[13Sisters76]

Cute.
I wrote it with paragraphs- they just didn't come through.
So, tell us, do you actually care about this? Or are you just interested in my paragraphs? Did you check my spelling too?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Spellings OK.

[Blueflag]

Don't let the HTML-bigots discourage you.

A NICE FReeper will often take a newbie post and reformat it for them.

Let's try to stay on topic here, fellow FReepers, eh? and not bust this lady for a novice posting faux pas

[Blueflag]

I'm wondering how many have been in a public school lately, to see the awful mess they have become. Or to see, first hand, what kind of children we have coming up who will be running things one day. I teach at a public high school in a large south-central metro area. I started here this year. Before this, I had been teaching in the military system, which I now realize is very different from the regular public schools.

The difference being that where parents actually have something to lose, they WILL control their children. I want you to know something of what it is like. Our "children" are beasts. They are rude, disrespectful, full of themselves, pretentious, out of control, sex obsessed and stupid. They know they don't have to behave because there isn't a thing on God's earth we can do to them.

The teachers cannot control the classrooms and we can't MAKE them learn anything. These little savages breeze through the system learning as little as possible. It isn't a stretch to realize that if a few of them can write their name, play ball or recite the words to the latest rap song, that is enough to graduate them. I WISH everyone could see an example of their reading, comprehension and writing "skills". I can promise you, you would be outraged.

What's even worse, they DON'T care. They don't want to hear about the future. They don't want to hear about excellence. They are stupid and proud. We spend a fortune on Special Education- would you like to know how most of that money is being spent? The resources of special education are being spent on kids who are too disruptive for a regular classroom. These kids aren't "differently-abled" for the most part. I had one little darling tell me that he was there because he didn't want to do the work. That's all.

I would love to bring you all in for an afternoon with an "honors class". I MUST wonder what, exactly, are the standards for "honors". There are a precious few kids in these classes who actually ARE brighter than the rest and, for them, I feel a great deal of sympathy. The atmosphere in these classes, as well, is not the least bit conducive to learning. One cannot teach when one cannot control the classrom. One cannot control the classroom when one if faced with parents who view discipline for their children as a lawsuit better than winning the lottery. One cannot teach or control the classroom when one is faced with parents as stupid and worthless as their kids.

I will be leaving the public school system at the end of this year. The very people who have allowed this state of affairs to continue will remain in place until the people of this country learn to stand up to the left wing education establishment who have helped to create this abysmal "black hole" and until parents are forced to take responsibility for their horrible kids. Until then, I urge the parents of young kids to get them OUT of it- private school, home school. There are other, FAR better, choices.

I'm heading for some OTHER type of job. I wanted to teach; I wanted to make a difference. Now, I am just bitter and angry. And more conservative than ever.

[Future Snake Eater]

I did. It's clean. ;-)

Your diatribe is exactly why my wife and I will homeschool. I thought my high school was actually pretty good, but college really opened my eyes as to how bad those prisons are.

[mollynme]

Don't worry about the formatting. It could have been worse. You can go here if you need some pointers.

My 82-year-old Mom has been teaching in the public schools for around 40 years (she still subs.) She is still proudly telling people how, 10 years ago, she camped out overnight in front of one of the local private Christian schools in order to secure one of the few remaining spots for her granddaughter. She just couldn't stand the thought of this sweet innocent being subjected to public schools like the ones she had been teaching in.

[khnyny]

Welcome to Free Republic and thank you for your heartfelt post. In answer to your question, yes, some of us care very much about the current state of the public school system. The US public educational system (in a lot of cases, not all) has turned into an abysmal failure.

[flada]

You have to use HTML when posting to Freerepublic. If you don't insert a <p> tag, you won't get a new paragraph. You should have seen the lack of formatting in your preview.