That_One_Guy Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Most teachers are boring as old people fucking. Like how? How have you lived over 30 years boring as shit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I’ve lived 30 years and I’m boring as shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That_One_Guy Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 11 minutes ago, Poof said: I’ve lived 30 years and I’m boring as shit Dude no the fuck you aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mix Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Well, it goes like this. Everyone starts out with hopes and dreams that they wish to fulfill. Unfortunately the universe don't play that. You see everything that can happen, happens. It has to end well and it has to end badly. It has to end every way it can. So the you in your respective universe may not be the one that makes it. In fact it's more than likely that you don't, but like the automaton that you are you move on with life, pointless as it is. You get a soul sucking, empty, background character position like high school teacher. There you get to watch the chosen ones live out their young hopeful lives as you slowly wither away, the light long gone from your eyes. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sieg67 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Maybe dealing with students took all the joy out of their life. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnmjy Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I dunno, I think most teachers are all right. But I guess I'm a boring person myself, so . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouvre Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 For public high school: standardization For most colleges: student evals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedemptionZeni Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 It's mostly because they speak in a grandiloquent, philosophical, academic voice in order to get students to think in abstract ways. They can talk like "normal people", but they feel they'd be doing a disservice to students if they imparted lessons in didacticism to them in much simpler terms. I still don't know whether it's an effective method and really achieves its purpose of getting a select few students to break through and come up with novel approaches to things that have been known and taught for centuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsar4 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Think about it. Imagine you're a 5th grade English teacher, just starting out. Maybe you have the class read "Romeo & Juliet" (Board approved) your first year. The questions from the class are brand new & fresh to you. Year 2, the questions are pretty similar to the first year. Year 3, you try to change things up, the Board shoots down switching to "Catcher In The Rye" (themes are too adult for such young, impressionable minds), but "The Grapes of Wrath" is approved. New questions from the class, new ideas, things are fresh again. Repeat this a few years - questions become old hat. Always arguing with the Board about what is "appropriate" for 5th graders. Maybe you've even gotten complaints from parents about the curriculum (too hard for my kid, too "racy" for my kid, etc.). You're missing something, but you can't put your finger on it. What seemed like a profession where you could make a difference seems dull and repetitive. Did you have a favorite teacher in grade school? Did you ever contact them later in life to let them know they mattered? People in the "trades" can point to a finished product and say, "I did that!". A teacher rarely gets to see the outcome of their work unless one of their students gets in the news (which can be good or bad). My Grandfather started teaching in a 1 room schoolhouse (rural Illinois) in the 1920s and retired from teaching science at private school in Chicago in the 1970s. In retirement, he volunteer taught at a school for developmentally challenged kids. Even after his passing, he received letters and visits from his students, thanking him for his work. I think that, in part, was what kept him going into his 90s, knowing that he had made a difference. Not every teacher gets that kind of welcome feedback. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNN Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 On 1/30/2021 at 7:30 PM, That_One_Guy said: Most teachers are boring as old people fucking. Like how? How have you lived over 30 years boring as shit? nothing new under the sun. people will live the way they want to live with what they have. or they wont, it's their choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That_One_Guy Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 On 1/31/2021 at 12:24 PM, tsar4 said: Think about it. Imagine you're a 5th grade English teacher, just starting out. Maybe you have the class read "Romeo & Juliet" (Board approved) your first year. The questions from the class are brand new & fresh to you. Year 2, the questions are pretty similar to the first year. Year 3, you try to change things up, the Board shoots down switching to "Catcher In The Rye" (themes are too adult for such young, impressionable minds), but "The Grapes of Wrath" is approved. New questions from the class, new ideas, things are fresh again. Repeat this a few years - questions become old hat. Always arguing with the Board about what is "appropriate" for 5th graders. Maybe you've even gotten complaints from parents about the curriculum (too hard for my kid, too "racy" for my kid, etc.). You're missing something, but you can't put your finger on it. What seemed like a profession where you could make a difference seems dull and repetitive. Did you have a favorite teacher in grade school? Did you ever contact them later in life to let them know they mattered? People in the "trades" can point to a finished product and say, "I did that!". A teacher rarely gets to see the outcome of their work unless one of their students gets in the news (which can be good or bad). My Grandfather started teaching in a 1 room schoolhouse (rural Illinois) in the 1920s and retired from teaching science at private school in Chicago in the 1970s. In retirement, he volunteer taught at a school for developmentally challenged kids. Even after his passing, he received letters and visits from his students, thanking him for his work. I think that, in part, was what kept him going into his 90s, knowing that he had made a difference. Not every teacher gets that kind of welcome feedback. Wow man I want to thank you for this response. I felt it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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