Monday, 7 October 2024
The one where April is naughty and bad because she points out a physical defect in an adult.
Synopsis: We find ourselves watching April not having the least bloody clue what she's doing to irritate an Elly clone named Vi. Mirth ensues.
Summary: We know little of why this woman is inserted in the classroom setting. All we get to see is a pre- ( Read more... )
Of course, April is not the first Patterson to confuse how normal people react to her bullshit with persecution. Let's remind ourselves of how being treated like he's the boring ordinary person he is:
makes Mike see the woman who sees him as a disruptive annoyance who doesn't feel like applying himself as an antilife abomination who hates him for no reason:
when it's obvious that she has a damn good reason:
Said reason is teaching him how normal people who aren't being ineptly raised by a numbskull who thinks that contact with children is a humiliating thing meant to reduce her to a babbling simpleton with no identity, hopes or purpose behave.
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1. A child would say "nose," not "nose hair."
2. Detention is generally not served on the day of the offense so that the parents can be notified and the offense can be explained thoroughly and arrangements for late pickup- or explanation of lateness- can be made. Lynn seems to think that elementary school has loco parentis laws.
3. Teachers don't say things like "your child has a lot of potential" anymore, because most parents (maybe not the Pattersons) recognize that phrase as brown-nosing nonsense. There's no reason to believe that a kid goofing off in class has "potential" to be anything but an adult lacking in education. And taken at face value, the message is vile nonsense that no teacher should EVER send- "I don't mind goof-offs when I know they are idiots going nowhere anyway, but your kid could actually achieve something so this is important to fix."
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1) Nobody sane can be triggered by the word nose.
2) Lynn spent twenty five years in a fantasy capsule. She doesn't know this.
3) Hardacre is mouthing what Lynn wanted teachers to say about her. She doesn't give a damn about genuinely struggling students, she just wants a free pass to do an impersonation of an in-growing hair.
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I'm proud to say that I've never used the phrase "your child has potential" when discussing a kid whose main attribute is that he misbehaves. Nor do I ever suggest that he "needs to be challenged more" or is "bored because he's so far ahead of the rest of the class" or any of that other crap I'm sure Lynn wanted to be fed and which the Pattersons are basically being fed here- "I don't care about the other kids in the class, but your special snowflake has Hidden BrillianceTM that is just dying to reveal itself if I could just find the right environment for it to flourishTM I have more let me check my collection of Miracle Teachers Movie Scripts....."
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I'm sure that in real life, Mr and Mrs Ridgway were told Lindy was a nightmare to teach because she sulked and pitched fits when she was told what she got wrong and only wanted to do things that interested her.
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Like all of her characters, I'm sure that if she ever went to a Parent-Teacher Conference she insisted on being shoveled BS about how awesome her kids were and her attitude toward teachers was formed by those who refused to indulge her. Mrs. Hardacre IS Mrs. Hardacre because she is blind to Michael's genius, not because she's reacting to a brat. After all, Michael comes from a Good Family and is a Budding Genius.
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Lynn cannot admit to being very lucky that people took pity on her or needed a diversity hire. That way lies admitting that she'd be a frustrated mess who blames other people for her lack of real talent, brains or stamina.
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One of the truly horrifying trends here in the States is "Un-Schooling," where the least-educated people imaginable decide to "save" their kids from "State-Sponsored Indoctrination" and keep them at home and "teach" them "at their own pace." The stuff they say they do for instruction is taking them to the store and looking at fruits and vegetables, going on nature walks, and doing other things that parents generally do IN ADDITION TO standardized education. I feel terribly for the children of these slack-jawed, self-important, self-destructive morons.
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I have seen some truly horrifying videos exposing "unschooling" practices.
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me too, and I have yet to see any "un-schooled" kids who are being "un-schooled" by anything except barely-high-school-graduate Bible Thumping Young Earthers.
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It's the scholastic equivalent of those stupid people who think you can pray away a disease.
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The "Bless your heart" people who will probably return a certain felon to the White House next month.
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The worst people!
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Yup. With a huge swathe of anti-intellectualism.
Two of the videos I've watched reacted to an unschooling mom bragging about her six-year-old having copied out some words into his notebook, like one word per page. And each YouTuber reacting to the clip was like, "Nope, sorry, your six-year-old is way behind where a six-year-old should be." Like independently writing sentences; not merely copying out random words.
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I think I saw that one. "Egg." "Dog." "Cat." Wow, so impressive- if the kid is 2, not 6.
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