charwin95
Gold Member
14th Amendment is crap and new amendments needed to adjust it. You were an American before you were a teacher Sue. Trust me, I understand and what I said was “fuck those kids.” Got to turn that emotional switch off sometimes. Sad but true. Teachers are under no obligation to try to save the world.Sue, I love children of all races...but under these circumstances if we are to save our country we must harden our hearts. It’s like when you brought the puppy dog home when you were a kid and your mom said you couldn’t keep it. Sure you got tears in your eyes but you had to go outside and run the dog off your property and let it fend for itself. Natural selection I guess. Sue, unfortunately these kids are dangerous to our country.I'm not insensible to that. For one thing I know that these children's parents are not paying into the system. They are "freeloading" the education system and, typically, educating their children costs MORE than educating a legal citizen's child. so it's unfair, I get that.
I'm not saying these parents should NOT be deported. Don't get me wrong. I just feel badly for the children. Feeling badly won't change my mind about it being the right thing to do. It just doesn't deaden my compassion for the children. make sense?
I don't know if you misunderstand me or what. I'm not against ICE raiding this business, the parents being deported, or even the kids being deported--but I don't think they can be because I assume they're US citizens. I agree with everything you say. We have too many illegal immigrants here and more all the time.
What you said, however, is "F the kids". I can't say that because I assume you mean by that we shouldn't for them; too bad. Well, I do. It would be like if a father is sentenced to death. I might feel like he deserves the death penalty. I might stand by that penalty and condone it even. That does not stop me regretting that the father has to die, and especially, that his children have to lose their father.
IOW the head agrees but the heart still feels bad. I'm not going to turn the heart off. I should not. I would be a crap teacher if I did.
No, YOU had to turn off your emotional switch to do YOUR job. Do not conflate that with MY job. If I turn off my emotional switch I'm a crap teacher. Kindly do not presume to tell me what I need to do to do the job I've been doing (very well) for 25 years.
I agree with you, btw. In all the particulars. Now you're telling me I shouldn't feel compassion for the kids. WRONG.
My daughter leaves for college next weekend in pursuit of a music education degree. She wants to teach music also.
That said, you can still teach whatever you want. Is it that you don't want to be able to tell the kid that decides not to stand that he has the right to do so?
In my warehouse ( San Diego and Atlanta) I have lots of employees with college degrees. From BS of arts, theology, music, psychology, chef, video, history to fashion. These are the kids that can’t find a jobs from what they studied. They also have massive loans.
Making between $16+ to $18. Ages are between 24 to 34 yo. We love to have these people because they do quality jobs. Lots of them are waiting for an opening at customer service or answering service.
I’m not trying to discourage you about a music degree but it’s not that easy to get a job with a music degree. From what I heard there are millions of them that are out there already. Best they can do is performing at a bar.
Why not court reporting? Or RN? Just an idea. They make very good money. One of the theology guy is taking court reporting right now at night.