{"id":9839,"date":"2009-04-19T08:20:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9839"},"modified":"2009-04-19T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T14:01:02","slug":"yeah-so-teach-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9839","title":{"rendered":"Yeah? So teach already."},"content":{"rendered":"

In this morning’s Washington Post is an opinion piece by Ting-Yi Oei, the assistant principal of “Freedom School” in Loudon County, Virginia entitled My Students. My Cellphone. My Ordeal.<\/a> about his “ordeal” of being busted for child pornography.<\/p>\n

A summary of his story goes like this; He decided to investigate the “sexting” phenomenon in his school, found a student with a picture on his phone, had the student forward the picture to the assistant principal’s phone. A few days later, the student was suspended for an unrelated offense, the student told his parents about the picture, the assistant principal was arrested and later cleared of charges for having child pornography on his phone. <\/p>\n

The lesson the assistant principal would like us to take away from his story; teachers have a hard job and they get punished for things they didn’t do – and, oh, Fox News is evil.<\/p>\n

The lesson I’d like teachers to take away from the story; Stop being social engineers and teach. If the assistant principal had just handed the student and his phone over to the police (who I’ve heard are very good at conducting criminal investigations) instead of trying to act like Columbo, he’d still be ensconced in his plush office wondering what the lunchroom is serving today and planning his paid three month vacation this summer.<\/p>\n

Our children are idiots and it’s because teachers have it in their pointy heads that somehow it’s not their fault. In fact it’s everyone’s fault EXCEPT teachers. But teachers and schools are more worried about social fads and creating a “conducive environment for social interaction” instead of teaching skills students need to be productive members of the community.<\/p>\n

Teachers aren’t the police, they aren’t social workers, they aren’t substitute parents – they’re teachers, so they should try their hand at teaching and leave the rest of their imagined job descriptors to the experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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