It is not the teachers, Most of them a very good at what they do. it's the people up top have to do what the USA Government says. You know why, we let them tell our school boards if you don't do it our way we will take your money away. Also there should not be a teacher on your local School board. We as parents should have to spend time of some kind at the school every month. We are all to blame for this mess. So get off your butts and go to school and see for yourself where to put the blame, Oh yes go to the school board meeting, you sure will get a eye and ear full.
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Agreeing with hobo, it is NOT "them" doing it to US. We are doing it to ourselves. School systems and boards of educations and lawyers and everything else are only doing what we allow, elect, vote on etc....
If you're not doing something about it, you are part of the problem.
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I am a teacher with 20+ years of teaching experience. The changes in education have not been for the better. We started worrying about not hurting any child's self esteem for ANY reason and have gone down from there. Standards dropped and dropped more in that effort.
Poverty, two income families with no one home, broken homes, homelessness, drug/alcohol impairment, lack of parental involvement, government interference and worse unfunded mandates, unmotivated students............. who is to blame? If I could answer that one, I could be a rich educational consultant.
Topper to it all: No Child Left Behind = No Teacher Left Standing. Impossible goals with severe penalties for failing to continute to improve even if you are at a succeeding school.Insanity.
I LOVE my job and students but am exhausted by it all. This will be my last year. If I were to be choosing now, I would NOT choose education as my career. How sad this all is. I fear for our future...
sgtpp214 wrote: Can you say 'No Child Left Behind'. I taught from 1966 to 1972 when I went into another profession. Society has been dumbing down the educational system for the last 20 yrs and society always blames the teachers. Quite frankly I don't understand why anyone goes into the educational field today.
Teachers become teachers so they can make below minimum wage, so they can get totally frustrated because the system does not allow them to teach or discipline a child and so they can get verbally abused by parents who support the stuff the DISD is making them do. It is totally our fault that all the other nations in the world are out pacing us educationally. We the American public need to say "enough is enough"!!!
read somewhere that the USA is putting out less engineers and professions alike than ever before, other countries like India, china, japan are putting out more.... So what does the future hold... all kids wnat to do now is sit in front of the tv playing video games... even into their 20's and longer..
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Retired after 30 years. I taught mostly at the middle school level but did spend 9 years teaching in high school. During that career I saw many changes, most of them not for the best IMHO. To me, the demise started several years ago with the implementation of inclusion. Students identified with learning disabilities were sent into the regular classroom with regular teachers who were ill prepared to work with them and their special needs. The result was 25 students sitting or doing busy work while the teacher spent an inordinate amount of time with the other 2 or 3. Incidentally, the paperwork load on the teacher increased 10 fold as government guidelines had to be accounted for with "proof" the teacher was modifying the content sufficiently FOR EACH IDENTIFIED CHILD. One can hardly blame the poor teacher who finally crumbled under the load and eventually decided that the class could all do the modified work. Less preparation, less grading, and, sadly, less learning. The problem with new theories in education is just that. They are theories and therefore unproven. It takes a whole generation to discover it didn't work and thousands, perhaps millions, of students are found wanting when they graduate. All the other problems mentioned here certainly are factors, many of them major factors and when we put it all together we arrive in Dallas where it appears that we have finally given up.
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These sort of rules really would not change the way I would teach a class. So what if I don't get to fail a failing student. The good ones will still be good, and the bad ones will still be bad (despite their "good grades"). There will still be a grade distribution, it just won't be as great as it "normally" would be. All these sort of rules mean is that a teacher can no longer have the "joy" of failing a student.
Quote: Homework grades should be given only when the grades will "raise a student's average, not lower it."
•Teachers must accept overdue assignments, and their principal will decide whether students are to be penalized for missing deadlines.
•Students who flunk tests can retake the exam and keep the higher grade.
•Teachers cannot give a zero on an assignment unless they call parents and make "efforts to assist students in completing the work."
Yikes! What's with this? Are they in a district that will provide less funding to them based on the school's overall academic profile?? If so they should be working harder with the students to improve the grades and strength their education, not let them slide further behind. I'd have to agree with another poster, if it were my school district I'd either move, start a huge petition to ban the above practices or homeschool.
My daughter wants very much to teach when she graduates college, so she'll have to pick her schools carefully I guess, because she would never go along with those "allowances"
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