Comments on First Year Teacher, or: How I'm Becoming A Fascist: Your Child Is Not ADHD, He's Just An Asshole.

For posterity: Hi, Anonymous. You might have noti...

2009-03-08T19:32:00.000-07:00

For posterity: Hi, Anonymous. You might have noticed that many of the posts on this blog employ hyperbole (some posts do not even require you to infer this because they consciously mention my pension for exaggeration). And while the kid in this post is hypothetical, it so happens that he is also real. The bug-eyed stare was real, and the kid I'm talking about is on medication, and has much worse problems than ADHD. Also, I can tell the fucking difference between when someone doesn't understand a lesson and when someone is fucking with me. If you'd learn how to read for context, and perhaps maybe learn how to spell "symptom" correctly, as well as learn the rule that words or acronyms beginning with a vowel should be preceded by "an" and not "a", and on top that have the minimal care to capitalize the acronym ADHD, then perhaps you might gain a semblance of understanding for the nuance of what it is to, psychologically, be a teacher, you fucking simpleton. (Are you my old Assistant Principal?) You might be happy to know that I did quit (though I was asked to stay) and that I did not quit because of the students but because of the administration, who could not run a school. I am still, however, in education, and if your child (pardon my assumption; the ignorant usually reproduce) happens to be one of my students, I will surely teach them all that you cannot, and I will do it gladly, because, for God's sake, the child of someone who Googles ADHD and finds a dead blog and then comments without any kind of notion for what's going on, making a damn fool of themselves in the process--if not a child themselves--that child, or child of a child, deserves all the help they can get. I do regret two things: that you did not leave your email so that I could directly reply; and that I spent so many words on you. I hope you find this in good health. Good day.

You should quit your job now. Adhd is not their f...

2009-03-08T17:18:00.000-07:00

You should quit your job now. Adhd is not their fault. Staring bugged eye at you is a sympton as in they don't understand what you are saying. You should be ashamed. You need to talk to a adhd doctor and understand the symptons of it. It is not their fault.

i think that too many people are labeled as this A...

2007-10-27T21:01:00.000-07:00

i think that too many people are labeled as this ADHD ::: sometimes the issue is something that cannot be riddled away with medications ::: bad parenting can lead to badly behaving children ::: i see this all the time ::: >>>

Had you not broken up that uneasy, sociopathic pas...

2007-09-12T13:15:00.000-07:00

Had you not broken up that uneasy, sociopathic passage with such comedic genius as "disenfrenchfries," my heart would have jumped right out of my throat.

Thanks though, I needed that today. I've hit something of a wall at work and it's nice to see that I'm not the only one ready to go postal.