Tuesday, 8 October 2024
The one where April has no idea that it just gets harder and harder....and then, sweet, sweet Death!
Synopsis: Since April has lived a life without actual structure, she's oppressed by the workload she has in kindergarten.
Summary: She'll get no help at home because her mother fears that interacting with children will turn her into one.
Also, the lack of real structure at home leaves the kids in the lurch when they are in class.
as the teachers of the world make the mistake of assuming that John and Elly mean by being supportive means what they think it does. It's why Phil didn't know why Mike wanted to blow off the trumpet lessons Elly turned into a humiliating punishment. The end result is that the children think that their parents are being dishonest instead of being ignorant:
while teachers who spot obvious problems in the hope that they'll be addressed are seen as hating them:
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There is so much here, I'll probably end up posting several times....
1. When Liz misspells words "clearly" written on the board and doesn't follow along in the book, the teacher (and Elly) default to "you aren't paying attention" without asking for any input from the student. This is the kind of thing that would get an actual teacher reprimanded. Has Liz been asked if there's a problem with her vision? Has her seat been moved? Has testing been recommended? No? Then everyone is failing here- except the person being blamed.
2. When you use your fingers to help add, you are using your brain, you stupid numbty. And by stupid numbty I mean Lynn, not this teacher.
3. Let's not let Liz play in any more reindeer games either as we shame her in front of the entire class. Another reprimand. Another instance in which we see a teacher who needs to be gently guided into another profession. One that does not involve children.
4. I'm going to start telling my students that their "work needs improvement" without giving them any actual constructive guidance. That will be a lot easier for me. Then I'll throw in some advice about putting in more effort I got out of a Horatio Alger Jr. novel.
5. I bet none of that mountain of clothing that makes it look like Elly is doing laundry for the entire neighborhood needs to be ironed at all.
6. John and Elly take their "you should just know how to do this because I do" philosophy to the point of expecting their kids to understand arithmetic intuitively. At least they didn't home-school. Why is it so impossible for Elly to just tell Michael "I don't remember the formula involved for figuring that out, let's look at the explanation in the math book and see if we can learn it together?" Oh never mind, I know the answer to that one....there's ironing to do.
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( I am a bit concerned about a kid Michael's age being perplexed at the question "what percentage is 10 out of 10?" Then I remember that the author needed to come up with a "tough" math question SHE knew the answer to, and figure this was the best she could do. It's still pretty cringey though, and suggests that Michael has a REAL comprehension issue that requires professional testing.)
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Lynn doesn't think things through when she does things like this. It's one thing to have him come up with a disturbing visual image of half of a person and have that be the reason fractions confuse him. It's another thing entirely to suggest that he is neurodivergent.
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1) No one wants to be the idiot who didn't ask 'Can this person actually see clearly?'......which is why everyone is the idiot who didn't ask if Liz could see the material. It's easier to point fingers and castigate than to fix a problem.
2) Lynn was yelled at by incompetents so Liz has to be too.
3) Blais was fine with theoretical children but the real ones give her the jibblies.
4) Constructive guidance means not brainlessly following a lesson plan like this clown does. It's why they eventually promote her to administration so she can turn air conditioning up to 'meat locker' to shame girls adapting to a heat warning:
5) Of course it doesn't. It seems to me that Elly was only half-way paying attention to what Marian did when she was doing housework and this is the result: her not understanding that not everything needs to be ironed.
6) Also, she doesn't want to emotionally identify with a child whom she's decided is an enemy because he 'argues'. Argue, of course, meaning seeing the world through his own eyes instead of through hers.
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I've never owned an iron. What needs to be ironed? Permanent Press is a thing. Elly is the wife of a rich dentist and she's buying clothes than need to be ironed? That's just being stupid for the sake of being stupid.
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Her mother ironed. Her mother asks her why she herself irons when she can afford clothes that don't need ironing. Her mother 'wants' to call her a lazy failure she's ashamed of. That's why Elly irons: to impress someone who doesn't understand why she makes life hard on herself.
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Old bat teacher probably wishes she could get away with making those girls cover up completely like those Muslim women.
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the reason kids shouldn't chew on their pencils is because they can get poisoned from the paint, any teacher should know this!
Elly is dumb enough to think homework is fun.
I'm willing to bet Elly doesn't know Miss Wellsley from Adam's asshole and is just automatically taking sides against Liz.
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