'You Are All Just Stupid Kids' - teacher said to 4-5yr olds

[BrutusMaximus]

Kids are stupid by nature. The teacher wasnt lying, she wasnt saying anything wrong. This country is full of whining sissies because "it's not right to see people differently, the ones who are, should be lied to and put on a pedestal"........is that any more right than this? :p

 

[cincibuck]

Kids are stupid by nature.

Am I missing the sarcasm font here? I hope so.

Spend a day in an average first grade... not Upper Arlington... not around Mohawk, but some where in between. You'll be amazed by what you see. Given their lack of life experience you will find that kids are amazingly bright, creative learning machines. Their minds are facile and they are very eager to learn and be successful. They love to sing, draw, run, play, solve problems and puzzels, listen and react to literature and comment on the world around them.

If you're not careful as a teacher/parent you can beat all of that joy of learning out of them by 4th grade.

 

[iambrutus]

Am I missing the sarcasm font here? I hope so.

Spend a day in an average first grade... not Upper Arlington... not around Mohawk, but some where in between. You'll be amazed by what you see. Given their lack of life experience you will find that kids are amazingly bright, creative learning machines. Their minds are facile and they are very eager to learn and be successful. They love to sing, draw, run, play, solve problems and puzzels, listen and react to literature and comment on the world around them.

If you're not careful as a teacher/parent you can beat all of that joy of learning out of them by 4th grade.

 

[Apache]

Stupid is as stupid does!

parents put a digital audio recorder in their daughters' book bag and recorded the teacher....

Breitbart.tv ? ?You Are All Just Stupid Kids?: Mother Bugs Child?s Backpack to Spy on Teacher

Now, who is the more stupid person here?
Could it be the adult?

 

[kippy1040]

It has to be a very tough career to be a teacher in our society today. Instead of teaching children, teachers today end up being the roll
of parents in the classroom. God only knows where young people at
the age of 5 and 6 learn there vocabulary from and even at that age,
toddlers can be mean. They don't mean to be that way. It has to
begin with parents. What ever happened to the plan of "Parents - Teachers
Conferences? What is our world coming to.

 

[Brewtus]

Am I missing the sarcasm font here? I hope so.

Spend a day in an average first grade... not Upper Arlington... not around Mohawk, but some where in between. You'll be amazed by what you see. Given their lack of life experience you will find that kids are amazingly bright, creative learning machines. Their minds are facile and they are very eager to learn and be successful. They love to sing, draw, run, play, solve problems and puzzels, listen and react to literature and comment on the world around them.

If you're not careful as a teacher/parent you can beat all of that joy of learning out of them by 4th grade.

Monkeys do most of that shit too, so what's the big deal?

But seriously, the reaction to this is just another example of the pussification of America. Kids need to grow a pair and understand that in adulthood other people are going to say nasty shit to you and that not everyone gets a medal no matter how they finish. I'm sick of kids coming out of college who need to be coddled to all the time and given positive feedback for every little thing they do. It's a cruel world out there with someone always looking to stab you in the back, and the sooner they realize that the better.

 

[cincibuck]

Monkeys do most of that shit too, so what's the big deal?

"But seriously, the reaction to this is just another example of the pussification of America. Kids need to grow a pair and understand that in adulthood other people are going to say nasty shit to you and that not everyone gets a medal no matter how they finish. I'm sick of kids coming out of college who need to be coddled to all the time and given positive feedback for every little thing they do. It's a cruel world out there with someone always looking to stab you in the back, and the sooner they realize that the better." Tony Soprano, I Never Got No Love in School, Random Big House, Newark, NJ, 2007

There, fixed it for you.

 

[Oneshot]

My senior year in HS our Physics teacher went off on us one day, told us we were the worst class he'd ever had and we would all flunk out of college after wasting our parents' money.

We laughed like hell about it afterwards (held it in during the rant) and he was right about a few of us, actually...present company excluded, of course.

That's nothing - my senior year second semester, we're pretty much mentally checked out of school.

We're in our advanced Econ class, and we're just goofing off, cuz hell, we're out of there in two months.

One day the teacher (young guy, maybe 35), just goes OFF on us:

"You guys are all assholes. Every one of you. You think you're hot shit? You guys are going to get RUN OVER in college. You guys are nothing. Fucking assholes. [goes on for a bit, and then this gem] ... and GO ahead and tell the GODDAMN principal that I yelled at you - I DONT GIVE A SHIT. You are worth NOTHING to me."

Don't know what happened to that guy, since we all graduated and never looked back.

Sometimes people are not cut out to be teachers, plain and simple.

 

[Steve19]

Brewtus, you make a point, but these are not college kids. They are little kids and the educational psychology literature is replete with studies that show this kind of treatment can really hurt kids, having permanent effects.

In the present case, I am not overly confident that the parents didn't play a role and that this kid is not a holy terror. Still, the wise parent or teacher focuses on correcting the behavior, not tearing down a kid's self-image.

I think Mili had it about right. Take her through a disciplinary procedure, put her on notice of being fired if she does it again and move on. A week off without pay sounds about right.

In the interest of transparency, I had my oldest daughter treated like this once and beaten by a teacher for something she didn't do. I had a talk to her teacher the next morning. She listened. I talked. It was never repeated.