One thing for us all to remember is that, as in any profession, there are poor, good and great people.
For example - in my area this year, the school district got a double payment from the state, by mistake. It amounted to over $850,000...big bucks for a rural area.
Instead of correcting it - they spent it.
When it was made public, they simply expected us taxpayers to come up with the shortfall.
It was put to a vote - in mid-May - with the district threatening that if we didn't okay it, the school would shut down immediately and the seniors would not graduate - indeed, seniors were told they wouldn't have their finals, their prom, their awards/presentation ceremony, etc, and would have to attend summer school to make up and graduate. (This was pretty standard scare tactics that had worked - sort of - in the past.)
The voters said no.
So, per usual, it was put to a second vote, with more dire predictions. The voters said NO!
So they went to the strategy that has always worked in the past to overturn the public vote - a straw vote at a meeting that usually consisted of about 80% teachers and teachers families.
Oops. The vote was still NO!
Guess what? The kids had their finals, got their caps and gowns, had their prom and awards/presentations night and graduation day!
However, half the teachers refused to attend the graduation ceremonies, to, as they said, "make a statement."
We got the message - we learned who the great teachers were - they were there, in support of the kids.
However, to simply say because your a teacher you can't misspell words ... Tee hee - "because your you're a teacher..."
There's that pesky grammar thing again.
Well, see, it's like this. This thread is about teaching, teachers, standards, etc., - so shouldn't errors in spelling, grammar and math be held to a higher level?
If the thread were about "global warming" (barf, excuse the example) wouldn't we object to junk science postulations?
I might agree with you if your talking about a writing an important assignment, etc. and there were gross mispellings. However, to simply say because your a teacher you can't misspell words on a Saturday morning on an informal board. Give me a break. Now your just nitpicking.
It's always to pick on the new guy....
Ahem, alvindsv, that really should be something like:
I might agree with you if your you were talking about a writing an important assignment, etc. and there were gross mispelling misspellings. However, to simply say [that] because your you are a teacher [that] you can't misspell words on a Saturday morning on an informal board [possibly missing a conclusion]. Give me a break. Now your you are just nitpicking.
Final point, FR is not an informal board. "Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. ". We do have threads that are formal, some are definitely informal, some defy classification. And, just like a new student in a classroom, as you begin to navigate the FR forums, you will encounter some rules that are written, and some are not written. You may not even know that you have broken a rule until someone brings it up. ;)
Welcome to FR, by the way!!