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Thursday, November 03, 2011

We are doomed

I started a new job at the end of September.  It is a part-time, no benefits, fairly low paying job.  And yet, I am finding it quite stressful and anxiety producing.  Every day I am astonished at how rude, inconsiderate, and just plain nasty these kids are.  They lie, they cheat, and they do it looking you square in the eye.  The last time I worked with kids (about 15 years ago) they were no where near this miserable.  I want to shake the parents and holler at them, "teach your kids some manners and common decency!"

Every day I plaster a smile on my face and hope the kids are less evil than the day before.  So far I've been disappointed every day.  I find this a worrisome reflection of our society.

(Obviously there are a few good eggs, but the vast majority are extremely unpleasant.)

It may be time to start looking for yet another new job because I don't know if I can keep up the good cheer.

3 comments:

jo(e) said...

That sounds pretty discouraging.

Smellyann said...

Yikes! I'm so glad I don't get that kind of response to my own kids' behavior (except from my fellow parent, haha)...

Mary Stebbins Taitt said...

I sounds terrible. I must say, I had SOME of that when I was teaching (actually, I had a few kids like this when I taught college at a Christian college.) But I had a enough good kids to make it ALMOST tolerable.