Sometimes, that's a very, very frightening prospect. Here are some examples from my lovelies that lead me to believe our future to be a very dark, dim place.
After drawing a picture of Elder William Hitch, the Mormon missionary depicted in Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, a child captioned his/her drawing with "Jion me." Jion me in Zion, perhaps?
Another lovely, when responding to a quiz about what happened in the reading of the aforementioned book, wrote, "I the book Around the World in 80 Days..." Um.... do you mean In the book, perhaps?
One of them, in the hallway between classes, asks another, in all seriousness, "Hey! What color is the White House?" Well, dear, I'm going to go out on a limb on this one....
A few weeks ago, one of them raised his/her hand in history and asked the history, again in all seriousness, "[Insert teacher's name here], what's your job?" Ack! Really?
I frequently have students raising their hands to tell me they don't have a pen/pencil/piece of paper/book for class. First of all, why, in the name of all that is holy, do you show up to a class without those things? We're in 7th, 8th, and 9th grades now; we should get this part of school at this point. Secondly, the first three items can be obtained from a willing neighbor without me having to intervene. Really, guys?
Now, they do have intelligent moments, and some of them have these moments quite frequently. However, and I am being serious here, intelligent moments aren't the ones you tell at parties when people ask you to tell them about your job as a teacher. Why? They're not funny. Ah, the YouTube generation. Whatever shall become of you?
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