Jaime Fontaneta high school accounting teacher took to social media to tell about her frustration and anger in a video when you meet students who don’t know how to add or subtract.
Fontanet explained that he has been teaching in Puerto Rico’s education system for 8 years and is also a private accounting teacher. She explained that this 2022 started in a new school, which she was excited about, but found that at least this three students from three different grades did not know how to add or subtract in a simple mathematical equation.
“What’s going on? The 10th, 11th and 12th year students (seventh, first and second year of high school in the Argentine system), don’t know how to subtract and add. How will I cover accounting if these students don’t know how to subtract and add And this message is not for the students, it is for the parents. The real culprits here are the parents “, Fontanet expressed himself in the video on his Facebook account which has accumulated thousands of likes.
The high school teacher sent a strong message to parents to be more involved in the education of their sons and daughters.
“Your dad, what have you done with your kids? Who is raising the kids who go to school now? TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Fortnite, Clash of Clans, what else? They come to restaurants and they’re all with phones don’t” don’t not even talk to us. Inside the classroom I have to remove the phones in order to teach. There is time for everything, but your father, who is listening to me, you have to work at home with them, see what they are doing. When they arrive at 3pm to check their homework to see what they have done, “a girl’s father said.
The teacher acknowledged that there were academic delays due to the pandemic, but in the case of his students he said that it is assumed that already in the eighth grade, before the start of the pandemic, they already knew how to add and subtract.
Fontanet sent a message to fathers and mothers: “for iPhone and Samsung to stop raising your children and you begin to give our children values, responsibility, respect above all ”.
“It’s not their fault. It’s the parents. There’s a stream of abnormal parents,” concluded the teacher.
Source: Clarin
