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Teacher Resigns After Classroom Battle
Kansas City TV 5 ^
| 1/25/02
| Staff Reporter
Posted on 01/26/2002 9:48:59 PM PST by KC Burke
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To: amom
Still home schooling those kids of yours?
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:15:55 PM PST
by
KC Burke
To: KC Burke
As a teacher friend of mine says, the schools are what they are because they are what the public wants. This is why all the money in the world is not going to produce meaningful reform.
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:16:42 PM PST
by
RobbyS
To: AlaskaErik
The ones that are in this profession are a dedicated lot. I know they don't get into it for the money.
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:18:48 PM PST
by
KC Burke
Comment #24 Removed by Moderator
To: JoeEveryman
On a side note...having one project worth 50% of the grade is reflective of a lazy teacher I don't think that was the teacher but policy
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:20:56 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: KC Burke
Good luck at University kids.
If you make it that far...
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:22:00 PM PST
by
Slapper
To: RobbyS
The distiction is that this is one aspect of government that any small group of neighborhood hold the purse strings on. If you can't keep your taxes down elsewhere in the vast range of governement Takings, you can at least starve your school district through Property Tax and Levy defeats.
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:22:09 PM PST
by
KC Burke
To: JoeEveryman
MORAL INTERITY is disappearing in our schools. That's not a shock to you is it?
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:22:23 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
To: KC Burke
A final project to collect and describe leaves for 10th grade biology [was plagarized]...by about a quarter of the class.Well well. Proof of yet one more generation of mental midgets taught nothing but drivel by the NEA. This final report (duh, leaves) should have been a piece of cake for 6th graders. Like that reported $49b hike for more education the Drunken Swimmer and Dubya posed for might make a difference.
No wonder America has to import professional brain power from overseas. Just how many carwash jobs can America generate for it's public schooled "educated" geniouses?
To: KC Burke
Sounds like a good place to 'freep'. Not so much to overturn the decision made, but just to show that it is the TEACHER who has a supportive public group.
It would ALSO make a public spectacle/embarassment of the cheaters and those who have TAUGHT them to be cheaters.
To: KC Burke
In your example there was probably a strong District Finacial Officer and a Superintendent standing behind them telling them what Had to be done. It appears that this teacher and her peers didn't have such effective support based on the superintendent's quote.
Actually, the Superintendent is weak. But here is what happened. A few days after the vote the newspaper reported that the now useless school building had been sold to a church to expand their elementary school. Many of the town leaders are members of the church. It was obvious that the papers had been drawn up and the deal agreed to prior to the council vote.
I'm a firm supporter of home schooling and private religous instruction. However the closing of a fine school that led the district in many categories, and its subsequent sale, stunk pretty good.
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:22:48 PM PST
by
Arkinsaw
To: KC Burke
Not only did the cheating students learn a dangerous lesson from their complaining/enabling parents and the compliant school board, but the honest kids were taught something as well.
And, here is the real news: this happens ALL the time. (Sorry, but it's true, and private schools are also not immune from it.)
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:24:13 PM PST
by
summer
To: Doctor Doom
It's just not government schools, it's also the mentality of the parents. If the school showed me one of my kids was a cheat, that baby's a$$ would be grass. Not the teachers.
Just went through a similair thing here. Our school got caught cheating on the state exam. A few parents were outraged at the mother that turned the school in. Amazing. I truly don't understand how this thought process works.
"Symbolism over substance" I guess. Gross.
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:26:08 PM PST
by
lizma
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To: summer
..., and private schools are also not immune from it.) You make a good additional point. As I felt when drafting my initial comment, the problems that we often lay at the feet of "the teachers" are often bigger, and your example points out that they are often beyond public education in general. Their cultural base is what I saw in this article.
It also looks like the teacher's union was no where to be seen when her back was to the wall and the kids were on the line. Where were they, it doesn't make that clear?
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:31:30 PM PST
by
KC Burke
To: JoeEveryman
Did you notice the part of the article I underlined? The parents apparently signed the sylibus which contained the plagerism prohibition.
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:34:53 PM PST
by
KC Burke
To: JoeEveryman
I still have knots on my head from one of my history teachers. She had soft hands and a long ruler. Ouch! That was back in the days when teachers got chewed out if the kids didn't work in class. Cheating was unheard of in my early days.
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:35:51 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
To: KC Burke
It also looks like the teacher's union was no where to be seen
More big news: the union, and the administrators, do not support teachers in these matters. Period. They are there to please the parents. The fact that the student has learned a horrible lesson does not occur to anyone except a conscience teacher.
Maybe that is yet another reason why up to 50% of new teachers leave the profession within five years. Some teachers do not want to teach these "lessons."
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:40:04 PM PST
by
summer
To: lizma
And transient Values over Enduring Virtues.
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:40:14 PM PST
by
KC Burke
To: KC Burke
"conscientious" is the word I meant to type in my previous post.
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posted on
01/26/2002 10:41:55 PM PST
by
summer
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