It’s difficult to remain stoic as
Intelligence ceases to be sought.
Sad to see book leaves go unturned,
And find that no one wants to be taught.
I’ve a cacoethes to give knowledge,
A quality education is what I bring.
But it’s tiresome to have to prod
Someone to want to learn many things.
They cavil, not specific in their excuses,
Only wanting to hear what’s on the test.
They don’t seek quality of instruction,
Not choosing to bank all of the rest.
I say knowledge is like a glass of sweet tea
That makes us drool saliva at the thought
Of drinking it all down to the very last drop,
So, please partake of all that you’ve bought.
Written for Wordle #180 from Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. The prompts are:
Cacoethes- an irresistible urge: mania
Cavil- to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily
Bring
Specific
Bank
Saliva
Quality
Last
Glass
Prod
Leaf
Stoic
Help from Heaven 
Are you a teacher? That is a perfect display of students in many public schools in this day and age.
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I am a professor who returned to the classroom after two years, as I was tired of doing nothing. But, I am rethinking it. I am teaching at a local college, whereas I was used to four-year universities and more prepared students. I wondered if their attitudes are from high school, as I teach a freshman level introduction to sociology. I tell them that college is not high school 2.0, and that they have to work for their grades, but they don’t seem to understand that whole notion, some not even writing the written assignments. I am simply flabbergasted.
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I was teaching high school and the attitude was “I’m not fucking doing that”. I’m like, what? After losing my son, who loved education and was brilliant I couldn’t go back. I have no empathy for it.
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I thought it was just me and that i was a bad person. I just don’t know if my soul can survive another semester.
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I can’t go back into a classroom. I want to become a Spec. Ed Director but I was offered the chance to get a classroom job and I can’t…Losing my son has broken my heart more than imaginable and if I hear a student say that they don’t need education I think I will snap. My son just graduated high school and was heading to Florida Institute of Technology. He was brilliant.
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I am so sorry that you lost your son. I lost my son in 2006, one week after he attended my PhD graduation. He stopped taking heart rejection medicine. He was tired, I guess. It is the toughest loss ever. I am praying for peace for you. Take your time and don’t let anyone tell you how long to grieve or how to grieve. It is the worst horror one can experience in a lifetime, or even two lifetimes. My condolences.
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Thank you. I just joined a support group because the grief is overwhelming. I lost my husband 13 months before my son. I have had a difficult 18 months.
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Oh, that is so much pain to endure! There are no words!
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Sorry for your loss as well.
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Had you ever heard of the word cacoethes? Yikes….I’ll bet you $5 we’ll both have forgotten it within the month….how dare they? ;o)
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I had no clue of it, and by the way Word kept insisting it was spelled wrong, I am assuming it isn’t a much-used word.
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