Florida teachers not happy.
It is difficult enough to be a surfer-parent, balancing the needs of young children with favorable swell reports, planned boat trips to the Ments with “da crew” etc. and now, with Covid keeping those young children learning at home, sucking up precious bandwidth typically dedicated to gazing at sunbathers on the beach etc. it is downright impossible.
Well, Floridian surfer-parents have discovered a solution.
Smoking “joints as big as cigars” while their young children finish online math tutorials and also drinking heavily.
Floridian teachers, obvious downers, are not happy.
Edith Pride, who teaches at Boca Raton Elementary School told Fox News:
“We need to make sure parents don’t get on the computer to help their children with joints in their hand and cigarettes in their mouth. Sometimes the joints are as big as cigars. You can’t do that! We’ve seen the parents in towels, we’ve seen them in underclothes, we’ve seen them in bras. It’s just inappropriate. The children can see it in the squares.”
Pride brought up her concerns at the school board meeting and other teachers chimed in with stories of 11 am beer drinking, partying and whatnot.
Surfer-parents have never been known for decorum but what are they to do? What solutions can there be?
Elysa Grossman, a Johns Hopkins University professor, and Susan Sonnenschein, at University Maryland Baltimore Campus, conducted a poll earlier this year and discovered that stressed parents are drinking more during the coronavirus pandemic, to say nothing of stressed surfer-parents.
“We found that parents who are stressed by having to help their children with distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic drink seven more drinks per month than parents who do not report feeling stressed by distance learning. These stressed parents are also twice as likely to report binge drinking at least once over the prior month than parents who are not stressed, according to our results.”
Again, obvious but what’s the fix?
Where’s the solve?
Should local surfer-parents get together and form a collective where the children learn in one room while adults smoke, drink, wander nude etc. in an adjacent room with no connecting door?
What would The Dude do?
Much to ponder.
Im in the east as well.
Still have a few gov housing.
Why are the cameras on anyway?
Teachers not happy ? Secure career , bankers delight , Late start , early finish , lots of surf time , never ending holidays , ok kids a tough ….
but they could deal with the kids ,just like parents do, self medicating with drugs and alcohol …. responsibly of course
nailed it
Na na na na hey hey goodbye…..
To the privacy of your own home.
How about minding your own business Mrs Pride? Or better yet, tell the damn school board you are ready to go back to the classroom and teach in person. Our local school had everyone on board to resume teaching at school except for one teacher in his early 40s that threatened lawsuits against the district if they dared go back. Even with covid precautions, etc. His exact words were “you will be sentencing my family and I to death should the district pursue this”. I’d say fire the clown but that would cost the district at least a quarter million dollars or so.
He could be re-educated and given a job in the public health system ?
The richies in La Jolla pulled their kids from public and went private. I read enrollment in public schools is down like 40% or somethin’.
Yes, and they are going full home schooling because they are homeschooling anyway.
I have peeps with cans in their hand answering the door at 11am.
I think i must have been about 8 and my mum was dating a guy that was later to become my year 8 maths teacher
We stayed at his house one weekend and I guess they went out for a while and told me and my brother to tidy the house
I have no idea what may have possessed us this day…but we went berserk. Got through our bedrooms, lounge, and in to the kitchen.
I opened a cupboard door and found what I believed to be a bowl half full of chopped up dirt and grass.
Calling upon my newfound cleanliness streak…and long held need to please…i washed that shit down the sink
Standing at the door proudly when my mum and her new school teacher boyfriend arrived home I couldnt wait for them to inspect my work
“You’re kitchen was so dirty…you even had a bowl of dirt in the cupboard”
Never seen someone move so fast, he headed straight to that kitchen door
They weren’t as pleased as I had anticipated
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… Just make sure you trim your weed in a different room.
I wasn’t sure if I failed as a surfer, or as a parent. Now I can fail as both.
I have to get signatures for parcels every day.
Believe me…it’s not only Floridians who get on the beers before noon.
UDLs for the real early crowd.
I’ll put forward the idea that it is stress. Not seeing a lot of pre-noon drinkies around my postie run. That being said, and I’m going to take a risk here, I am tempted by the Bundy and sarsaparilla cans available for a limited time.
Stress for sure.
My drinking has ramped up with this lock down.
I’m off to Dan’s after I get off here tbh.
If this continues
We can return to the swamp
Where we all belong!
Bongers/Beer drinkers
Lives
Matter…
For sure there are people getting deliveries who might be more than half-baked. You can tell by the sequence.
‘Knocks on door’.
‘Shuffle, scuffle, scuffle, scuffle. Curtain peels back slowly. Bloodshot eyes peer out’
“Relax dude, it’s just the postie”
“Package for …
“Oh, yeah, right. Fuck, what did I order this time. Heh, heh, heh, cough, cough, hack, hack hack…”
They were perhaps afraid is was not you , Postman Pie , but The UBER MENSCH …… Come to take them AWAY ?
It’s the bloodshot eyes that give them away. Not enough time for the Visine to hook in.
I miss the constant shark stories
Seems the easy answer would be send them back to school. But everyone is still running around scared shitless dipped in hand sanitizer to avoid the common cold.
The Dude: “Listen man! The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg cured Covid-19 man! I’m telling you, it did man. Watch the news. Covid-19 is cured man, it’s gone away. Are you hearing anything about Covid-19 anymore? Man, I’m not. Let the kids go back to school man. Hey man, you got a light?”
And a white russian.
I believe he referred to the beverage as “a Caucasian”.
The Dude abides…
Nah fuck it, he sparks that thing up in a bathrobe with a fresh drink
Shut up Donnie.