This once more raises questions about what it is okay to joke about. The use of the word "tard" unsettles me, but I don't think the authors are really being mean-spirited. It reads more like cynical humor than vitriol. I suppose I'd have to see the teacher in action to really know if there is spite underlying this or not.
Is the stress-relief argument valid?
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On further reading, I'm slightly more unsettled. The use of profanity in particular bothers me, but I'm also seeing more than just exasperation.
Let me know what you think; if the link really bothers anyone I'll delete my previous post.
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I'm offended, but don't delete the link. The rationale of stress reduction is tripe.
I worked for years in different settings - special ed classes, day treatment centers and group homes. Sometimes I did bring my stories home and tell them in private - with people who had heard enough stories to see the students/clents as full human beings. With rare exceptions - and changing lots of the identifying details - do I tell a story in public that makes someone look bad. Someone with whom I was put in a position of power and trust.
As near as I can tell, any real contact info for the authors of the site is absent. Doesn't that alone tell you something?
Think about one of the justifications they are using - I'll paraphrase. "I'm the one who has to deal with these ____, and because of that I have the right to say whatever I want to say about them. And since they don't know about this, they don't get to respond. Nor do their parents."
What does that sound like to you?
The foul language on the site is the least of its problems.
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Ok, I got curious enough to follow the link.
This person has no business being a SEd teacher. Never mind how she reacts to stress. Or the fact that she tries really hard not to see her students outside of school. The two sentences that totally floored me:
quote: I still don't know why Malcolm wanted to be in the building so much.
Why on EARTH not? After all that, when things calmed down, why didn't she find out?? At the very least, for the practical reason that this might come up again.
quote: Despite this amazing effort, he didn't actually do any of the problems. Apparently after all that hard work making the booklet he didn't feel like putting anything in it.
Let me guess. She didn't reinforce his hard work, did she.
I have several friends who work in SEd, and they would be aghast. The stories they tell are sweet or, occasionally to vent frustration. None of this deliberate cruelty. And she thinks she doesn't make fun of her students??? Wow, talk about denial and delusion. If she wanted to tell funny stories, it would be so easy to do so minus the cruel sniping.
Just lovely, how she claims that any problems I have with the site or word choices are mine, not hers. No, of course none of the responsibility is hers.
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"This person has no business being a SEd teacher" Amen. They have no respect for the people they are working with.
That was the most offensive thing on this thread, to me.
Tards--"We wanted to make up a word [for the disabled students.]" What's wrong with "people," or "human beings?" Labels suck.
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This thread pre-dates me (just barely), but having had it brought to my attention, I though I'd comment on the nun joke:
quote:The butt of the joke, in this case, is the thug who doesn't "know what he's does." We laugh because of the play on words, but also because of an inner fear. The first nun says the thugs don't know what they are doing, in a moral sense. The second nun disagrees... by taking a totally different meaning of the phrase uttered by the first nun.
What some people may not know is that there is a VERY long history of anti-Catholicism that expresses itself by alleging that nuns are sex-fiends and that convents are house of prostitution.
"Get thee to a nunnery" is Shakespeare way of having Hamlet tell Ophelia she's a whore. There were a lot of books published in 19th century America about people "rescued" from sexual slavery in convents. Basically, it was the preferred way to publish pornography for a while.
So while the listener may not know this when laughing at the joke, be aware that it is part of a long, ugly tradition.
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No, of course none of the responsibility is hers.
