Metadish, Fresh from NYC

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

In today’s “everybody is great” society, even fifth graders believe that what they “feel” matters. Here’s lesson number one kid, your feelings don’t matter to anyone but those close to you. You’ll learn the second lesson at summer school.

Then Frederick heard his name called, along with the names of 15 other kids, who were asked to get up and go to the side of the auditorium. They sat for 10 or 15 minutes as their classmates reshuffled to fill the empty seats.

Because they had failed state tests and are headed for summer school, they would have to sit out graduation.

First of all, this whole concept of “graduating” fifth grade blows my mind. Was I the only person who got out of fifth grade, took the summer off, and then went to sixth grade? But now, you graduate from 5th grade, 8th grade and 12th grade. Is this some sort of new phenomenon to try and make the kids feel good about themselves?

“I want to be in the graduation with my friends,” he said. “It would make me feel happier.”

Well kid, I want to collect a big fat paycheck every week without having to work for it. But like my dad used to tell me, “wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one gets full quicker”. Consider yourself lucky, you just learned an important life lesson long before most of your peers. Good luck with summer school though. I had to go to summer school once, other than taking up your time it’s pretty much like the easiest school in the world, because if it’s possible, the teachers want to be there even less than you do.

B’klyn 5th-grader sez school ’shamed’ him [Daily News]

Share This