Thursday, March 3, 2011
Teaching without a union worries me :(
Teacher's are becoming the targets for students failure and careless behavior when it comes to education. Instead of taking responsibility for their lack of effort in the classroom, students and parents are blaming teachers. Instead of looking at NCLB and the high standards we are holding all students to, let's just blame teachers. It all comes down to the teacher. Then to top it off, our union rights are being challenged. I honestly can not believe what is going on. I chose to become a teacher to help students, not to fight off ridicule from everyone that is not a teacher. This entire situation is making me reconsider my choice to become a teacher. I am constantly defending my profession and I am getting sick of it. People do not understand what goes on in the classroom unless you really take the time to observe and spend time in the classroom. But who really wants to take the time out of their schedule to do that. Its frustrating, as you all know, and I am worried about what public education is going to become in the future.
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I have a set of parents that are upset that their son is failing all his classes. After multiple attempts to devise a plan with the parents and to get them involved in their son's academic progress (as they did not attend any of the meetings), they want to know what we, as a school, are going to do to get their son to pass. This student has only been in school for 14 days, refuses to bring any materials to class, work during class time , and parents have requested that we do not send work home because they are too busy to do homework. Yet our pay and jobs should be based on student performance. Really????
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