Christ, can I just vent about one of my jobs for second?

[intheflow]

I hate it, hate it, hate it! It's teaching religious education at a church, which I took because it was easy money and I have a ministry background. But I am now a staunch agnostic/borderline atheist and I just fucking hate organized religion. I hate working with privileged white people who are too ignorant to know they're privileged. I hate the idea that parents have that church school should be fun to exclusion of their child's spiritual education.

Case in point: I offended a parent by telling her that her children were disruptive brats in a class and of course her little darlings would never behave that way!! :eyes: Now the minister has issues with me and called me just to tell me he has issues with me but I shouldn't worry about until we can meet in person next week. WTF? Why not just fucking wait until next week to talk to me instead of ruining my whole fucking week knowing I'm in trouble? :banghead:

I just really, really, really wish I could quit this fucking job but I need the $500 a month it pays. :cry:

Thanks for listening to me vent/whine.

[Skittles]

1. hold your ground, itf, and stop being a wienie

the kids were disruptive - end of story - you are CORRECT to alert the parent

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. MiddleFingerMomSis taught at an exclusive public school in California...

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...and one of her students was the grandson (or great-, or great-great-grandson) of J. Paul Getty.
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Back during the oil crisis of the 70's(?), the students were supposed to bring in their blazers for some reason.
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Young Master Getty forgot his and told MiddleFingerMomSis that he would be calling his chauffeur to fetch it along.
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She asked him if he were aware there was an oil shortage and made him walk home to get it.
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Obviously... she found that very satisfying (and fortunately, not to mention surprisingly -- the parents did, too).
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[intheflow]

3. Nowadays the kid would have walked out of her classroom

and cal the chauffeur anyway on his cell phone. But it is a satisfying story how it unfolded. :)

[struggle4progress]

4. I guess I wouldn't teach a subject I disliked. But if you're teaching children,

there ought to be opportunities there to impart some basic history, some ideas about how the church's dogma evolved, and some basic values, by encouraging students to discuss matters

It's difficult to teach if one has ideas such as the students are "ignorant" -- the whole task is to try to lead the students to develop their own insights, since (naturally) one does not really expect anyone to listen to take anybody else's ideas seriously

[intheflow]

6. I don't think the students are ignorant,

but I do think their parents don't take the church school curriculum seriously. Like, it's just something fun for their kids on Sunday morning while they (the parents) try to seek some spiritual enlightenment in the adult service. I mean, if it's not really "school," why offer any instruction at all? It would be much easier and cheaper to just hire childcare and let the kids play for any hour. And because the parents aren't taking the church school seriously, they're implicitly teaching their kids it's not something the kids have to take seriously, either. This is the biggest frustration for me.

[struggle4progress]

5. dupe delete