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> and listened more than spoke. Ah yes, the teacher who only listens to their students' feelings. The greatest wisdom of all comes from letting a bunch of kids
by orthecreedence 6y ago
> and listened more than spoke.
Ah yes, the teacher who only listens to their students' feelings. The greatest wisdom of all comes from letting a bunch of kids steamroll you.
> If you run through a field of land mines, you can't get mad when your legs get blown off.
This is the issue. What teenagers think about someone should not be a field of landmines. Teenagers are constantly whiplashed by emotion, easily offended, self-important, and constantly trying to impress and one-up each other.
The last thing we need to do with teenagers is shut up and let them speak. Yet now we've given a handful of them the power to fire someone based on their feelings. What message does this send?
- the_only_law 6y ago> This is the issue. What teenagers think about someone should not be a field of landmines. Teenagers are constantly whiplashed by emotion, easily offended, self-important, and constantly trying to impress and one-up each other. Sounds more like HN users.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoSounds more like HN users than like teenagers? No. Very much no.
- etchalon 6y agoHave you done a lot of work teaching with/mentoring teenagers?
- orthecreedence 6y agoI've done a lot of teenagering, enough to know that I'm glad people were there to challenge my emotionally-driven beliefs and not cave to my every whim.
- etchalon 6y agoMaybe, and hear me out, being a teenager and mentoring teenagers are different levels of expertise.