Em, how is school going? Any better? Or should I not ask?
Mwahahahahahaa....
Thank god I'm drunk. It's perhaps best not to ask. Some days, I'd just like to take a tazer to the lot of them.
I read an article the other day wherein a teacher says she doesn't believe in giving F's, that it's a sign that a teacher has just given up. And it really made me think, you know? It made me think, mostly, fuck you and the horse you rode in on, bitch.
But perhaps in slightly more polite terms, with longer sentences that refer to environment, class size, economics, and school culture. Also, how involved the probation officers get.
(In my more sober moments, I don't really think anything quite that rude. I absolutely and totally know where she's coming from -- given a situation where you can implement the things necessary to really work with students to raise grades. As I'm totally tipsy, I go for the more vulgar expression which briefly encapsulates my frustration with the situation and my near despair at the fate of students who have enormous potential and so little actual ambition. Because of my alcohol-influenced tersity, of course.)