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(93,000 posts)murielm99
(31,470 posts)planetc
(8,285 posts)underpants
(186,936 posts)twodogsbarking
(12,230 posts)for the next available agent of the FBI.
JohnnyRingo
(19,346 posts)Good way to start my day.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,618 posts)Thanks.
wils3038
(13 posts)Im a veteran public high school teacher (41 years) in a red state. People always ask me how children have changed. Recently I have never seen so much bad behavior - cheating, disrespect, fighting, etc. as we are dealing with today. Our school nurse told me that her cabinet used to be full of ADHD medicine, but now its full of depression and anxiety medicine. I honestly believe it is all about role models. For four years we had a greedy criminal as a president, who raped women, and bragged about it, who lied every day, who stole, cheated, and mocked the handicapped while discriminating against minority groups. The children I teach now were in elementary and junior high school at a very impressionable age when he was president, and I think its going to take a long time to recover.
kimbutgar
(23,416 posts)I am a substitute teacher and when I started kids were compliant and respectful.The pandemic changed them and the four years of having the orange menace as president was a terrible role model. I had a 10 year old tell me the F off the other day because I told him to do his work. His friends laughed and also started fooling around. It was a 3 day work assignment and I was physically and mentally drained. And I had a number of kids coming up to me to complain about what some other kid said to them etc. And the final straw was this girl who never gave me trouble handed me a note asking I not read it until Im home. In her note she said I was a terrible substitute and not harsh enough on the offending kids. I had called the school office several times for support. And many of the kids Ive known for years. But all it takes is 1 or 2 bad apples to throw off the classroom structure. In this class there were easily 5 boys who were out of control. I love teaching but it was impossible to teacher and then to get that note!!!! I was so depressed that night!
I am seriously thinking of quitting being a substitute teacher.
niyad
(120,327 posts)up). Didn't need breakfast anyway.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,822 posts)niyad
(120,327 posts)Wounded Bear
(60,742 posts)rurallib
(63,240 posts)(about the 4th one down)
Johnson looks like the twin of a certain historical figure minus the little mustache or at least he does to me