, etc. threw him out. A lot of the (American) blacks are tremendously racist against Africans and Arabs. Africans hate American blacks, too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371970/Osman-Daramy-12-faces-hate-crime-charges-trying-tear-hijab-girls-head.html

I'm surprised the kid's African, though. Most of them come from good 2 parent homes.

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/teachers-just-arent-motivating-these.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307990)

1)this wasn't me. i don't post on saturday nights, boo.

2)smh @ you spending your saturday night posting about me.

3)everything you posted about me is wrong. slutty? lol even jwu agreed i'm not a slut. bitch please.

i feel bad for you, truly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19314189)

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?forum_id=2&thread_id=1798008&PHPSESSID=263f4fdca76da34308bc5e0655585728

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307119)

Are we enemy?

Reply once, don't spam the fucking thread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307451)

One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up.

As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.

He came closer still and called out "Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?"

The young man paused, looked up, and replied "Throwing starfish into the ocean."

"I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" asked the somewhat startled wise man.

To this, the young man replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die."

Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, "But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!"

At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, "It made a difference for that one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307731)

have it on my wall, next to window. to keep me from leaping out it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307758)

They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods when his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band, he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Then, unexpectedly, a sinister thought entered his mind. Why should the other man alone experience all the pleasures of seeing everything while he himself never got to see anything?

It didn't seem fair.

At first thought the man felt ashamed. But as the days passed and he missed seeing more sights, his envy eroded into resentment and soon turned him sour. He began to brood and he found himself unable to sleep. He should be by that window--that thought, and only that thought, now controlled his life.

Late one night as he lay staring at the ceiling, the man by the window began to cough.

He was choking on the fluid in his lungs. The other man watched in the dimly lit room as the struggling man by the window groped for the button to call for help. Listening from across the room he never moved, never pushed his own button which would have brought the nurse running in.

In less than five minutes, the coughing and choking stopped, and along with that, the sound of breathing. Now there was only silence--deathly silence.

The following morning the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths.

When she found the lifeless body of the man by the window, she was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take it away. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window.

The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it all himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said, Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19307761)

Yes, you have an incredibly difficult student population. And, yes, you have daily non-teaching-related struggles that are incredibly stressful, etc. etc. But you should know that at core you're a really crappy teacher. If you were a really crappy teacher at some suburban school, it wouldn't really matter, because your students wouldn't be fucked from birth and there'd probably be other good teachers to pick up the slack. But the kids you're teaching can't deal with a crappy teacher like you. You're actively hurting their education. Not that most of them would have much of a chance anyway, but you're sure not helping.

You're not throwing any starfish back into the sea. You're walking down the beach, shaking your head at the number of fucked-up starfish lying around, half-heartedly kicking sand at some of them, collecting a small paycheck for doing so, and going home feeling exhausted and trying to tell yourself you did good, when you know that you didn't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19308062)

Sure, there'd be different problems at a prep school. At a good school, you have helicopter parents, who are a pain. Middle school is a difficult age regardless of whre you are.

We all need work, I'm not perfect. Still, kind of hard to pick something to teach while kids are assaulting each other, the well-behaved students have a 3rd grade reading level and half the class can't speak English.

Btw, IRL, that's because most classes in urban public schools are basically what Special Ed classes were 10 years ago with twice as many students.

Additionally, I can only teach within a standards framework. I can't teach something wildly creative or interesting every day because I can't cover enough standards on the exam. Kids who fail the exam get left back. A huge portion of the exam is writing. I rarely teach literature.

I use powerpoint, blogs, write my own worksheets, PowerPoint and use other technology in the room, have used outside books, books in foreign languages and comics and graphic novels for low literacy readers. I paid out of pocket for many of the books and graphic novels because the school won't disburse funds for many of them.

But yeah, if you want to keep living in your fantasy world, I'm just fucking lazy. Blame the teachers, not the deficient family structure and entitlement culture at the root of all of this. Blame the teachers, not the fact I can't discipline children in any meaningful way. Blame the teachers, not the deficient and out-of-touch curriculum and the educrats who enforce it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1800146&forum_id=2#19308073)