A message from your kids' teachers

[paramedicmike]

I laughed. And laughed again. I'm not really a Jimmy Kimmel fan but every once in a while he has something funny.

[Cookie]

ROTFL very funny

[DFIB]

Fuuunnnny! Except kids aren't stupid, just poorly mentored. Well most kids aren't.

[Richard B the EMT]

Lady J is a teacher. Gotta show her this, because, even if it is a parody of real commercials, it speaks TRUTH!

[Kiwiology]

funny as shit

[Arctickat]

Shit is funny? I guess you have to be a Kiwi to appreciate it.

[emtdennis]

Can you display the actual "message from your kids teachers"?

[Bieber]

That's awesome... and probably almost a hundred percent true.

[Richard B the EMT]

That's awesome... and probably almost a hundred percent true.

Almost? As son of a teacher (Momma B, NYC Department of Education), brother (sister retired NYC DoE, brother a History Professor at University of North Dakota), grandmother (Assistant Principal NYC Board of Education), and boyfriend of another teacher (Lady J), figure it to be 99.99999 per cent the case.

[DwayneEMTP]

Yeah, I hate to take this thread in a more serious direction, but I get really tired of crying for teachers.

As one that's gone through the public school system, and now been involved with it on an almost daily basis for much of Dylan's 15 years, I'm really, really comfortable saying that it's way past time the image of the selfless school teacher goes away just as should the image of the heroic fireman.

I remember maybe three teachers from my 12+ years of schooling. 5 or 6 if you include college. Amazing, life changing individuals. My life is certainly better, and kinder, and more open minded because I was blessed with their care. But how many hundreds of teachers was I exposed to during my education? And I remember three? C'mon...that's not an awesome friggin' average.

It's fun, and we all feel like better people for jumping on the 'teachers as saints' bandwagon, but it doesn't solve the very real issues plaguing our public (and possibly private, though I have no way to know) school systems today.

Kids are still failing at alarming rates, those that pass are being found to be scarily undereducated, the system is broken in almost every case. And that's only when considering normally developing kids. Add in the special needs kids that are not only not educated, but abused and killed 'while at school!' and it paints a much bleaker picture.

And does anyone find it ironic that teachers enjoy a paradoy of "The parents just want to make excuses and have someone else solve their problems!"? Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black?

Ok, as you were...

Dwayne