Re: Ready to Go
Posted by Mikey777 on 10/03/08
I don't blame you. As I walked out the door and headed for my
car; totally exhausted and shaking from stress at about 5:00
PM (been at school since before 7:00 AM and STILL wasn't done
with everything!!!), I couldn't help but think that unless
there were MAJOR changes with our jobs and the educational
system in general, there will be a huge exodus of people
leaving our profession.
I am so tired of analyzing data!!! The single biggest factors
affecting my elementary students' academic careers are their
rotten home lives and their parents who either spoil or
neglect them. All the data in the world won't fix this.
All this NCLB !@X&! cannot last; no educational fad does. Our
economy is heading for a depression/recession and we will have
a new president soon. We have other priorities besides
spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a failed
accountability system and it will soon fall by the wayside.
I understand that the death of NCLB won't fix dummy parents or
unmotivated students, but it would make a HUGE difference and
that is what I'm hoping for.
On 10/03/08, almost done wrote:
> After much thought and consideration, I have decided that
> life is too short. I switched jobs this year in hopes
> that it would be better but I don't think "better" exists
> anymore. I will work out the year but I am pretty sure
> that this is it. They just keep piling on more and more
> and now it seems as though teaching is the smallest part
> of my job with assessments and data keeping being the
> largest part! Knowing that each month will bring me
> closer to a change will make it bearable.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Ready to Go, 10/03/08, by almost done.
- Re: Ready to Go, 10/03/08, by Mikey777.
- Re: Ready to Go, 10/05/08, by Miss Brooks.
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