Sometimes working with teens is so disheartening.
- From what I observe, they care not a whit about an education or knowledge. They just want the grade. (Which forces me to grade almost everything. Many will only do their best if it is for a grade.)
- They rail against the adults over the littlest things...like the uniform policy, yet when given the opportunity to fight against something important, like poverty, they do nothing. (Each student at our school was recently asked to donate $5 so the SGA could buy items for a family in need at Christmas. Some students actually said "I'm not giving that. They can just go out and get a job.")
- They are mean to each other, then when you call them out on it...they are "just joking."
- They sit passively in a class and do little to actively engage themselves in the learning process and then accuse the teacher of "not teaching" the material if they do not do well. Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't learning a two way street?
- The parents aren't much better. To quote a parent from Open House: (speaking to me about her son) "You do your job I'll do mine." Does little Johnny have no responsibility for his own grade? (I dare not call it education.)
