Too bad you can no longer employ this effective device.
Posted on 09/04/2007 6:11:12 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
I was all set to think you were an arrogant snot. Very good article. Thanks for sharing.
Just damnnn I going send this to my San Diego school teacher aunt
The problem is clear. As a teacher you have no authority and no one supporting you. The parents don’t care and the administrators will not discipline the trouble makers. I think my friend sank into a feeling of hopelessness. The kids were so far behind academically that his lesson plans were not applicable. Try teaching a physics class when most of the kids can’t even add or subtract.
If you are looking for another job, you certainly write well enough to be paid for it.
That needs to be some kind on must read! Sends that to Rush! This one needs to live forever in cyberspace!
I am keeping that and sending it to everyone I know. Thank you!
Close all public schools immediately. Give all the money (every penny) to Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, Baptist, Coptic, Zoroastrian and secular private schools that can prove they can graduate well-adjusted, well-educated and polite American citizens. Fire every teacher and principal and make them apply at the new schools. Fire every school board member and other “administrators” and let them find jobs elsewhere.
Things will only change when we stop funding the madness that is the public school system.
Good solution, but there’s an ACLU type waiting to sue you for infringing on the student’s right to listen to anything they want whenever they want.
Vent more often. That was excellent!
Too bad you can no longer employ this effective device.
... they are our Nation's future....
I taught in LA for one year. Then I got married and moved to a suburban school, and it was so much nicer. They had a copy machine that worked half the time, instead of never!
The reason the kids are so horrible there is because the principals do not discipline. They didn’t really discipline in my suburban school, either, but it was better than LA, and most of the parents backed me up. I wondered why the schools were so bad until I had a principal who actually did her job.
I escaped California and fled to the Midwest, where I taught in an inner-city school. What a difference! Our black students actually do better than our white students. Hispanics are doing in the middle, even though most of them are very recent immigrants (or maybe because of it). You know why? My principal put the fear of God into those kids if they got sent to her. Yeah, sometimes she took it too far, which was a shame, but at least the kids learned something. Because the discipline is there, teachers stay and have careers at that school, instead of leaving after a year or two like in LA. When I taught in LA a teacher who had five years of experience was a VETERAN. That’s nuts. Other schools have principals who do not keep discipline here, too, and they don’t have good scores. Or teachers who stay very long.
Anyway, it’s better teaching somewhere else, in my experience. I’m getting out anyway, I decided to go to law school at night and I’m in my last year.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Huge bttt. This is why our (eventual!) children will not be enrolled in LAUSD, even though we currently live within its borders. Even if we were in a better/affluent area with smarter kids from smarter parents, STILL the curriculum would be poisonous, something approaching what one might expect in Kim’s North Korea or Ceaucescu’s Romania.
I admire you, however, for fighting it out.
Not bad; I had a teacher with a perfect first day delivery as a freshman in my first semester majoring in G.I. Bill.
It was a 5-unit Algebra class and about 35 students showed up.
He stood at the front of the room and counted noses while pointing to each in turn, introduced himself and said that in two weeks exactly half of the class would be gone.
When he had our attention he described the class.
There would be three hours in each class of which two and one half would be lecture and practice; the last half hour would be a test on which we would be graded at the rate of one half the final score or grade.
Starting with the second class two days later the test would be the first half hour repeating this way except for the two days needed for the semi-final exam and the final which would count one fourth each.
Any absence would receive a failure for the test missed “F” marks the spot.
Two weeks later his prophecy proved to be optimistic; we were down to 13 students and all 13 passed the course.
The ACLU loses most of the lawsuits they file, that would simply be yet another one. Interestingly enough, not only is there no right to privacy for data on electronic devices brought onto school campuses, there is even specific indemnity for educators in case that data is compromised or lost, even through direct malicious action, in California.
That being said, the law means nothing to the ACLU, and you're right, they'd probably file a lawsuit, then file a lawsuit because not enough money is being spent on kids.
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