Austin’s Daily Commentary – July 26, 2023
Austin talks about the school year and parents and students doing their part. Transcription Austin: [00:00:00] Schools started back in certain portions of the listening area yesterday. And my wife…
Austin talks about the school year and parents and students doing their part.
Transcription
Austin: [00:00:00] Schools started back in certain portions of the listening area yesterday. And my wife is a Columbia County teacher, is very busy getting her classroom ready and her materials together for another wonderful school year. I watched this process every year, and I got to tell you, the teachers really bring it.
They for the most part, not all of them, but the vast majority of them, are really incredibly professional and do a wonderful job of making sure everything is in place as it needs to be. Only thing that routinely is missing in this process, year after year after year, is the effort of the students and the parents to do their end of the work. Understand what I'm saying...
Next semester, at the end of this semester rather, there are going to be students that come to my wife who have been told repeatedly week after week after week, finish assignments, do your work, turn your reports in, get your senior projects ready, and they put it off, put it off, put it off, put it off until the very last minute and they beg for time to do more. I need extra credit. I need to get my grade up. What can I do? What can I do? What can I do?
Sadly, too many administrators buckle under to the pressures of graduation rates and test scores and things of this nature. And they put the teachers in an incredibly precarious position. Folks, get your cotton pickin kids to do their cotton pickin and work on time and turn it in. My dad would have kicked my butt from here to hell and back if he thought that I was sitting down on the job when it came to just turning in work and putting in an effort.
Do what you're supposed to do as a student. Do your work, and quit begging teachers at the end of the semester to pick up your slack because you've been a piss poor student. Parents stay on them. Trust me, the teachers of the world will thank you. Your kids will thank you. The world at large will thank you. And that's the comment, I'm Austin Rhodes AM 580/95.1 FM News Talk WGAC. [00:00:00][0.0]
