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June 2014 Moms
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Gender roles- in paper grading HELL
LEO2010
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Can I vent for one second to some beautiful, strong, mommas-to-be?
So I am an English teacher at a local college and this week is finals week. Naturally, I'm spending my evening grading research papers. The current paper in front of me is one of my favorite student's. He has a great mind and always up for some intellectual conversation. However, his paper is about old-school gender roles and how we should go back to them- men at work, women in the kitchen kind of stuff. Some of the gems:
"Single parent roles ruin household traditions"
"Men are doers, but women are step-by-step individuals" (what does this even mean?!)
"What's to say women being forced into the work force isn't the reason for the peril in the U.S."
Now- don't get me wrong...I was raised by a (mostly) stay-at-home Mom and would LOVE to be a stay-at-home Momma if possible. I have nothing, but the utmost respect for women who do this or who want to do this. I also have nothing but the utmost respect for working moms, and, as a teacher, I must put my instinctive reaction to FAIL aside and grade the paper in an unbiased manner, but DAMN! Can ya'll believe that someone is claiming that working moms could just possibly be the reason the U.S. isn't as great as it once was?
Now what are you all doing on the bump?! Get back in the kitchen and make your man a sandwich!
Rant over- paper grading commence. Thanks for listening
So I am an English teacher at a local college and this week is finals week. Naturally, I'm spending my evening grading research papers. The current paper in front of me is one of my favorite student's. He has a great mind and always up for some intellectual conversation. However, his paper is about old-school gender roles and how we should go back to them- men at work, women in the kitchen kind of stuff. Some of the gems:
"Single parent roles ruin household traditions"
"Men are doers, but women are step-by-step individuals" (what does this even mean?!)
"What's to say women being forced into the work force isn't the reason for the peril in the U.S."
Now- don't get me wrong...I was raised by a (mostly) stay-at-home Mom and would LOVE to be a stay-at-home Momma if possible. I have nothing, but the utmost respect for women who do this or who want to do this. I also have nothing but the utmost respect for working moms, and, as a teacher, I must put my instinctive reaction to FAIL aside and grade the paper in an unbiased manner, but DAMN! Can ya'll believe that someone is claiming that working moms could just possibly be the reason the U.S. isn't as great as it once was?
Now what are you all doing on the bump?! Get back in the kitchen and make your man a sandwich!
Rant over- paper grading commence. Thanks for listening
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Re: Gender roles- in paper grading HELL
Married DH 7/30/11
CSC arrived 5/7/12
CHC arrived 6/2/14
I believe that families are important to society but I would NEVER claim single parent households are damaging to society.
Sheesh.
MC: 3/22/16
He doesn't go as far to say that we shouldn't go to college, but he does definitely believe that "men are the stronger sex." He also says the Eve taking the apple from the snake proves that women have always loved bad boys (how this relates to his topic- I do not know).
They are graded on everything- spelling/grammar, content, research, formatting, etc- he got a D and that is NOT because I completely and whole-heartily disagree with everything he says (honest).
My brain hurts- I'm glad I have the bump to distract me...although it probably just hurts because I'm a woman and reading for a prolonged period probably strains my already smaller and weaker mind. Tehehe.
Good luck with your grading!!
That said, based on what you've posted I can TOTALLY see giving him a D. I used to teach English as well, not even at the college level, but that sort of writing would not fly in my classroom regardless of the topic. His arguments are based on nothing and don't even hang together.
That said, based on what you've posted I can TOTALLY see giving him a D. I used to teach English as well, not even at the college level, but that sort of writing would not fly in my classroom regardless of the topic. His arguments are based on nothing and don't even hang together.
No he has been a D writer all semester although he (I know it's hard to believe from this) is a deep thinker and loves to have philosophical discussions. His writing (no matter the topic) is D quality. The best part is- when he came into my office to hand the paper in- he bragged about how he thought it was his best paper yet and it should probably be saved and read to future classes (sometimes I save students' papers and read them as examples of what an excellent A paper sounds like.) I actually feel bad because he had such high expectations for the paper, but no English teacher or Dean could read this and think I was in the wrong- even if you just look at it in a purely technical way and ignore the content, lack of credible resources, and lack of actual support- it's still a mess.
The 3rd Amendment, in case you don't know, restricts the government from quartering soldiers in people's homes.
I'll never understand why kids think they can get away with this stuff.
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