The problem with the education system in America (this has nothing to do with BDSM)

[morninggirl5]

Okay, now make up your mind. You wanna sit back and say "oh woe is me, the system sucks so I might as well do nothing"? Or are you going to take responsibility for yourself? The system is made up of individual people and one of the reasons it sucks so much is that a lot of people in it just don't care to do anything about themselves, many teachers and parents included. They expect someone else to take care of it instead of giving thier share of effort.

And anyway, why should I spend a week in your class? What's special about yours that it's more difficult to control the students than in any oth class room I've been in?

Don't want to spend a week in my classroom, pick another, any classroom. You think you know about classroom management because you were a student. You know nothing about classroom management until you've been in a classroom actually teaching.

If I'm throwing and attitude around, then so are you. You make it sounds like that just because you're a ateacher and I'm not that I don't have the right to an opinion on the isue or that because of your situation your opinion means more. well, I don't buy that.

Here are some wise words from the siglin of a poster on the General Board:

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.

Impossible is nothing."

The attitude you're throwing around is the exact same attitude that eventually leads great teachers to give up and leave education. YOU are the one bitching about a system and doing nothing to fix it. When have you volunteered in a school and saw what really happens in the classroom?

 

[John Doe]

Don't want to spend a week in my classroom, pick another, any classroom. You think you know about classroom management because you were a student. You know nothing about classroom management until you've been in a classroom actually teaching.

Who said I was a student? I've been in several classrooms and in several capacities.

The attitude you're throwing around is the exact same attitude that eventually leads great teachers to give up and leave education. YOU are the one bitching about a system and doing nothing to fix it. When have you volunteered in a school and saw what really happens in the classroom?

I'm not bitching about the system, you Marquis and Angelic Assassin are. and you have been from the start of this thread. What I'm saying is if YOU say you can't do anything worthwhile, then YOU do something to change it or try another career.

And what makes you think I'm not doing anything about it myself?

Speaking of attitudes, I hope you're not such an arrogant, condescending know-it-all with your students, otherwise no wonder you're having trouble with them.

If you want to quit, then do it. Don't blame someone ese because you don't like their attitude. Ulimately you can't do anything about what other people think or say, you have to worry about yourself and how you respond to them. You have to teach personal repsonsibility by example.

 

[John Doe]

You, sir, are a nitwit.

And you, sir, are judgemental, pompous, arrogant and sophomoric. I should know, so am I.

 

[nolimitsmaster]

Ah yes, the system claims another victim.

 

[lorddragonwolf]

i graduated from a florida school in 91 and saw the decline of many of the schools in my area. its bad when they have medal dectectors and students must now wear id cards around their necks.

Parents blame the teachers. But i lay the blame at home with the parents or parent.

 

[morninggirl5]

Ah yes, the system claims another victim.

I don't know if Andy Cuellen is really a former TFA recruit, but nothing in that story suprises me. TFA recruits "the best of the best" college graduates and then throws them in a classroom after a summer of workshops in education. They are in the very worst schools in any system and they're in a "sink or swim" situation with no lifejackets to be found.