"Bad Teachers".

I can't understand what is going on with some of our nation's teachers these days.




First, there is the case of the teacher in North Carolina who told her students that one of the things on her "bucket list" is to kill all black people. True story.


 "A student at Camden County High School in North Carolina was having lunch in the classroom when she began discussing with her teacher items on her bucket list.

Cynthia Ramsey, who teaches math at the school, reportedly shocked the student with one of her items.

"She conveyed to me that Mrs. Ramsey had indicated that if she only had 10 days to live that she would kill all black people," the student's mother, Kimberly Ashcraft, told WAVY-TV.

Ashcraft said she was shocked when her daughter reported this to her, and she wanted to make sure that her daughter had heard the teacher correctly. "I was completely shocked," Ashcraft told WAVY-TV. "I asked her again, 'Are you sure that was what you heard?' I could not have imagined a teacher saying that.

"I conveyed to my daughter that this is a very serious allegation and I need confirmation that this did happen," Ashcraft said.

The Camden County sheriff told the news station that other students who were nearby when the comment was made confirmed the account and that the teacher was suspended without pay.

The suspension lasted only a few days." [More here]

Most people want to visit an exotic country or jump out of a plane. Ms. Ramsey wants to see all black folks dead. I can just imagine the conversations over the dinner table in her house.


Then there is the case of the substitute teacher in Chicago who told two first generation Jamaicans who didn't want to be called African American that, to paraphrase, they are lucky they aren't being called the N-word like back in the day.  
 
"Two 13-year-old students, Zaria Daniel and Mea Thompson, charge that the substitute teacher in their eighth-grade social studies class uttered the N-word.


The kerfuffle occurred at Jay Stream Middle School in the unexceptional Chicago-area suburb of Carol Stream, Ill., Chicago Fox affiliate WFLD reports.


“She said, back then you guys would be considered (the N-word, plural) and we said well that’s not an appropriate term to use now, and she’s like well in history back then that’s what you’d be considered,” Thompson told the station. “I told her well we’re not in the past now, this is the present and I would not like to be called that.”


Daniel and Thompson are both black.


The unidentified teacher is a white woman in her sixties, according to WFLD.
The students say they were working a project involving the Cold War when the teacher approached them. The color of their skin came up, somehow, and the teacher identified the students — and two other students — as “African American.”


All four of us that were sitting there got offended because none of us are from Africa. I’m Jamaican. So we said, ‘Can you please not call us that?” Thompson told NBC Chicago. “She continued to call us that and said, ‘It’s the politically correct term.’ Then she said, ‘Well, back then you guys would be considered the N-word.”


Thompson said she was pretty surprised.


“We were like, ‘What? Excuse me?’” she told the NBC affiliate. “She was like, ‘Well, back then that’s what African Americans were called.’”


Daniel said she was shocked and also saddened.


“I just want people to know how much it affected us and I don’t want this to happen to anybody else,” the second student added.


NBC Chicago reports that the teacher has since told Jay Stream Middle School officials the same basic story the students have told.


School officials indicated they won’t be asking the teacher back when the need for substitutes arises in the future.


Meanwhile, Thompson’s mother, Shayna Thompson, has filed a police report. She wants the teacher slapped with a disorderly conduct charge and, possibly, a hate crime.
“I’m angry,” the mad mom told NBC Chicago. “It’s a new world, and the people of the past that still hang onto hatred and bigotry don’t belong in this world anymore.” [Source]
  


OK, bad racist white lady. But I have to get with my fellow yawdies as well.


FYI, you are African Americans just like your North American brothers and sisters. You just got off the boat a little sooner. Don't fall into the us vs. them trap where folks tell you that you are different than those "black Americans" because you come from another country. You are not. Your struggle and your history is inextricably linked to theirs. But I digress.


This does not excuse the behavior of this ignorant and clueless woman.


Thankfully she is substitute and it won't be hard to get rid of her.


Finally, there is the story of the teacher who quit the profession, not because of frustration with the system and unruly children (we get lots of those every year, and I can understand it), but because she wanted a career in....wait for it.....TWERKING!
 
"Forget about going to university and getting a job, kids. Now you can twerk for a living.


‘Jessica Vanessa’, a 22-year-old former kindergarten teacher from the US, has quit her job to pursue her lifelong dream of being “somebody big”.


For Ms Vanessa, that means becoming a social media celebrity. She’s been billed as the world’s “number one twerker” with more than two million followers on her Vine account.


“What I make in six seconds would have taken me four months to make [as a teacher],” she told Barcroft TV. “I bought a new car, paid it off in full and was able to get out of debt.”


That money is coming largely from advertisers, who pay her to mention their products. She doesn’t say how much she makes but it is reportedly “six figures”.' [Source] 


Wait a minute, "six figures" to twerk on the Internet? OK, I take that back. Maybe she isn't so much of a bad teacher as she is a smart one.


Go make your paper boo. The little rugrats will have to find another teacher to bring apples every day.  




*Pic from time.com