Comments on: 2 lazy 2 teach

By: Soulja

Soulja — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:48:24 +0000

Similiar enough for you to know who it is, but hey i’m not perfect!

By: Ya know

Ya know — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:46:35 +0000

Jurassic 5 is NOT similiar to Maroon 5. You are reaching. Please stop.

By: E. Brown

E. Brown — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:37:09 +0000

Maroon 5’s rap?

Dear God, just stop posting. STOP.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:33:19 +0000

“…maybe if you guys got more out, you wouldn’t have so much hatred for people different than you!”

Out of the mouth of BABES, and so on.

You should learn the definition of the words “hatred”. This isn’t “hatred”. This is more condescending than hating.

By: Soulja

Soulja — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:29:56 +0000

I am not a female, if that’s what you are saying?

Secondly reading is cool, I’m not knocking you for reading. But there is more to life than to read books, maybe if you guys got more out, you wouldn’t have so much hatred for people different than you!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:21:05 +0000

Casual, I’ll throw in some loot to assure that she never, ever steps foot into a classroom! I had lazy teachers with her train of thought, and it’s a damned shame that I had to be rescued and thrown into what the government calls “advanced” classes just to learn about what should’ve been required reading for all. My best friend took “regular” classes, and you would’ve thought she was in a school for the retarded. What 12th grade class has to spend AN ENTIRE SEMESTER on “Lord of the Flies”, for goodness’ sakes? Oh! But at least they read the book – my school was GOOD for showing the movie instead!

By: Soulja

Soulja — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:19:55 +0000

My kids? I don’t have no kids, what are you crazy? I’M a kid for crying out loud!

I was talking about my fellow students, both in elementary and high school we all hated poetry!

I mean I can only speak of what I’ve seen!

But if you can remember all you have read, maybe you should get more out. There’s more to life than books!

By: Casual Observer

Casual Observer — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:16:46 +0000

“Middle school students can’t possibly appreciate great poetry anyways, so why waste both teacher and the pupils time?”

Listen to me. Please listen. I WILL PAY YOU MONEY NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN. I’m dead serious. Do you have paypal?

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:15:31 +0000

*points to Encyclopedia*

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you get your point across.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:13:01 +0000

Soulja, maybe your children are idiots – obviously, they’re being raised by one. But please don’t lump all young students into the same boat as your own.

I could run down a LONG spiel of the stuff I read from grade seven on, but trust me. You wouldn’t know any of it.

By: Soulja

Soulja — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:11:28 +0000

*Couldn’t*

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:02:20 +0000

“Middle school students can’t possibly appreciate great poetry anyways, so why waste both teacher and the pupils time?”

Please tell me you’re kidding.

By: Soulja

Soulja — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:59:33 +0000

George

So it’s ok for you to judge then?

Anyways you are absolutely right, it is the work OF a child, FOR children. This is NOT for college students, it’s for pupils in middle school. After they learn 15/3 is 5, they might read a Tupac poem. Not to showcase great poetry, but to show that it exist. The kids will probably relate more to the work of child, than to a 30-40 year old name!

Middle school students can’t possibly appreciate great poetry anyways, so why waste both teacher and the pupils time?

Do you remember what you read in middle school, I don’t!

That’s how I see it.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:59:17 +0000

“…”do you realize Janet Jackson and Tupac were friends and starred as lovers in “Poetic Justice?”

REALLY!?!?! Oh, my GAWD! I never knew that! Well, I guess that 2Pac is the greatest thing since sliced bread now! If JANET liked him, then he HAD to be a great guy – never mind that I NEVER said he was a bad one!

(computer, terminate sarcastic mode)

I think I’ll be quoting from this thread for weeks. Thank God for private schooling.

By: george

george — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:55:23 +0000

“ask a child who langston hughes is, then ask them who 2pac shakur is.”

That is, in a nutshell, the whole point of a formal education (from my perspective).

Although your post was courteous and I thank you for that, I disagree with your educational approach. A love of poetry does not require, in my opinion, a journey from the bottom to the top. It requires the best material, sustained contact, and good teaching.

But disagreement is the spice of life, is it not??