I've been substitute teaching for the last month or so in the local school district down here. I have to say that the kids are awful. Seriously. They do not have any respect. Not for me, not for them, not for their classroom. I wondered for so long why I couldn't get a job down here when I felt like I should move. Now I know. I would have hated it. I would have spent way too much time stressing over how to deal with the students, I would never have been able to find time for my homework and I would not be sleeping because I would be trying to get too many things done.
I had a couple of girls just about get in a fight today. In eighth grade. They just don't care that I'm there. Almost no one did the work. And I always feel bad for the kids who are trying because no one respects them. They probably don't get much attention because the teachers are so busy with the bad kids. My voice is worn out by the end of every day. In the three/four weeks I've subbed, I've raised my voice more than in the entire year I subbed up in UT.
This world is going to fall apart. And its going to be because of apathy.
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I am just a mom out here in Vegas and let me tell you...I have chosen to home school and it isn't because of the school system so much, though they do have problems. It is because of the students and the disrespect they have for everyone and themselves. I am glad that I am not the only one who see's this!
That's too bad. I subbed 8th grade here in Missouri and had a wonderful time. The kids were all nice, and they all did their work. I'm sorry they're so awful there. It's nice to know the Utah kids were good too. Good thing you didn't get a job there.
It's completely true. Apathy will be our destroyer.
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