Screwed Up Education System

Breakerfall2010

polaris_x wrote:

i don't know whether to congratulate you or offer sympathy ... you know the system is fucked up when you are awarded teacher of the year and your students love you that you get laid off ...

i hope you don't lose faith as it's clear you have a gift and you are inded making the world a better place ... hopefully, you wind up in a community and system that appreciates what you are doing ...

Thank you so much for the encouraging words. I haven't lost faith yet, and the system that I have been a part of for so long is no longer part of the equation. The program I've created is still in its infant stages, and even if it faces bullshit from the system, its still going to go on strong.

Wobbie

Blockhead wrote:

I agree SCB. My wife is a teacher in Northern Kentucky at a rough "inner city" school and you just can't teach kids that don't want to learn or care. Its not easy to say that it is their jobs to do that when the 5th graders are 15 years old and have already mapped out their life. Things are as cut and dry to blame the whole system on Teachers. The problem i belive lies with the kids and their parents.

my wife is a teacher too. a damn good teacher. when newt was bashing teachers last night and saying we ought to turn schools over to the PARENTS, I about spit up my beer. (non-caring) PARENTS are most of the problem.