Teachers: You Are the ADULT

This is a public service announcement: Teachers STOP trying to pacify a student's every need.
I REPEAT: Teachers STOP IT.

Parents are doing it enough these days, giving their children everything they want and when the child can't have their way, they throw a tantrum.

Note to parents and teachers: Ms. Griffin will not tolerate that behavior.

Don't be afraid of students, their children, although the food today makes them grow at extremely alarming rates, they are still children and I will treat them as such.

What ever happened to students being told what to do and they did it?

I had a teacher named Ms. Lois Jones, when I came to class, that room belonged to her, not me or my classmates or my mama - it belonged to Ms. Jones.  That's it, that's all. 

Now-a-days, students run the show, at school and at home (say what?!), yes, it's either the student's way or the highway. 

I was brought up in the old school, which means I like things done the old way.  Students will RESPECK me, in fact I demand it.  If I say no, after I've explained the situation, that's the end of the conversation - NEXT!  If I say no and the student decides to go find somebody else to help their cause, they wasted their time and that person's time.  A lot of new school teachers don't think this way and for the ones who do THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.

Students need to understand how the "real world" works and the only place in the real world where you can have things your way is McDonald's *insert side eye*.  I wish I might have tried to go over my military supervisor's head after he told me no, I would have found myself in the office of the commander watching him type my Letter of Counseling (LOC) (it's not good).

Students have this sense of entitlement, they have to have things their way, but if we allow them to keep this way of thinking they're going to go out into the world and get slapped in the face with some reality.