Re: About not getting jobs we're qualified for.......
Posted by: country hicks on 11/07/09
On 11/07/09, Elyssa wrote:
>
> Yes, unfortunately, these single young moms you speak of are the
> ones whose kids will eat up most of our educational resources, because
> these are the kids who tend to have the behavior issues and learning
> disabilities and disorders. Have you noticed that pattern? The moms
> keep having kids because there is a plethora of subsidies available to
> people in this situation, e.g., WIC, foodstamps, free breakfast and
> lunch (if you call that food) at school, HUD housing, daycare
> supplements, even supplements to their wages. In fact, most of these
> kids are being supported about 80% by government. Yet no one feels
> that we should impinge on the rights of these women to keep pumping out
> babies with different fathers every year. It is pathetic. And
> teachers have a higher and higher percentage of problem students to
> deal with in the classroom.
>
> ONE child with a severe behavior problem can disrupt a class. I
> have been in many, many classes, K-12, where as many as 50% of the
> students have some type of behavior or learning disorder that totall
> disrupts the learning environment, drives the teacher crazy, and
> deprives the normal students of their rightful education. Where does
> it stop? And BTW, almost of the aides I see should not be working in
> schools. They are often illiterate, slovenly, ignorant, uneducated,
> untrained, and possibly dangerous to students.
>
> Elyssa
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country hicks replies:
Out of 18 students in my class, there are only four that I deem
*normal*. Three of them are being checklisted right now, for severe
emotional/behavioural difficulties. One of them has severe mood swings;
he's happy and cooperating one minute, defiant and violent the next. I
sometimes wonder if he is bipolar. When he is unhappy, the entire class
suffers. I've just made it a point to punt him to the office when he
starts to get out of control. The other 10, well they're into
everyone's business. I have a soap opera running in my classroom every
day! Suffice it to say, the majority of kids in my class come from
single parent (mother) families.
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