Appreciate Depreciate Fabricate Emulate

A couple days ago SCATS put up a post about Staff Appreciation Day being put on by the PTA and how they are looking for volunteers.

Of course the comments ran faster than a 1st grader's nose in March. Actually, the blog was posted because of comments on another post that steered the discussion that way, so it's really no surprise that the hits kept a comin'. We even got to hear from a teacher in the district, and not one who just posted one rant and ran away. Heated exchanges ensued? Sure. But readable for good reasons.

I would have loved loved LOVED to have heard from someone who has a family member in the GCSD and could actually admit that their relative was a selfish slacker. It always seems like when I am talking to a family with a teacher in it, people tell stories about how their family member's colleagues suck, but not the family member him/herself. Oh no, that family member is a good one. Well now that can't possibly be true, can it? Someone has to have the loser family member! Really, the way some of these blog posts go, it should a lot of someones.

So my question to the people complaining about teachers - last I checked, there were a LOT of teachers out there. So it would stand to reason that you might know one outside of the setting of being the teacher of one of your kids. So what do you think of THAT teacher? Are you all complaining because you are related to or know a teacher who is a loser, or because you are related to or know a teacher who is the only NON-loser? Just curious.

SCATS' SNERT

Over on the SCATS blog, the Sunday dramz is in full swing. Don't people go to church and get right with Gawd anymore?

Comment moderation across the site is enabled because of one old lady who has way too much time on her hands. She's blazed a trail through a few Rochester blogs and forums and now her profile is dying the slow death over on SCATS' blog. Looks like the procedure is to post and post and post some more until other people are sick of it and stop posting. Then it appears she is the only one who cares and contributes. Unless of course you are like SCATS and become a gatekeeper for the comments to tone it down. Or like rocmoms or D & C and just stifle the comments altogether somehow.

Usually she is over at another Greece blog that I will highlight in the future. But that blogger hadn't put up anything in almost a week so SCATS got bombarded. Everywhere. About everything. Over and over.

Will she hide herself behind anonymous, those people who she hates? Will it even work? I don't think she will want to go all ANON, because then who would know it is her and that's what she wants. Recognition. Self Validation. If she finds this blog she'll probably pretend to have a fit but secretly loooooove it.