[summer]

RE your post #72 - And I would be lying if I said that I would want to teach in a rough neighborhood again

Thanks for your thoughtful response. And, your very honest statement above. I don't want to teach in that kind of neighborhood again either, and I really wonder how that whole problem will ever be solved. At one time I thought if I made more money I would do it again, but now I realize there is no amount of money that would induce me to return there. I realize now many other teachers feel the same way. So, who teaches those kids? I have no idea. I only know I prefer my life now. I try to give what I can, but some situations are too heartbreaking for me to bear. How some of those kids make it day to day, I have no idea anymore.

[dwd1]

Ask a good question...You will always get an honest answer from me... Just wish I had a better answer.... You must be a teacher... You ask really hard questions.... :-)

[gipper81]

Thanks for your thoughtful response. And, your very honest statement above. I don't want to teach in that kind of neighborhood again either, and I really wonder how that whole problem will ever be solved. At one time I thought if I made more money I would do it again, but now I realize there is no amount of money that would induce me to return there. I realize now many other teachers feel the same way. So, who teaches those kids? I have no idea. I only know I prefer my life now. I try to give what I can, but some situations are too heartbreaking for me to bear. How some of those kids make it day to day, I have no idea anymore.

Correct. The amount of children that are being 'wherehoused' in school in this country, instead of taught, is simply amazing. Mostly courtesy of the NEA, your federal government, political correctness, fairness ... and the other usual reasons and the other usual suspects.