Posted on 06/13/2019 8:23:46 PM PDT by EdnaMode
What a brave girl to give such a highly inappropriate speech to the world that most needs to hear it!
Just another sign along the road we’re on. If you blink, you might miss it ... they go by so fast nowadays.
Thank you for your post. I was in the same position. However, I had teachers who would absolutely ruin a great weekend by expending their own time and energy dragging me off to Latin competitions and special examinations on Saturdays. My teachers were annoying, too, by expecting a great deal of my time and attention. I had no idea why I was the recipient of this unwelcome treatment which interfered with my social life. Kids....
In my early 20s I had my first bar back job in a large restaurant. I was responsible for cleaning and stocking the bar - cleaning or dusting the bottles of alcohol. Basically a busboy for the bar.
So many of the bottles contained brands of booze that I had never seen or heard of. So as I was cleaning the bottles I would also take the pourer off each bottle and smell the booze to see what it was like.
I did this with one particular bottle and immediately my legs started giving way and I thought I was going to vomit. Got lightheaded and had to sit down - I swear I thought I was going to start crying.
It was a bottle of Blackberry Brandy.
The stench of that woman came right back to me, I was right back in that classroom scared out of my mind. I never knew what is was she reeked of besides for cigarettes until that moment - it was Blackberry Brandy.
Welcome to life, kid.
You’re a damn fine writer.
Maybe she can say it was a joke. Like William Shatner’s “Get a life” comment at the Star Trek convention skit on SNL.
There are guidance counselors who write off students who are not supposed to succeed. I had one of those.
I’m supposed to be sorry I didn’t live down to his expectations.
Anyone interested in a college can check that college's website for scholarship requirements. Sometimes the colleges themselves even chase after high-scoring students and offer them scholarships. As a parent, I called college admissions departments and talked directly with them about scholarships. And anyone can research other scholarships online.
That's why I don't understand the student's complaint.
The high school should be responsible for sending the correct documentation to colleges, for example. But this student is complaining that her counselor told her about scholarships the day before the deadline(s) and she "almost" missed them.
Public school students have classes scheduled for them, teachers to teach them, computer labs provided to them, and on and on, all paid mostly by other people. They don't research scholarships for themselves, either?
Jeez, sounds like that teacher did one hell of a number on you. Sorry to read about that.
A long, LONG time ago the valedictorian of my HS class did something similar - blasting the school for not preparing us for college. Never any consequences that I knew of.....but back then everyone didn’t carry cameras in their pockets and post their crap on the walls of the world-wide bathroom.
Teenagers will always cheer idiots who stand up to authority no matter if they are in the right or not.
I remember reading a quote by Fran Leibowitz that sums my attitude towards guidance counselors,
“Try to derive some comfort from the knowledge that if your guidance counselor was working up to his potential, he wouldn’t still be in high school.”
So underestimating potential is sort of a given for many of them.
This was entirely inappropriate and should not be cheered. Furthermore, it’s a huge assumption to accept her point of view as representing reality. Sometimes the problem is the teacher or the counselor. Sometimes it’s the spoiled teenager and her foolish parents.
“To those criticizing this girl, go straight to hell, “
You, first.
You applauding whining, spoiled brats makes you part of the problem.
I see.
So according to you, lazy teachers union types don’t have to do their jobs and when some kid complains, it’s the kid’s fault.
I’m beginning to see why the Socialists are taking over, but using your logic complaining about it indicates that I have a gross sense of entitlement.
The kid should have had a schedule and a task list to manage the project of getting into college with a scholarship. There’s absolutely no excuse for “getting surprised” at the end that somebody else didn’t do his or her job. That is up to the student and her parents.
Complaining about her failure (as much as the school’s failure) is just pitiful, especially at the commencement time. She’s a low class entitled brat.
So it’s not the job of the school guidance counselor to inform the students who expressed interest in college of possible scholarships?
Then what exactly does the school guidance counselor do? How many figures is she getting paid a year for the nothing she does?
This is California - how much taxpayer money gets dumped into the black hole they call a school system every year?
And you have no sympathy for the student?
You should go join the Bernie for President campaign. He hates the little people too.
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