Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck

Posted by me on 7/28/07

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This is really sad, i'll be teaching for the first time this year..
and i have always wanted to teaching, this is my passion and my
calling and it hurts me to think that this really happens...


On 5/15/07, razorfan wrote:
> I'm sick to death of hearing about education and teachers needing
> more money. I sat today at the annual meeting of the Mental
> Health Center for our county. It is appalling what some of these
> clinicians who work 40 hours + per week, 50 weeks per year, are on
> rotating call for emergencies, have to continue education to renew
> licensing requirements make far less than teachers.
>
> At my son's high school we have teachers acting like students.
> Wanting to be cool and relevant. Teachers who gossip, who sell
> drugs etc... We have teachers who are so inept and play power
> games with students to get them to jump through hoops to earn a
> passing grade rather than teach them to simply learn the material.
>
> Teachers who have so much technology available to post assignments
> etc... who refuse to "touch" technology. They miss out on all the
> students could be learning. But it seems they have the mentality
> of "that's not my job". So no one does what is needed to reach
> the students.
>
> I'm completely soured on teachers. I see a small handful who go
> above and beyond in their effort to teach the children to learn.
> The others just seem to collect a paycheck and qualify for
> teacher's retirement.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 3/14/07, by Donald Iarussi MBA/MFA.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 4/01/07, by Nancy.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 4/01/07, by Alabama's end result.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 4/02/07, by Nancy.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 5/15/07, by razorfan.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 5/20/07, by Moritz Weber.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 5/24/07, by Obviously Bev Hills school don't teach grammar/spelling nm.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 7/17/07, by Let me guess to "Donald".
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 7/17/07, by Let me guess to "Donald".
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 7/17/07, by Let me guess to "Donald".
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 7/28/07, by me.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 10/25/07, by a former public school victim.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 10/25/07, by a former public school victim.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck..., 11/29/07, by Steve.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 1/11/08, by Bob Simmons.