True story. I taught 6th grade math for part of one year in an ill advised attempt to start a new career. The previous teacher, one of Obama’s peeps, had a grade book and lesson plans she was supposed to turn over to me. She didn’t and kept making excuses as to why she hadn’t. In the meantime I learned that the kids’s could not do even 2nd or 3rd grade arithmetic. When the principal threatened the old teacher with disciplinary action if she didn’t turn over the records I got them. The grades were mostly As and Bs on quizzes, hw, and tests. The lesson plans followed the book. It was all BS. She made it up as she went along. The kids did whatever they wanted while she droned on at the front of the room. I gave them a test they had supposedly already had. None of them passed, the highest score was around 30. I told my supervisor and she said I had to pass them. Next test I worked the whole thing on the board the day before the class and grades were about the same. Next test I did the actual test on the board while they were supposed to be doing it. Only 2 or 3 passed and highest score was in the 60s. When I told my supervisor she gave me “busy work” sheets for the kids and told me to grade them. Even then over half the class was failing. I stuck it out to the end of they year but was extremely glad to get out of there. If you’re a parent, don’t, don’t, don’t send your kid to public school if you can at all help it. Public education is in far worse shape than even most of it’s critics realize.
If you gave the kids the answers to the test by working them on the board the day before, and still only had 3 pass, I would have to say that Ms. Smith’s assessment is dead on. Some kids, I might even venture to say most in these urban hell holes, really are dumb as hell.
That said, if these kids really are a lost cause, why bother to pay a unionized “educator” upwards of 60K plus benefits when all you get is a highly paid babysitter? Why not just hire the babysitter?
You were right to get out of the teaching “profession”. The teachers and principals before you criminally submitted FALSE reports to the child, parents, and government.
So?...What would happen to any other professional who lied to a client/patient, misuse of tax dollars, and submitted false reports to the government?
Answer: Criminal prosecution, loss of license, and a big fat MALPRACRTICE suit.