Maybe you misunderstood. I am a teacher & I’m a good one. Every single profession has bad apples. You cannot fairly lump the bad ones in with the good ones who care. The bad ones make my blood boil.
I completely understand why parents choose a private school & homeschooling. I taught at a private Catholic school & a private free/hippie school & the parents were very invested in their child’s education. And many scrimped to send them. I also had the pleasure of being chosen to sign off on a home schooling family. The state required a licensed teacher to sign off on their curriculum. The dedication & creativity involved was impressive.
I work hard & don’t want to be lumped in w/ loser teachers. I just do not blame the mother, I blame a system that has allowed things to go unchecked.
“I just do not blame the mother, I blame a system that has allowed things to go unchecked.”
For an INSIDER that it a remarkably kind posting. I’ve had doctors and other medical insiders tell me that I’m full of Shiite for objecting to them asking little kids about guns in their household. EVERYONE ELSE agrees with me...but to the ‘insiders’ it becomes a kind of ‘First Amendment’ thing to them, even if it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with political speech.
In this case, I speak to the OVERALL SYSTEM. I’m not an idiot and I do realize that there are a few good apples.
But I also look at how we rank in relation to the rest of the world, and then just how much we SPEND ON EDUCATION and just what we get for it.
Bottom line is that it is PATHETIC - and I simply have ZERO SYMPATHY for ANY PARENT that expects better. The kids in our schools (at least 10% now Illegals, another 2% or so, but rising: Middle Eastern ‘refugees’) are HORRIBLE...for a parent to care more about how ‘rich’ she appears to her neighbors because her kids get a ‘free education’ is just SICKENING. For years we lived in apartments, but kept our kids out of that system. I don’t think that I have to tell you the answer regarding whether they preferred mom at home, in the apartment, versus mom working, but living in a house.
That’s is my MAIN POINT here.
My husband was a teacher for 24 years. His administration found his conservative ways (enforcing the dress code twice in two years and allowing student led discussion that occasionally included religion) to be “intimidating to students “. After a stressful few months of unjust persecution he resigned, took a severance package and agreed not to sue the district. He couldn’t be happier now that he is self employed -and firmly believes that godless public schools are not where Christians should send their children.
It doesn’t matter how good the teacher is-the tone and agenda is set by the administration. His former principal could have worked in a school in the former communist block and her methods and beliefs wouldn’t be any different than what she does now.
No one is allowed to stray from her idealology. And this is in a “good “ school district in the rural Midwest.