Rockindeano wrote:artist4perry wrote:You want fun? Wait till you see what Obama has in store for your schools. We had a meeting today. More teaching to the test. But now we are just making the tests harder, and teachers jobs impossible. I wonder when teachers will just throw their hands up and go to a higher paying profession with fewer hoops to jump through. Oh and to add to the fun, we are doing something to the schools that have not been tried or tested yet. Your kids are the guinea pigs. I am all for school alignment, but not at the cost of learning. The tests hurt our kids. And they are getting frustrated with them and not caring a fig about passing them anymore. But it is coming to the point where if your kids don't pass them, they cannot get into a college. The ACT's are going to be a thing of the past, the proficiency tests are going to rule their world. Algebra is going to be introduced as early as the second grade. Parents, brush up on your math, your going to need it.
Still pissed off after a meeting at school today. Sorry for the venting. Back to your scheduled Political vent fest.
I just want to say, we need to be able to teach our kids the basics again, and not to a stupid standardized test. It started with Bush, and a concept that is fine in theory. But then Government stuck its big nose. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love you Ging, but your union is THE problem, same as Lula's. President Obama is SPOT on to increase teacher production/value. There are far too many who do NOTHING, and continue to reap a paycheck. Obama is absolutely correct, in that public schools need to improve. If you are a good teacher, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Kudos to the President.
No offense Deano, I loves you too..........but it is not just a problem of a few bad teachers. It is also a problem with student apathy.
Students are very lazy these days, and don't want to do any work at all, they are too into cell phones and social life. Not to mention we have so many that are just spoiled rotten at home and parents don't care what they do in school as long as they don't bug them.
Parents are growing more into single parent homes where the parents are too overworked and stressed to help students with work.
Many students go home to no food, or no decent home life. Hard to motivate a student who does not know where they will eat or sleep.
Students are raised to be rude, hateful, and disrespectful. These make teaching very difficult because they disrupt classroom learning. The teacher wastes so much time on disciplining the few that the larger student body does not get the full 45 minutes of instruction time.
Poor areas deal with kids that are on the welfare cycle. One student told me she did not need school, she will just grow up, have babies and get her check. This is a vicious cycle for many poor families.
Their own parents don't care if they do well in school. They were school dropouts so why would they expect more from their kids?
Schools across the nation are dealing with these problems. But the government does not take these things into consideration.
It must be all teachers must be stupid and don't want to help these kids. We rack our brains to help these kids.
They are so sick of the tests that they intentionally fail them.....they told us this.
Just wait, you have no idea what is in store. Teachers are going to quit outright, or like me will muddle through the social experiment for the sake of the love of teaching.
actually has a report out which is detrimental to the GOP.
