Look, Ma! No ferels!
Posted on 04/09/2018 9:29:55 AM PDT by Morgana
Wife and I have a combined total of seventy years in the classroom.We would never choose teaching today in light of the total disrespet from parents students and administration as well as the government dictating lesson plans.
Free? I do not know where you live but my school taxes support the local schools. I would call them anything but free since I do not have kids in the district anymore.
Methinks you do not know what you are talking about.Classrooms today are war zones
Our youngest is in Public School (4th grade) and the oldest is homeschooled (7th Grade). The young one is bored out of his mind with school, but lives for the social interaction. He’s a straight A student and a member of the Elementary National Honor Society, but is NOT being challenged in school at all. The oldest is homeschooled and puts in 6hrs of work daily. Sometimes he works on Saturday if he doesn’t finish up during the week (mama don’t play). He’s testing out at the 10th grade level and was selected to the Junior National Honor Society. Both will test well on the college entrant tests and both play sports (football, basketball and wrestling), but one is going to be light years ahead of the other in academics and work ethic while the other knows all of the latest dances and can cut you down to size with his snarky comebacks (he might not make it to 5th grade... just sayin). So... puts and takes ya know?
It was not always like that though. What she is having to deal with? Our teachers/principals would have tore us apart for messing up school property. Our class rooms never looked like that. These teachers have no control and are given none.
I remember in the 1st grade some kid did something to the pencil tray of his school desk, not sure what but the teacher made him go up to the lunch room and get a spoon and clean it out. Before she made him go she gave him a 10 minute lecture on not destroying school property. Kid never did it again, nor did his parents come the next day and chew her out.
Well, at least she did not have the student slam a heavy school door on her ankle breaking it like a student did twice here in Milwaukee. The teach quit, the student went on to injure other teachers ...
Babysitting the kids of 1/9’th of Mexico’s population takes its toll.
Thanks for posting that. It confirmed what I suspected. Rockwall is not the slums. It’s an upper middle class area outside of Dallas. Nice place.
Rockwell is a middle-class suburban community. Imagine what it’s like in a low-income inner city school.
$2k per month is equivalent to $12.50 per hour - after taxes.
I know that most teachers are not paid exorbitantly, but this is starting pay that is head and shoulders above what many of their age cohort make.
There is going to be a teacher crisis in this country before too many more years has passed unless the abuse of teachers stops.
After reading her poorly written rant, I say, "Good riddance”
The bookcase was not durable. It is missing one shelf and some pegs. A model with shelves screwed in place should have been bought.
The damaged dictionaries are in a metal basket prone to damaging things.
And oh my, a piece of gum is on a window frame.
Kiddies were always somewhat of a handful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_the_Menace_%28U.S._comics%29
And parents shouldn't say they can't afford to homeschool. The HSLDA says there are successful homeschoolers at every income level.
Think about that. At every income level.
It's not a question of what it costs. It's a question of what you value.
Look, Ma! No ferels!
The administrators push the teachers to just pass the miscreant ignoramuses along.
And this goes for colleges as well: I've seen an email from a student one semester from graduation from a university in Texas where the student couldn't write a single sentence using grammatical English and correct spelling.
The student (of course) was complaining about a grade and threatening to go to the Department Chair.
It's all about keeping enrollment up and the tax dollars flowing, not about education.
For second-wave feminists to have it all, mothers have to subcontract out the rearing and education of their children. Whereas the function of government schools in America’s benighted past was to educate and to inculcate citizenship, mothers now insist that schools also be responsible for civilizing the little monsters as well as feeding them, educating them, and entertaining them. “Rude parents” are dissatisfied customers who have been indoctrinated to believe that children are to be reared by the government school and cannot understand that a government school cannot replace a mother and a father.
However, this is all fine with the ruling elite. They are using government schools to dumb down the future generation and to indoctrinate it for a new progressive order.
“her ‘poorly paid’ profession”
We can’t all get into med school or law school.
The middle class is the norm in the USA.
To live well financially takes two full-time incomes in the USA generally.
Rockwall ISD Today
16,270 students
2,268 employees
$100 Million budget
http://www.rockwallisd.com/domain/48
The article is not very clear - its basically only a summary of the teacher's whinings and complaints. Every school has disruptive students and disrespectful parents. As a kid, even in my strict Catholic school, I remember having one or two soft/spineless teachers with whom the class knew we could misbehave (even though our parents would kick our butts if they found out). Maybe she is just very weak.
The difference between poor/black and well-off/white districts, IMHO, is the degree of student misbehavior and parentalal concern about education. Obviously, this problem is often much worse in the inner city, which led me to check the economic/racial nature of this district.
Note the benefits are definitely good, she's probably eligible for a public pension after 20-25 years, AND She only works 180 days a year.
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