Adams School

Adams Middle School was O.K., nothing special… it IS a public (i.e. government) school. There was a teacher there «Phil Gossette» who treated my daughter poorly. I don’t think it was meant as malice. He just wasn’t/isn’t that good of a teacher. He used to tease my daughter about her height, which she was already profoundly self-​aware of. When she came home crying and complaining to me that her teacher was teasing her about how short she was (and he is a pretty tall person himself), I went to the school and addressed Mr. Gossette’s behavior towards my daughter. Maybe he thought that he was just being funny… who knows. When I mentioned that his teasing of my daughter was really stressing her out and made he not want to go to «public» school, he acted surprised and lightly apologized and said that he wouldn’t do that anymore.
Then only a day or two later… my daughter came home crying again. When I asked what was wrong, she said that Mr. Gossette had teased her again about how short she is. Now I was getting angry. I spoke with this idiot teacher again, and again… he said that he hadn’t notices or could remember if he had teased my daughter. But once again, gave a non-​committal apology and said that he would try and be aware of how he addresses my daughter and the other students. I didn’t care for this teacher anymore after that, and was glad when my daughter didn’t have to have him again while still attending that (government indoctrinating) «public» school.
If I could have home schooled my kids… then I would have. My children… like most children… do not really enjoy public school, and that is because it is such a poorly designed system. My daughter, like me, has hated school from day one. I don’t blame any child for hating the government forced indoctrinating public school system. I don’t generally blame the teachers. There are some good teachers. But it is the WAY that the system is designed, operated and run that proves what a worthless overall system it is.
What do you remember «learning», I mean truly learning from your days of grammar school and high school? Nowadays, it is about test performance and attendance so the schools get their government money. That government money is OUR money! We PAY for it! And yet, our children get the crappiest, worst educations on the planet compared to most other advanced, industrialized nations. Most other industrialized countries are far more socially advanced than the United States is. As a matter of fact, the United States lags far, far behind most socially advanced countries. And we BRAG about it! Actually, uneducated Republicans and Tea Partiers brag about it. They don’t WANT to be intelligent. They don’t WANT to be known as intellectuals or be known for having any common sense or to behave with any compassion or empathy or civility or real love for their fellow human beings. My country embarrasses me. That is, the government embarrasses me. There ARE good Americans… even conservatives who mean well… they just don’t know any better… no thanks to the government forced taxpayer funded public school system.
School curriculum in this country is horrible. Especially when it comes to educating our kids about American history and the history of all other nations. Certainly, the existing system doesn’t make it any fun… that’s for sure. And I don’t mean to pick solely on Adams Middle School, it’s just that’s where my daughter was the most unhappy. Sorry Phil, hope you aren’t picking on any kids anymore. Because being picked on by an adult can be even worse than being picked on by your peers. Other than this school being just another government funded public school, I’d say that the schools my kid’s have attended here in Redondo Beach are better than those schools that all those kids of the poor and working poor in the inner city of South Central Los Angeles.
I wonder if our school systems will ever get the kind of upgrades and changes they really need anytime in the near future? I feel quite doubtful about it. But I can hope.