You can’t please everyone.
And even though your students love you and most people in your life think you’re pretty awesome and slightly adorable there will always, inevitably, be some haters out there who refuse to succumb to your charms…. Specifically, the elderly parents of a student you have a very amicable relationship with who come in and interrogate you on your age and in less than these words ask you what you could possibly know about the world and patronise the living essence out of you until your confidence has been completely undermined, you are sure your face is red and they have made it clear they think you’re too young and naïve to be able to teach a dog to bark let alone a student to read. You try your darndest to stick up for yourself even though you know you’re supposed to be discussing the child’s abilties, not your own, and the scoff building inside your jugular almost gets the better of you when they berate you for incorporating computer work into your class when you should be teaching Grammar, because:
“No one ever got anywhere with computers, you need to teach the kids to think for themselves”.
Yes, sir. No one EVER got anywhere with computers.
Really, I just can't think of one single person who got ANYWHERE with computers...
Yep, you can't please everyone.....
Cori (can I call you that?), you write beautifully, so of course you can teach a dog to bark. LIKE DUH! lol.
Tell those parents to focus more on their unhappiness and get them sticks out of their arses eh? :)
People sure do love to hate on things/people they don't understand.
Besides, don't they know Computers will be our overlords in a few short decades? I bet they'll be rounded up first, the haters.
Annah Annah Annah: Course you can and thank-you for the compliment, just makes me feel all warm inside! I wish I could say that, although I think they'd petition to burn me a the stake...
Margaret- Yep, they sure do. When that happens, I will be there, laughing, in all my glory and ICT knowledge...
Did you show the old man how to download porn on his own computer?
He might have changed his tune then.
That's what brought me around to the internet anyway.
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Emerson: I obviously considered it but I was too busy being sprayed with abuse to get a word in you know?