3. What to do when your concerned with your childs lack of educational growth

What to do when your concerned with your childs lack of educational growth

Frustration can be a breakthrough though. You just have to push the right way. "This isn't it, you know it isn't it, so let's just...spit out things. Just say...whatever. SCREAM IT if it helps. We're tired, we're ready to be done, let's fucking finish it. YELL YOUR BEST ANSWER AND WHY!" I've gotten more "He hates his mom because she left him and he'll never forgive her" answers than "I don't know" when I let them break the boundaries of what school is supposed to be. Sometimes breaking down the fourth wall of "this is academic" versus "this is you and I in my office, I am inviting you to be a spaz, just say whatever comes to mind first and we'll work from it" gets results. You can USE frustration. You just have to know how to wield it. I've honestly just asked students to free associate and then built on that, when I had to. The brain is there, its working, you just have to tap it so it can do its magic the right way.

It's the same thing when I tell a student, in all seriousness, to cheat on the paper. I have students walk in and say they don't just want to write the paper I am expecting. I say...why not? I'll walk you through, step by step, the paper I want. If you learn to write that? When you can write that in your sleep? THEN you can write the papers you realllllly want to write. I'll look eagerly upon your final. I don't care that you're giving me lip service. I care that you know HOW to give me lip service. It is my immortal quote, "Once you learn the rules, you'll learn how to break them". But you can't break the rules until you understand how to break them well. Then you're an armature and everyone will know.

But trust is key. Trust that you can tell me you hate this fucking assignment and you hate English and you hate the book and I'll go, "Well, you're not the first" and just keep trucking. I even win kids over by announcing we're about to read one of the books I hate the worst. They will look at me like I am a lunatic. Why would I assign a book I hate? I always say because it is interesting. That's why. I hate reading this as much as you do. I put it off until bed, just like you. I hate my homework. I am not some superior being. But it is so god damned interesting we have to look at it and we have to think about it because it shaped human thought for centuries so...here we are! I am no more thrilled than you are! And then I give out candy for the person who can pick out the most irritating phrase in today's reading (heated competition) but I make them fall in love with it anyway. Not because it is good. Not because it is fun. Because it is interesting as hell.

I don't know why we try to pretend we aren't human. Standardized testing is created by evil people to make us crazy, but we endure it. Hawthorne sucks. I've read more Hawthorne than anyone has a right to read, but he is a terrible author. INCREDIBLE thinker, but his stories suck. Moby Dick is BORING. Ulysses is masturbatory as worst, genius at best, and your results will vary. You will be irritated, I can guarantee you that. You should read all of these texts because they are INTERESTING. You should read Game of Thrones because it is fun.

Don't confuse the two.

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