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Re: You know what's really sad about all of this?
Posted by I'm relocating to NC on 10/06/08

or maybe now I'm rethinking that decision!!!
You guys are scaring me!!! I am in New England, and am in my first year
of teaching. The plan is to get two years here under my belt (and get the
house cleaned up and ready to sell or rent) and head down to NC and find a
teaching job.
We work till 2:30 (students leave at 2:00). We had a staff meeting today
that ran till 3:00 and the principal couldn't apologize to us enough for
keeping us so late! The new computer program didn't work to get the
progress report grades in on time, so we were told that we would have to
figure them out manually -- and given 3 extra days to do them!!!
On the other hand, my friend who is a Spec. Ed. ed tech told me today that
they have to fill out a new series of paperwork documenting how much time
they spend working with each kid!!! -- he said that now he is NOT spending
time with students, because of all the time it takes to fill out the
papers!! So, maybe it will be bad here in a couple of years -- so at least
I will have the nice weather and lower heating bills to look forward to!!

On 10/01/08, Mikey777 wrote:
> 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...


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• 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.