bay area teacher to chef curry: " i love you, but don't come to my school"

[MegaTronBomb!]

I 100% thought this was written by a woman. The teacher gay AF. Especially when he was talkin about him being 6'3"

"You are a giant man" 6'3" aint that damn tall

if you're thinking in terms of pro sports it's not.... but for the average 6'3" person... they're almost always the tallest person in the room wherever they go.

 

[DeVanteSwing]

damn i want to agree but he comes off as such a dikk

He hit the nail on celebrity worship with kids, and it's gotten worse with social media. Ironically, he doesn't realize that this celebrity worship can be used positively. Steph could tell the kids to read every day, just like how he practices his shot every day, and they would do it because Stephen Curry told them too.

Athletes can have positive impacts on the community. Just look at LeBron's stuff in Ohio, he's taking kids where he never was before, in college...it's not all NBA recruitment BS like the teacher thinks

 

[Black Ball]

Is that really the message? Some of you might need to up your reading comprension

The teacher paints himself as someone who thinks black high school age kids from the hood don't have common sense or a sense of reality. Like they gonna drop everything and try to make the NBA if Steph drops by, even if they don't play ball like that. When in reality, alot of kids that age already think they aint gone be shyt. So seeing a successful black face in person talk about how far hard work can get you in life is only a bad thing to a borderline racist cac.

 

[USSInsiders]

Well tell that to many successful people then. Don't single out Steph. Who the hell does he want their role models to be? Who would he suggest come talk to these kids then? Can't be anybody who had any type of advantage in life. Can't be any leaders of society cause its only a few of them.
Dude wrote a trash blog post with a bunch of generic talking points and unnecessarily centered it around Steph with bullshyt reasoning, plain and simple.

Actually his post was anything but generic. It is extremely contrarian and refreshing. Athletes and entertainers are deified to a disgusting extent.

 

[USSInsiders]

I remember Dale Davis said something to a similar effect to a bunch of kids at City College. He was on some "99% of you guys are not gonna make it" type shyt. That whole time he wasn't stressing basketball. He was 100% on that fall back and have something to lean on which is education. While this teacher's dead on, why would the teacher assume Curry wouldn't keep it 100 with the kids there?

Because curry is the most cookie-cutter, boring ass, cliched fukking athlete there is. He would ramble some horseshyt about Jesus being his lord and savior and rattle off a bunch of cliches. He's a pretty face with ungodly talent and absolutely nothing interesting to say, aka 90-percent of professional athletes bar a few of the once-in-a-generation personalities.

 

[Black Ball]

you missed the point. no matter what Curry says it will go in one ear and out of the other. the moment they see him, they will believe they can be him. thats the point of the letter. yall missed it too. lol.

its nothing steph could say to change their minds. literally the moment he steps foot on campus the dreams start as if they already havent started while watching him on TV. it gets more ridiculous in dreamville when they meet him in person.

there isnt a single accountant, office worker, or blue collar dude that says "if it wasnt for X player from X pro team, i would not have been a normal average joe worker bee. thats mildly successful." no one says that. because when these guys come thru you start dreaming about being them. not being who you will most likely end up being.

He teaches high school, not elementary school. When was the last time you hung around some high school kids?

 

[USSInsiders]

No, if they could do would doing what is their teaching as a PROFESSION not teaching it

If he to enter a fighter in a tournament to save your life, would you choose a boxing trainer or a world boxing champion

People teach because they never made it or they are retired, past their prime

Some people have a gift for breaking things down and inspiring people. There are teachers in my life who genuinely inspired me and had an impact on me pause. Yeah, there's plenty of people that suck as teachers and have nothing else to do, but there are some people that are just born to educate and inspire others. It's an important job, but it gets absolutely no respect from almost everyone.

 

[Smokin Rider]

I hope 1 of his student goes all pro and shyts on him when they make it. I understand his points but it comes across like these kids ain't gon' be shyt so don't tell them otherwise.

 

[mcellas]

Dude trying to get attention so Steph can come out there

 

[jadillac]

you missed the point. no matter what Curry says it will go in one ear and out of the other. the moment they see him, they will believe they can be him. thats the point of the letter. yall missed it too. lol.

its nothing steph could say to change their minds. literally the moment he steps foot on campus the dreams start as if they already havent started while watching him on TV. it gets more ridiculous in dreamville when they meet him in person.

there isnt a single accountant, office worker, or blue collar dude that says "if it wasnt for X player from X pro team, i would not have been a normal average joe worker bee. thats mildly successful." no one says that. because when these guys come thru you start dreaming about being them. not being who you will most likely end up being.

No offense but this post sounds as dumb as the teacher.

Just bc you see steph curry standing in front of you doesn't mean you're gonna believe you can be him.

That's just asinine and again goes back to stereotyping every young black kid as being dumb and as having no goals outside of sports.

 

[jadillac]

Actually his post was anything but generic. It is extremely contrarian and refreshing. Athletes and entertainers are deified to a disgusting extent.

They are indeed. But that deification can be used for inspiration that you can be great too....at something.

Instead this teacher is against it completely bc of these kids backgrounds. Is it okay if steph curry goes and talks to rich kids in private schools?

He should just tell his students to drop out now.

 

[rapbeats]

Teacher acting like Steph didn't overcome any obstacles on the way to success.

WOW how easy it is for yall to understand and comprehend what was written.

stop being so quick to take a slight and pay attention to the Tone and context of the letter. what was the teacher REALLY trying to say?

Was the teacher trying to say "Steph you aint had to do Ish to make it this far." Was that the main point?

OR
was it, Steph you won so many lotteries in life before becoming who you are today. these kids did not win any of those lotteries so they have to use what they have which is their brains because thats more likely to pan out then a basketball or pro sport


A or B you choose which one the teacher was trying to convey? if you choose A, thats the very reason the teacher doesnt want steph to show up cause people like yourself and your dappers dont even understand simple reading comprehension. instead yall were probably day dreaming about being the next nba player vs paying attention in english class.

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

So um...who does he want to come to his school to show kids what they can be in The Bay?

There's actually a better chance of making the NBA than being black & working at Google, Oracle or Microsoft in Silican Valley

 

[rapbeats]

They are indeed. But that deification can be used for inspiration that you can be great too....at something.

Instead this teacher is against it completely bc of these kids backgrounds. Is it okay if steph curry goes and talks to rich kids in private schools?

He should just tell his students to drop out now.

the point of the letter is this. Name me some people that have used a visit from one of these guys as motivation to be great at some non sport thing? vs how many of these kids use it as a dream to keep living in fantasy land vs doing what they can actually achieve in life.

these star players can motivate grown ups that are already on the job. because a grown up can take a lesson from a sport and apply to his/her actual life/job. most kids cant do that yet. They dont even know that certain subjects is even worth learning because they dont think they will ever use them again(such as certain math and science classes). even though thats not the case.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I'll lay out my gripes with the portion of the essay that I read (could not finish that drivel).

1. We're talking about HS students. While the delusion of playing pro ball is real for many HS players, it's not real for those who can't even make the team...which is the vast majority of the school. In every other locale sports is used to build character and teach principles which can be applied in the real world. Steph may not have had it as hard as his students, but he can still tell relative tales of perseverance, dedication, hard work, and respecting those with more knowledge than him (coaches, teachers, parents, etc) even when he didn't want to. The students MAY not be able to make that logic leap to apply his words to their lives, but that's where you come in, teach!

2. His entire premise is built upon this flawed (in my opinion, and my experience) notion that the student athlete who is struggling with his grades is choosing bball over schoolwork. Often times that kid, like many of his peers who are not athletically gifted enough to make the team, doesn't like school and would struggle even if he got kicked off the team or blew out his knee and could never play again. On the contrary, sometimes it's his athletic prowess that grants him the extra attention in the classroom which can end up making a difference in his life.

3. And this is the point that many are either glossing over because you think this clown teacher is making valid points: none of this is Steph's doing. He's calling out, or namedropping Steph in a very attention whore-like manner. Not only is this not Steph's doing, those who are delusional about their bball chances are will be so with or without Steph speaking at their high school. Steph speaking would be far more likely to enlighten some young brother to the reality that a career in bball is far-fetched than it would be to turn some HS aged kid into believing in that dream all of a sudden....especially if there is a Q/A portion to his talk, where teach can steer the conversation.


Ultimately, I couldn't take this dude's tone anymore so I couldn't finish reading it.