Why are teachers hypocrites?

[Anonymous]

So all my teachers complain about how much they hate technology and how it confuses them and it makes students dumb and only gives them distractions causing the teachers to not be able to assign as much work. Yet they assign us work in class then they use this hated technology to send us more online. Then in class they say they want to stop using technology. Why don't they stop using it then to send us emails and more homework? They can't have it both ways. why are they such hypocrites?

[myspacemybroke]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds more like they're saying to stop using technology in the sense of no ipods type of thing. They're using the technology for schoolwork which is the point of being in school, and if it makes their job easier why not right? That being said, I have noticed in my career as a human being that these so called "professional" teachers are as useless as two t*ts on a bull. I've come across about three or four teachers that actually seem like normal, useful people. They're just generally needy, annoying individuals with an overblown sense of self worth because they're "educated"...right.

Just to be a smartass next time a teachers says to stop using technology, put down your pen/pencil, stand up out of your desk and take your shoes off :).

[Anonymous]

It's not so much that they're hypocrites than that they're morons.

[paperplanes]

Haha! I know what you mean.

Perhaps, the technology we use is not school-related, whereas theirs is, and as students "that's what we should focus on."

[Anonymous]

I assumed they meant that we don't have to learn as much. Instead of knowing how to spell most things, we have spell check. Instead of absorbing certain information, we google it and forget it. Instead of working out formulas in our heads or on paper, we use a calculator (although most of my teachers allowed calculators, they made us show our work or we wouldn't get full credit for a correct answer). Technology also gives us a lot of distractions.

Also, your teachers are sending more assignments through email or something? wtf? Devious bastards!

[TheGoodTheBadTheHOT]

People are born hypocrites. But anyway, they're not being hypocritical, they are condoning the use of technology such as mobile phones during schooltime in class, not the use of it all together.

Also, in some cases, that may indeed be their view but they are required to use technology to increase 'active learning' - another bullsh*t PC plan enforced by the board of education.

[Asker]

well ours isn't with phones but computers more. my english teacher says he hates technology. yet he makes us turn in stuff online then hand in a hard copy because he doesn't like to grade papers online. so he never does anything with them. what's the point of uploading it if he's never going to look at them?

[TheGoodTheBadTheHOT]

In that case it's all to do with the PC 'active learning' bullsh*t. He's being forced to do it.

[Asker]

maybe. we don't even use PCs though. we hardly use our computers because of the division I'm in cause the business people usually just use them.

[TheGoodTheBadTheHOT]

Ahem.

By "PC" I mean political correctness.

[Asker]

yeah never heard of any of that at our school

[slipslender]

the world is an unfair place.

btw, YTIMH.