this is my first blog. i'm sure it will show. so many things to be frustrated and out right angry about. of the people, by the people, for the people...when did it stop?
i am a high school teacher. this job should thrive as we choose to love our children. yes, we love them. teaching is no longer just telling kids what to add or what experiment to do or what verb to conjugate (tho that never seems to happen any more.) teaching now is comprised so greatly with, in actuality, parenting the kids we get.
i like in georgia. in my high school the blacks are 90% and whites 10%. do not misunderstand that the 90% are failures, because they are not. but present politics has put a large majority of them into the "i don't have to try because obama said he will take care of me and get me in college. he has fed my parents and grandparents and will take care of me. if i need i should be able to have it NOW. he PROMISED he would fix it. HE will find me work. HE will get me insurance. the white teachers don't know x*&!. i don't have to listen to them." this is a small percentage but is generational.
this year the biggest qualm was about letting kids who did not graduate/pass the EOCT's or graduation tests, walk in the graduation anyway. i guess they wanted the feeling of "time served." HOW did it even become a topic to discuss. you graduate or you do not!
yes, around 100% of the white, asian, indian kids gratuate. they WORK at it. they care. they have parents as support.
THEN there is the notion that the way you build education is thru either.
1. developing a DOE
2. fire teachers to save superintendents jobs...make them principals...who cares if they've never taught.
3. cut as much as you can from education(teachers) put it in technology. kids don't need to learn to write. kids don't need to research. kids don't need to think on their own. point and click...
well, as you can tell, i can rant for hours. i won't. we are surrounded by quick fixes that come from pushing aside the reality of education and how you get it and replaced it...quick fixes, no money and RACES TO THE TOP.
all you who read this please forgive me. do i have answers? yes am i fed up? yes but i love my kids and must prepare them, somehow, for the lunacy that awaits them.
it's good i teach theatre and now science. i'm sure i would have...well, not been very good
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This administartion has done nothing to promote self reliance and pride in accomplishmnet. I am from a very modest background but attended school in the 50's and sixties when the system was still in some sembelance of order. I went to engineering college and graduated , got a good job and have done well ever since. It all started with the desire to succeed and with pride in accomplishmnet, something schools don't teach anymore.
Too sad to comment..... God help us all! We all must get off our couch soap boxes and take a stand. Last week, for the first time in my life (and totally out of my comfort zone) I, and a group of friends) stood in front of the IRS building with our signs and flags to protest what is going on in government. Funny thing.... it was the fire fighters (in a big truck), a post man, and a couple policemen who honked and gave us the "right on" sign and honk. It felt good to assert our constitutional rights by taking part in the protest. God bless this great country.
So glad I'm retired. I saw the same thing, though I was in a suburban school system where most came from white collar families. when families started moving from Detroit into low income housing which by law must be provided in every municipality. While I experienced that attitude from many, I did have one parent who came to a conference who was as frustrated as I was with her child's lack of progress. She told me, "You can take the child out of Detroit, but you can't take Detroit out of the child."
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It is pathetic that what this teacher says is true. the owebomb is intentionally creating /perpetuating a whole generation of illiterate degenerate dependents that will some day have to be eliminated from the society either through education or culling. Perhaps that is what the owebombDeathCareEuthanasia program is all about, culling the misfits. Any society can only tolerate a finite proportion of dependency before it rebels/fails. This society has neared the saturation point.
I also find it interesting that the author did not use capitalization or punctuation in his/her blog EXCEPT when he/she wanted to shout at the reader. Teachers and society in general need to learn there is a big difference between education and intelligence and they do not necessarily equate.
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