I would challenge anyone who thinks they can walk into a classroom and "teach" without prior training. Very few could do it. What's making it so difficult now is high-stakes testing and the accountability that accompanies it. Schools and even teachers themselves will tell you that they're not "teaching to the test," but I can tell you from working in education for nearly 7 years that this sort of statement is patently false.
Our state-mandated testing just ended a few weeks ago. You could feel the collective sigh of relief everywhere, and the change in classroom lessons and assessments the day after. I'm all for testing, but this high stakes stuff is for the birds, at least the way it's currently administered. For the expectations and accountability being foisted on them now, teaching is a crappy job. Add to that the sometimes adversarial relationship between the parents and teachers and it's really hard to justify doing it if you are a teacher. They all deserve medals. Not to mention the pay sucks. Dan --- LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My daughter spent a couple of years in college > working toward her teaching > cert. until she had a stint at the local school & > saw how things worked. > There were so many restrictions are "pre-prepared" > lesson plans than any > creativity on the part of the teacher was quashed. > She thought a robot > might do the job just as well. > > As it happens, last night I saw a video on the news > showing a teacher being > assaulted by a student - the teacher was being > interviewed & said there > would likely be *no* punishment of the female > student who had kicked and > punched the teacher - for asking the student to have > a seat - while the > other students egged her on. > > There's a major problem at work here - the patients > have taken over the > insane asylem - as recently as the 60s when I was a > student no one would > have dreamed at assaulting a teacher. Well there > were 1 or 2 who might > think about it but that's as far as it would have > actually gone . Now we > have teachers being assaulted on a regular basis. > > Seems the parents believe the teachers will teach > the kids social values - > and the teachers are prevented from offering *any* > punishment - if a student > were paddled as happened once in a while when I was > in elem school the > lawyers outside the school the next morning would > have looked like the US > Army preparing to land at Normandy! > > Which leads to my next thought - people who bring a > lawsuit should be > required to pay the legal bills if the suit is seen > to be frivilous. but > naturally with the lawyers running Congress we;ll > never see *real* judicial > reform! > > As Donald said recently, we have way too many > lawyers - > > Bye ya'll - this country is in deep do-do., > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
