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Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck
Posted by me on 7/28/07

    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.

     
     

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