Hey Kids, If You Don't Want Your Teachers Calling You Lazy Whiners...
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
August 24, 2011 12:34pm CST
Then don't be lazy whiners!
I think all the whining is the first clue that the kids and their parents are whiners!!
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8 responses
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
24 Aug 11
When I was in school teachers didn't mind telling a child to their faces that they were whiners. If a kid whined about homework, a teacher would say, "Sop whining and do your homework." There's nothing wrong with talking straight to your students to help them become better people.
That said, this woman is a moron. She put this all on a public blog. I remember when this all came out nearly a year ago. Once you publicly insult your students and b!tch about your job, you're likely to be fired. It happens in every industry and teachers are no exception.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
24 Aug 11
Yup, I agree that she should have said it to their faces, and told their parents, not lazily whined about it on her blog. :~D
@natnickeep (2336)
• United States
24 Aug 11
I agree students do get most of their whinny traits from parents. And the laziness we have created. Making things to easy for people in general. The cost of convenience isn't only coming out of our pockets. It's rubbing off on our kids. Making them think life shouldn't be difficult at all. So when it is they don't know how to handle it.
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@Adoniah (7512)
• United States
24 Aug 11
Praising a child's 'good behavior' has its merits...It cuts down on serial killers. But praising a kid for every damn thing it does is disgusting. It just turns them into ego~maniacs and worthless human beings. The world all ready has it quota of those.
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
25 Aug 11
There's something very fundamental about competition. The idea behind the whole whiny movement is that there should never be a loser. It's a hurtful label.
Well, I'll tell ya one thing - it's an even more hurtful position!
While we're working incredibly hard to shield people from feeling like losers, we're doing absolutely nothing to stop them from becoming losers.
It's that our newfangled "tolerance" kick makes it somehow okay to be a loser. And if it's accepted to be less than your best self and to always be told that you're a great, shining example of humanity's brightest regardless of what you do, that's obviously going to create a "so what?" attitude amongst many people.
We can all see it! It's not like we're breaking things wide open here on myLot. 
But some people are honestly incapable of viewing life as something you have to try to live. Those damned "thinkers" who have been thinking for thousands of years while the doers--the people who lost and tried harder--actually built the world we live in today.
Praise the children for the good. Call them out for the bad. Stop placating failure. It seems simple enough.
But some people are honestly incapable of viewing life as something you have to try to live. Those damned "thinkers" who have been thinking for thousands of years while the doers--the people who lost and tried harder--actually built the world we live in today.
Praise the children for the good. Call them out for the bad. Stop placating failure. It seems simple enough.
for you matersfish!
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
24 Aug 11
Like I said in another discussion today, we need to refocus here in the USA or we'll never recover, no matter who we elect.
@RebeccaScarlett (2532)
• Canada
25 Aug 11
She shouldn't have posted it on a blog...that was her mistake.
When the teenagers I teach are being lazy, I tell them not to be lazy, because lazy kids don't pass (as an instructor who trains lifeguard candidates, that's actually true. If they're lazy and don't learn how to perform rescues and first aid to the point where I'm confident in their abilities, they fail!)
I also point out that if they were that lazy during a real rescue, someone might die.
If I were a schoolteacher, I'm sure I'd have to phrase it to be specific to what we were learning (if you're lazy and don't learn how to handle numbers, you might end up broke and starving when you can't handle your own finances, etc) but I would still call them out on the lazy whining! Hell, I call out 3 year olds on whining when I teach them swimming lessons. I tell them "I don't speak Whine" so if they want me to understand them, they need to speak proper English! And you know what? Children that I overhear whining to their parents in the lobby, or who whine when they have other swimming instructors, don't whine in my class! I wonder why? 
@BalthasarTheRat (656)
• United States
26 Aug 11
Quit making sense! I cannot respond appropriately when you are spouting truisms. The biggest problem with whiners are that they are whiney.
Man we live in a lazy, irresponsible society. Nobody taking responsibility, fearing accountability, what the heck?
I guess I did have something to say. Rock On!
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
24 Aug 11
I heard about this awhile back and wished there were more teachers like that. My own children would never have amounted to anything if they'd been constantly praised and had their shortcomings ignored. Criticism inspires normal humans to reach higher, try to be better and to come out on top. Without it, kids will never reach their potential. And yes, a little name-calling can be an asset, too, as long as it's not constant and malicious!
I'm reading "Our Culture, What's Left of It" by Theodore Dalrymple. He mentions such things in a few of his chapters. Mark Steyn in "After America" also touches on the subject. I'm reading them both at the same time, they're both really good.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
24 Aug 11
The complete and utter destruction of our culture could not be accomplished if we allowed our students to be competitive. We must make them all into whinners not winners so that American greatness can be obliterated from the face of the earth.
It's been heading this way for the last 40-50 years Ted, what is so surprising about this?
I have a grandson who is a sophmore in High School and he doesn't understand our form of government well enough to know why his grandmother is so upset over what Obama is doing despite a Constitution that says he cannot do what he is doing.
His father was homeschooled and guess what, he DOES understand. Education in the USA has failed to produce what made the USA great in previous generations. Teachers go to college and learn how to turn our children into good little world citizens with socialist tendencies.
Sorry for the sarcasm. I feel very strongly that American schools need to be forcefully taken back from the Federal Government and put back into the hands of the comunities where control belongs.
