Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The Future of America Lies with America's Emotionally Disturbed Children
As if I didn't already know that America's children are "needy", I had to go and agree to administer a TAKS test to a group of nine emotionally challenged kids today. (These are not the mentally disadvantaged kids, mind you, there is a large difference!) These kids are the ones whose only real challenge in life is the fact that no one has disciplined them, given them proper medication for whatever emotional disturbance has possessed them, or given them enough attention, thereby forcing these poor kids to find attention in other ways. What they really need is a nice paddle applied to the anterior region. Better yet, let me do it to the parents. They are the ones who need the discipline the most. You may call me overly critical, but I've seen too many kids messed up by their homelives, and in the end, we, as teachers, get blamed for society's "problem children" because we were bad babysitters. That hurts, but what is worse than that is that we only have them 7 hours a day. What are the parents doing with them in the other 17? Nothing. That's the problem. Nothing.
