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by Terry

Feb 20, 2011

It is easy to blame any teacher for the lack of pasting state test, but the bigger picture is the students making efforts to learn. We test all student including the severe special education students with the same test at their grade level. I feel the frustration that they have for six days of state testing. After that we test 2 weeks out of the month to show achievements on their IEP's. We are dictated constantly in how to teach every year. Teaching is no longer giving the best education because the state government is taking control and demanding a lot of paperwork and documentation of projects from inservices. We have less time to teach but a lot of testing if given now days that prove limit elements of one's learning. The teacher protest is admanant and needed in order to contain a balance and rights for our schools. It's not about pay and pensions. If you want a public school in your community you need to be concern about what the Republicans are doing. We are not improving school...See MoreIt is easy to blame any teacher for the lack of pasting state test, but the bigger picture is the students making efforts to learn. We test all student including the severe special education students with the same test at their grade level. I feel the frustration that they have for six days of state testing. After that we test 2 weeks out of the month to show achievements on their IEP's. We are dictated constantly in how to teach every year. Teaching is no longer giving the best education because the state government is taking control and demanding a lot of paperwork and documentation of projects from inservices. We have less time to teach but a lot of testing if given now days that prove limit elements of one's learning. The teacher protest is admanant and needed in order to contain a balance and rights for our schools. It's not about pay and pensions. If you want a public school in your community you need to be concern about what the Republicans are doing. We are not improving schools by shutting them down, firing teachers are decreaseing funds. The no child left behind is a false testing and failure to all schools in the United States. I wouldn't expend a learning disable child, drug child, a mental challenge child and many other children to be at eighth grade skills in eighth grade. Some children don't have the ability to remember data, apply skills, but I do expect all children to learn at their rate and give them the best education possible. It is hard to do that when every year their are cut backs with staff and schools decrease their budgets. No one wants to stand up and support schools. The parents need to be more involved with learning at home. Schools are not the home. I afraid we are loosing our public schools and many more children are not given an education. I know that some do home schooling and from my experience that is a way to drop out of society. Their are a few that have good parental support and will succend with home schooling. There are others that are abused and neglected. We have multiple situations and problems in schools. We need to get back to the community and have the community give more support that the state and federal government. I wouldn't recommend teaching to the young people. The burn out rate is fast in the first five years. You can not make parents, principals and other teachers happy. We need to work together not destroy education. I support all teachers. It is dedication and frustation. It is not easy going everyday in the classroom with students that don't respect you. They swear, throw things, wreck the bathroom, come to school smelling bad day after day, plus thousands of other things. I have seen it all. We are not their to solve every problem from home, medical problem and emotional problem. The Wisconsin teachers should have the right to relate to their principals, school board and state department. Their are in the ones that have to implement the new teaching methods. Stay in their and I pray for your future. We need everyone to stand up and say enough. The graduation in the midwest is high and I am proud to have taught 32 years.

retired Iowa teacher

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