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NC Teachers Chatboard TOP POSTS ALL POSTS SUBMIT POST Search Teachers.Net Advanced You're on the... NC Teachers Chatboard top posts | all posts | submit post Make NC Teachers a Favorite! We also recommend... State Teachers Mailring Lesson Plans • Math • Language Arts • Science • Social Studies • Music • Art & Crafts • Phys Ed • Other Teacher Chatboards • latest posts • by subject • by grade level • by state • all chatboards • language arts center • technology center • foreign language center • hot topics • interest groups Teaching Jobs Classroom Projects Teacher Mailrings Teachers.Net Gazette • Current Issue • Harry Wong Column • Teacher Classified Ads • classroom printables Site Map next post skip topic Print | Share | Report Post Re: You know what's really sad about all of this? Posted by Mikey777 on 10/01/08 I work in a highly diverse, poverty-stricken, low performing school that opened three years ago. In the cafeteria there is a huge photo of the original staff of 40. Guess what? 27 of them have already left. I will be gone after this year. More than half my class is EC. Three of my students can neither read nor write (I teach 4th grade). I have two "homeless" students. I have a child whose mother constantly forgets to give him his medication- when he doesn't take it, he hides under his desk, cries, and makes strange noises. I am so sick of the paperwork, the "behavioral contracts", and the jobless parents who sit home all day watching Jerry Springer re-runs while I'm busting my backside trying to help their kid. Did I mention the sewage smell around the campus when the wind blows the wrong way? I don't know another job/career where I would have to tolerate this. Yes, I feel your pain..... On 9/29/08, Tracey wrote: > I am glad to see someone tell the truth about this. Teachers at > schools with a large number of struggling students are punished-with > excessive and useless trainings and extra (again useless) paperwork. > No one seems to understand that punishing teachers will only run them > away from the school. Teachers typically do all they can and teach > their hearts out, but students take the tests and make the scores. > Not all students are straight A students. Many times they are doing > the best they can. Teachers motivate as much as humanly possible, > but we are not God. > > On 9/28/08, Bill T NC grade 6 science wrote: >> >> Making teachers at struggling schools jump through hoops, do >> mountains of paperwork and be "trained" half to death will > not >> change a thing. >> >> It won't help the students. >> >> I lived this scenario, during my last two years (NOT this year, >> thankfully...I got myself OUT!) at a school with many "at risk" >> students. Nothing got better. Instead, morale plummeted and a lot >> of staff members, most of them excellent teachers, departed. Where >> does that leave the students? How does that make things better? >> >> It didn't. It won't. >> >> Then why does it happen? >> >> Simple. Administration is covering their tails. They want to be >> able to prove they did all they could to make things better. This >> way, they can point the finger of blame at the classroom > teacher. >> >> Holding useless meetings and trainings and putting more >> responsibiity on already over stressed and over burdened teaches >> is hardly going to solve the problem, but the "suits" won't see >> that....can't see that. >> >> What I would not give to see a little leadership, somewhere in this >> country, somewhere in the educational establishment... RESPOND TO THIS POST START A NEW THREAD RETURN TO CHATBOARD Posts on this thread, including this one Very unhappy - wondering if it's my district or my school, 9/28/08, by 1st year/5th NC . Re: Very unhappy - wondering if it's my district or my schoo, 9/28/08, by It's typical . Re: Very unhappy - wondering if it's my district or my schoo, 9/28/08, by Anon. Re: Very unhappy - wondering if it's my district or my schoo, 9/28/08, by 1st year/5th/NC. Re: Very unhappy - wondering if it's my district or my schoo, 9/28/08, by OutOfTeachingInNC. Re: Very unhappy - wondering if it's my district or my schoo, 9/28/08, by Susan D. Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?, 9/28/08, by Bill T NC grade 6 science . Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?, 9/28/08, by I agree with Bill T. Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?, 9/28/08, by Bill T NC grade 6 science . Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?, 9/29/08, by 1st year/5th/NC. Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?, 9/29/08, by Susan D. Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?, 9/29/08, by Tracey. Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?, 9/30/08, by Stressed to the MAX.. Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?, 10/01/08, by Mikey777. Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?, 10/06/08, by I'm relocating to NC. Re: An additional truth is...., 10/07/08, by Bill T 6 NC. Re: An additional truth is...., 10/08/08, by bookworm.

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