Vent: Complete and total lack of respect towards teachers on here

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What's funny is that few people have mentioned the admin or principals of our schools. We have a principal at our elementary that is systematically making life miserable for the older teachers, (taking away supplies, insulting them, etc) forcing them out of their jobs. He's replacing them with young female teachers. Hmmm.
He also is preventing the teachers from forming their own lesson plan. They teach out of a book that has what you do for everyday. Nothing else. How ils that going to catch their attention?
Our board of directors has outright said that they do not care about the needs of the teachers. We are a small district, there are more people in the school than the whole town. The elementary is k-6, with just under 600 kids. 20 teachers are going to be leaving for good from our district. Most of them are elective teachers and higher level teachers-which is what all of my classes are. Oh gee, you got rid of all of my classes.
In these "higher placement" classes, I doodle. and stare at things. and read. And I have straight A's. It's not the teachers fault (most of the time), it's what they are allowed to do.
 
If you only knew the money the money that I spend that comes out of my own pocket... the TIME that I spend that goes way above my job description... the worry that I feel as if your kids were my own... If people knew any of these things about me or any teacher, they would feel differently about us.

And the stories that stick with us! The decisions we make that haunt us later. Once I had to remove a student from a play I was directing because she missed practice. That decisions still haunts me to this day. If people only knew how much we cared!
 
When you cut right down to the bottom of this, I think the problem lies in the human tendency towards stereotyping professions/ethnic groups/whatever based on encounters with very bad examples of whatever group that happens to be the subject of the moment.

There are good and bad examples in all walks of life.
 
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Ive been in Public, Magnet, and private school. There are good teachers and there are bad teachers. ive seen threads on here with people sharing experience with bad teachers as well as sharing experience with GOOD teachers.

Rants and vents on here about the bad teachers - so what? I mean why would anyone want to complain about a good techer? bad teachers are what we want to fix. We dont come on here because a good techer got our blood pressure up and our adrenaline pumping.

I understand you might take offence at the "bashing" of these ignorant teachers, but its not like they are talking about you. They are talking about the teachers who dont know how to do their jobs and wasted years in school because they have nothing better to do with their mild brain functionality.

The fact that yall are defending teachers show that you are in fact GOOD teachers who take pride in their work. Dont worry about people downing the bad ones while they sit at home with a tub of ice cream and some reruns.
 
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I taught school for 40+ years. Teachers I taught with ranged from just plain downright stupid to super-intelligent; most were of above average intelligence and dedicated to their jobs. I taught gifted education and Chinese language/culture, i.e., I had the cream of the city for students and parents who spoiled me rotten and knew that I could be bribed with fudge and/or chocolate pie.
My opinion of any education system is that your child is lucky if he/she has a much-better-than-average teacher every third year of their school career; that's not to say that they weren't learning the other two years. Also nothing damages a student's education more than a trouble-making/uncooperative parent who blames the teacher for their child's shortcomings and/or misbehavior; that invariably starts a vicious cycle.
 
Personally I think any teacher who can stand up in front of a class of children, irrespective of the child's age, quite literally deserves a Medal of Honour.............. it is not easy to teach, it requires dedication, patience, understanding and a huge shoulder many times needed to cry upon............. so Bravo, Writer you will always have my vote!
 
My daughter is going into the 5th grade this year and 2 of her teachers were not 'teacher worthy' in my book. Didn't control bickering and a girl hit my daughter in front of this teacher and the teacher didn't do anything but say "we are going to be late for the bus, I don't have time for this" OK....Well she did when I called her up and then she just couldn't get any worthy explanations out. I could go on and on because this isn't the only situation that made me feel this way and but I am not an unreasonable woman or mother and these 2 made for a couple bad years of school. My daughter is in the honor club, makes straight As every year, plays ball every year and is a very good kid. All the other teachers throughout the years but these two were wonderful and made the years really enjoyable and a great experience....So...There are good and bad. I have considered home schooling due to the way schools run these days myself. It is a ligit concern sometimes IMO
 
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This is happening all across the country due to the economy and districts slashing budgets because of reductions at the state and federal level. It is cheaper to "buy out" teachers close to retirement and hire new teachers because new teachers are paid less than experienced ones.

He also is preventing the teachers from forming their own lesson plan. They teach out of a book that has what you do for everyday. Nothing else. How ils that going to catch their attention?

Government-mandated curriculum thanks to No Child Left Behind... The creativity in teaching is being sucked out.​
 
I agree with WoW original post. I see alot of teacher bashing and public school bashing here. Are our schools perfect? No, but this is one of the few systems in the world where everyone has an equal chance for a free education. In most European countries kids are sorted early, determining the level of education available to them. Only those children on a special track have an opportunity for univerisity study. We open our schools to the physically and mentally disabled, and provide specific programs for children with learning disablilities, and physical disablities. School sytems offer pre-school programs for children with mental and physical handicaps, including deafness, autism, speech delays and mental retardation Are there problems? Of course, but overall I believe our education system is sound.

Teachers come in all varieties but in 8 kid/years of education I have only have had one bad experience with a teacher. Note, I say bad experience. This teacher was absolutely wrong for my child, and her limited bag of tricks did not work on him; but she was not a bad teacher. My friend's child loved this teacher and had a great year. We've had some so-so teachers, but not a bad one.

I do see a great deal of teacher bashing here. Often it starts with "my kid had this experience at school, and....." and ends with people saying the teacher was completely in the wrong and "this is why I homeschool". I also see many examples of bad spelling, grammer and language usage on this forum. I am frequently guilty, particularly with spelling. However, everytime I see a post advocating homeschooling from a homeschool parent or child with blatant misspelling and bad grammer, I roll my eyes and think of the fine example they are setting. The same goes when I see a teacher's post with similar mistakes. Harsh, but true.
 
OK, everyone tell a story about the best teacher they ever had.

The best teacher I ever had anywhere was Dr. Valerie Kalter. She teaches physiology, embryology, endocrinology and histology both at my undergrad university and now is teaching as an adjunct at a nearby medical school. She had an incredible depth of knowledge and an amazing ability to present her logic in a calm, reasoned, Dr. Spock manner--an immensely important skill when you're the only woman professor in a large department full of very discriminatory men! When male professors gave her a hard time, she always handled the sexism gracefully and with poise and confidence. She was always fair in her grading, and her classes were tough. We studied for hours and hours, even discussed her lectures when we were in the middle of other classes. You had to bust your tail to do well in her classes, but when I got to graduate school all those hours studying were worth every minute: Grad school classes were a piece of cake compared to Dr. Kalter's essay exams!

I worked on an undergrad senior thesis with her, and she was extremely helpful and supportive. She taught me how to perform veterinary surgery and helped me mend a pigeon with a broken wing that we found on campus. She taught me how to give an oral presentation without getting nervous, too. She was, and is, a wonderful role model for women who wish to go into science.
 
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