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3:29 pm - 10/11/2011
Obviously mainstream education is not for everyone and is not the be all and end all to knowledge (altho I do think everyone should AT LEAST be able to read, write do basic maths etc) but this is a bullshit ignorant statement.
Teachers have it hard enough as it is and for her to say they ALL failed is a douche move. Also the only people who 'failed' her are her parents when they let her start working aged EIGHT and didn't provide other learning alternatives for her from the start.
TYFYT ONTD
XOXO
Kristen Stewart still hasn't learned how to think before she speaks
In quite possibly the dumbest statement to come out of an actress’s mouth since Jessica Alba said “good actors never use a script,” Twilight star Kristen Stewart told British GQ that she quit school in the seventh grade because her teachers failed her. And as long as we’re pointing fingers, I’d also like to hear what Stephenie Meyer’s English teacher has to say for herself.
Actress Kristen Stewart has lashed out at her former teachers, insisting they “failed” to support her while she was away from class on acting jobs.
The Twilight star began performing when she was just eight years old, and balanced work with attending school before deciding to drop out of mainstream education in the seventh grade when she was in her early teens.
And Stewart tells Britain’s GQ magazine she felt forced to have home schooling because her teachers refused to help her catch up when she was working on location.
“School became genuinely uncomfortable,” she says. “I was feeling a little self-conscious about the acting thing with my peers, but also my teachers became a problem. They didn’t want to do the extra work or put packages together so I could keep up while away.”
“They failed me. My teachers failed me. Not one, but all of them. my teachers became a problem. They didn’t want to do the extra work or put packages together so I could keep up while away.”
The Twilight star began performing when she was just eight years old, and balanced work with attending school before deciding to drop out of mainstream education in the seventh grade when she was in her early teens.
And Stewart tells Britain’s GQ magazine she felt forced to have home schooling because her teachers refused to help her catch up when she was working on location.
“School became genuinely uncomfortable,” she says. “I was feeling a little self-conscious about the acting thing with my peers, but also my teachers became a problem. They didn’t want to do the extra work or put packages together so I could keep up while away.”
“They failed me. My teachers failed me. Not one, but all of them. my teachers became a problem. They didn’t want to do the extra work or put packages together so I could keep up while away.”
“They failed me. My teachers failed me. Not one, but all of them.
I’m always slightly ashamed in a way, about what I do.
(You should be ashamed, you are a terrible, terrible, 'actress')
I’m slightly embarrassed as I had such serious ambitions when I was younger, I just never imagined that I would ever have a reason not go to school. But then this happened.” [TheAge]
(You should be ashamed, you are a terrible, terrible, 'actress')
I’m slightly embarrassed as I had such serious ambitions when I was younger, I just never imagined that I would ever have a reason not go to school. But then this happened.” [TheAge]
Yes, how dare those a-hole teachers not double their workload and create a special lesson plan for no extra pay so you could serve your country in the important role of “child actress.”
People are always saying actors are selfish, entitled assholes, but I ask, isn’t it really the teachers? Whatever. You learn everything you need to know child acting anyway. “That Kristen Stewart, can’t add or subtract to save her life, but she sure can smile while eating oatmeal,” people say.
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People are always saying actors are selfish, entitled assholes, but I ask, isn’t it really the teachers? Whatever. You learn everything you need to know child acting anyway. “That Kristen Stewart, can’t add or subtract to save her life, but she sure can smile while eating oatmeal,” people say.
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Obviously mainstream education is not for everyone and is not the be all and end all to knowledge (altho I do think everyone should AT LEAST be able to read, write do basic maths etc) but this is a bullshit ignorant statement.
Teachers have it hard enough as it is and for her to say they ALL failed is a douche move. Also the only people who 'failed' her are her parents when they let her start working aged EIGHT and didn't provide other learning alternatives for her from the start.
What do you think ONTD?
p.s. Mods I don't understand what you want me to fix about the tags. Is there one I'm using wrong or something? Coz they show up when I do it...
TYFYT ONTD
XOXO
I remember one particular time in high school when everything was just SO rock-bottom shitty at home and I'd never let on in school, at all; no one ever had a clue - and one day I was walking into English class and right at the door my teacher took one look at me and said, "What's wrong? tell me." and I just looked so startled, then started breaking down right then and there and she told me to go wait in an empty classroom across the hall, called a teacher that had a spare to sub for her, and then joined me and I spilled my guts about ~everything~ for the first time in my life ever, and I was just so grateful that she existed.
/endstory
anyway I just wanted to say - teachers are awesome, in general.
Yet my friend who constantly skipped school with her boyfriend was given numerous alternative schooling options.
I ended up doing things on my own at home and now am in college which is more flexible. But yeah. Depends on the teacher.
please, i'm a teacher and sending a student who is out any work that they need to complete is as simple as making copy of my plan book and making sure they have any necessary materials (as in, a textbook) sure, it's not going to be as interesting as sitting in my class and having a dialog, doing activities, playing games, etc to learn the material but they'll have the work with little effort on my part.
this is dumb.
and i dont find her comment all that offensive
that was probably her personal experience, are you gonna sit there and say that didnt happen to her or something? and even so, she isnt saying "ALL teachers" she is saying all the teachers she had to deal with. I just dont get why her comments warranted this post, ridiculous.
And really - has she heard of tutors and homeschooling?? god knows she could certainly afford that route.
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Really Mister source, really.
I think that teachers always is problematic as they tend to see students as a collective and not as individuals.
don't generalize them, please. i've had plenty of teachers who were fucking amazing.
By all means, I'd like to you try to reach 90+ kids a year/semester, especially when students have different types of learning styles. You try to differentiate to fits all the different types of learners, but that is hard to do when you also have to worry about the pressures of state testing, which your job can depend on.
Yes, some teachers do not see students as individuals and that is sad. But you should not generalize all teachers like that. It takes a lot more work than you think
I guess some teachers "is" problematic, however that is a result of a horrible education system preventing us from really helping students. To say that we all "is" horrible teachers is just ignorant.
In terms of seeing students as a "collective," I can't disagree, but we have to look at the cause. In California, where I teach, we are underpaid, constantly pinkslipped, teaching classes of 40 students (yes, 40!), and are working with EL students, students with disabilities, and mixed-level students all because we lack the funding to keep support structures in place for these students, and lack the funding to have smaller class sizes.
Keeping ALL OF THIS in mind, I cannot blame a teacher who didn't want to take the extra time to make packets for her, grade piles of her work at once, etc. If I were her teacher I would have required her to be there for weekly/monthly meetings for packets. Anything further out would be ridiculous. You can't "teach" a student when they are gone for months at a time, especially if their only education is based on handouts--which we all know are a waste of time anyway!
As a teacher you learn to "stereotype" kids into categories for the sake of time management. I teach classes with 35+ kids. Based on the way that she comes off in interviews, I would categorize her into the "slacker" category. Who says that she would do the assignments even if her teacher had put the extra time in?
Her parents didn't think to hire a tutor? Parent fail.
I mean, they probably spent a shit ton on acting lessons and whatnot, so there's not excuse (financially) to NOT have one.
lmaoo sorry if i am laughing at this, but seeing you SOOOOO offended about what she said makes me gag . lol sorry for that.