Well let me tell you. 35 kids in a class with one teacher who is expected to make sure every child accomplishes the same level of achievement no matter what their learning abilities or more importantly their disabilities are. Make time to council the despondent, reach all learning types, get in predictive test, pre-test, the regular test, post test, break down the data to figure out how to motivate the 3 drugged out kids who get high with their parents, attend meetings to discuss how to teach instead of actually "teaching". Let's not forget we are now judged on the basis of how that group of 35 teenagers score on a test that they might or might not be able to read. We are to accomplish all of this before going to work at our second job because this one doesn't pay enough to live on.
I get so tired of the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND argument. Yes children are left behind because policy makers and even the public have not made education a priority. How about we actually fund schools so high school class size can be a 20 to 1 ratio or less. While we are at it let's add on enough books for all students, the ability to make copies without the worry that we have used our alliotted amount, and parents your child is not perfect work with US not against us!!
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This is so well stated that anything I could write would be anticlimactic. As a Superintendent of Schools I have struggled with trying to get politicians to fund the needs, not wants, of the children in their district only to have them spin it to where I was a bad man that wanted to waste taxpayers money. they let their buildings decay, let their teachers work for wages that sometimes qualifies them for reduced lunch for their kids, let combination classrooms exist while spinning that it is a good thing, let benefits for all school employees slowly erode year after year, bash us for having to many administrators while we were all covered with some much paper work that we could not do what our jobs were intended to do, and the list goes on and on and on. Some of these people are evil. I am not just saying it. They are evil. They blame the victim and hide behind a pulpit or an office and claim they are the servant of the people spouting slogans such as no child left behind and no excuses….it makes me ill at times, angry at others, and yet sad all the time.....now look how you have me started.....anyway, this was a long winded way of saying thank you for such a wonderful blog site, and such a true post. Al Proffit, or on another blog...the Owl.
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