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October 13, 2005, 9:07 pm PDT
 Quote From: sellingen My 8th grade year was the last year in the public school system, health problems being the main reason but there were many, many more. First thing i must say to the parents: if your child tells you "this teacher is out to get me", dont just blow it off, you would be supprised how many situations that this is a fact. Nowadays a lot of teachers just teach for the paycheck, not for the passion of teaching. that was the case at my school. I have only had a few good teachers in the years that i attended public school, the rest just didnt really give a damn. sometimes parents will go and sit in on a class to see what their kid is complaining about...do you really think the teacher or the students will act the same as if no one from the outside was in there? the teacher doesnt want to deal with a complaining parent, so they arent going to mistreat any students. my old principal would do just about anything to get a parent out of his office. a lot of teachers JUST DONT CARE. personality conflicts are always an issue, sometimes they happen for no reason, and sometimes they happen because of the childs work in class. Homework and classwork have always been an issue with me. there should be no such thing as "home" work. you do learning at school, if you cant get everything done there then the teacher is not doing their job. When you stay up until 10 or 11 doing homework...that just isnt acceptable in my mind. teachers need to cut the useless stuff out of the curriculum and just do the basics. read the chapter, do an assignment. thats it. instead it seems like there is so much more. they push way too much onto kids. the homeschool parents will agree with me here. especially if your child has been in the public school system, y'all will back me up, HAH! What are you doing now? Are you attending a private school? An "alternative ed" program? Getting homeschooled? There are also programs out there to help you get a GED.
I understand your frustration. I agree that there are a lot of problems with the public school system and that it's hard to fix it. (I know because I've tried, but that's a long story.) But if you don't find a way to finish your education, you're only hurting yourself.
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October 16, 2005, 10:07 am PDT
Quote From: sellingen My 8th grade year was the last year in the public school system, health problems being the main reason but there were many, many more. First thing i must say to the parents: if your child tells you "this teacher is out to get me", dont just blow it off, you would be supprised how many situations that this is a fact. Nowadays a lot of teachers just teach for the paycheck, not for the passion of teaching. that was the case at my school. I have only had a few good teachers in the years that i attended public school, the rest just didnt really give a damn. sometimes parents will go and sit in on a class to see what their kid is complaining about...do you really think the teacher or the students will act the same as if no one from the outside was in there? the teacher doesnt want to deal with a complaining parent, so they arent going to mistreat any students. my old principal would do just about anything to get a parent out of his office. a lot of teachers JUST DONT CARE. personality conflicts are always an issue, sometimes they happen for no reason, and sometimes they happen because of the childs work in class. Homework and classwork have always been an issue with me. there should be no such thing as "home" work. you do learning at school, if you cant get everything done there then the teacher is not doing their job. When you stay up until 10 or 11 doing homework...that just isnt acceptable in my mind. teachers need to cut the useless stuff out of the curriculum and just do the basics. read the chapter, do an assignment. thats it. instead it seems like there is so much more. they push way too much onto kids. the homeschool parents will agree with me here. especially if your child has been in the public school system, y'all will back me up, HAH! This is so true! I am an adult that works in a major school district in Houston, Texas. I left a job at the elementary level that I loved, to transfer to my daughter's middle school, because there are some teachers' that just don't care. I am a paraeducator(para) and I sometimes joke that I'm just there for the paycheck, but really I'm not. That's what separates me from some of them. I CARE! I can't help it. I have been reading the message boards on "school issues" and I can see that schools around the country need to get a clue. With the doctors diagnosing autism and other disorders better than they have in the past, gone are the days' when we thought "little Johnny" was just a slow learner. I have been told by a fellow para that one of my daughter's teachers said this,"If they need any help at all, they shouldn't be in my class at all". This teacher teaches an upper level class in 6th grade and said something to me as a parent , that maybe in the on level classes that my kid would be able to keep up better. WRONG. There is a para in there now( as per her modifications states in the first place) and she has made everything so much better . All she needed was a little help and she wasn't the only one!
I also think the schools should get back to teaching the basics. In Texas all they do is teach the kids how to take "THE TEST". If you live in Texas you know what I'm talking about ! Well, with all these kids' with Asperger's syndrome(a form of high functioning autism), ADD/ADHD, OCD, CAPD(central auditory processing didorder), dyslexia, TBI( traumatic brain injury), bipolar disorder, etc., and the anxiety that all these kids go through on a regular school day( and trust me, they suffer more than the average kid) these schools and some of those teachers' better start DEALING WITH IT! whew! - that was a mouthful.
So when your kid says that a teacher is out to get them, you had better check it out. And let the teacher and the school FEEL your presence. There are a lot of people that really shouldn't be teaching out there, and there are probably some of them at your kids' school! |
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