Lazy is not the politically correct term
Apparently lazy is a racial term. You should not tell young black people that they are lazy because it is a stigma attached to the black culture.
Yes, read that again. I was told this today by someone.
I am feeling a little annoyed as of late with the apathetic nature of not just the students but some of my colleagues. I have suddenly become the "bad guy" because I hold students accountable for being on time, being where they are supposed to be at the appropriate times, and not accepting excuses for not doing work. Where as some of my colleagues let their students do what they want and suddenly I hear, "Why can't you be more like Mr. So and So, he doesn't care if we come late."
It frustrates me becuse I hear these same colleagues telling our principal how they are on the ball and doing all these great things with the students. He is also at fault for not holding his teachers accountable. I had 10 students out of 18 in one of my classes fail to complete a homework assignment. 10 kids! At a boarding school! How can they not be doing their homework? Because so many of them are LAZY. I said it, and I will continue to tell the students they are being lazy if it fits the definition.
Lazy:
1. averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
2. causing idleness or indolence: a hot, lazy afternoon.
3. slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy stream.
There are a lot of students here who fit that bill. However I do not blame them, I blame those who teach them. When we show them laziness is OK, they act lazy. When we give in to their whining about making up a test 2 weeks after it is over, or not having their homework because it is in their locker, or being late because they had to get their textbook, we are telling them that this behavior is OK and that it will be accepted in the real world.
I don't know, maybe I am just frustrated at the moment. I have a million things going on here. I really bit off a large piece here this year and it is in the hectic time when things are really all converging at once. I need to get myself away from here and regroup. I think spending 24 hours a day on this campus is beginning to take its toll on me. I haven't even had the energy or drive to run in about a week and a half. It is just gone from me, not there. I bring my running stuff with me to the computer lab with the thought of running, but right around 9 30pm I lose the will and just want to go home and crash on my couch. I guess I am asking a lot of myself to work from 8am-9 30pm then go running after that until 10 45pm.
I need something positive to come my way, I feel like a damn proton with all this negativity coming at me.
Yes, read that again. I was told this today by someone.
I am feeling a little annoyed as of late with the apathetic nature of not just the students but some of my colleagues. I have suddenly become the "bad guy" because I hold students accountable for being on time, being where they are supposed to be at the appropriate times, and not accepting excuses for not doing work. Where as some of my colleagues let their students do what they want and suddenly I hear, "Why can't you be more like Mr. So and So, he doesn't care if we come late."
It frustrates me becuse I hear these same colleagues telling our principal how they are on the ball and doing all these great things with the students. He is also at fault for not holding his teachers accountable. I had 10 students out of 18 in one of my classes fail to complete a homework assignment. 10 kids! At a boarding school! How can they not be doing their homework? Because so many of them are LAZY. I said it, and I will continue to tell the students they are being lazy if it fits the definition.
Lazy:
1. averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
2. causing idleness or indolence: a hot, lazy afternoon.
3. slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy stream.
There are a lot of students here who fit that bill. However I do not blame them, I blame those who teach them. When we show them laziness is OK, they act lazy. When we give in to their whining about making up a test 2 weeks after it is over, or not having their homework because it is in their locker, or being late because they had to get their textbook, we are telling them that this behavior is OK and that it will be accepted in the real world.
I don't know, maybe I am just frustrated at the moment. I have a million things going on here. I really bit off a large piece here this year and it is in the hectic time when things are really all converging at once. I need to get myself away from here and regroup. I think spending 24 hours a day on this campus is beginning to take its toll on me. I haven't even had the energy or drive to run in about a week and a half. It is just gone from me, not there. I bring my running stuff with me to the computer lab with the thought of running, but right around 9 30pm I lose the will and just want to go home and crash on my couch. I guess I am asking a lot of myself to work from 8am-9 30pm then go running after that until 10 45pm.
I need something positive to come my way, I feel like a damn proton with all this negativity coming at me.