Posted on 10/21/2004 6:17:28 PM PDT by mlmr
As a former teacher in government schools I can say that long before NCLB parents had to excuse partial and full day absense for their children. My son's school wanted a call in the morning of the absense in liu of a note. (Remember the joke about the school official who asked, "Who is this?" and the kid replied, "This is my Mother".)
You are of course correct about public school teachers being paid well for not carring one whit about the kids education. (In general this is the union's view, there are specific teachers who care a great deal.) But you are wrong about job security. After 10 years I was laid off on a strictly senority basis. If they had gone on subject matter, subject mastery, or merit I would have been kept and some other teacher closer to retirement would have been laid off. But Asi es la vida. Enjoy your work, and don't be too upset about the pay. Save and invest for your retirement, and enjoy that too.
I've asked the teacher to send home unfinished work and let my daughter go to recess, and the teacher has a problem with this.
My daughter has been in tears over this several times a week, since school started.
Talk to the teacher, if she is unable to comply take it to the principle. If you dont get what your daughter needs, pull her if it is a possibility.
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the teachers for not wanting to be held accountable. Most of these kids are coming into the classroom with no discipline whatsoever. It's enough just to control these disrespectful, foul-mouthed brats. Until parents support teachers, rather than undermine them, and until strict corporal discipline is re-established in the classroom, serious learning will never return to our public schools.
NCLB addresses the effect but not the cause.
No she's not. The teacher is not in the room with the kids.
Former P.s. teacher here too. My kids are in a parochial school!
I left the profession before NCLB. Outcome based ed. was all the rage when I left. They were instituting it my district and it was making me ill! Hopefully NCLB is taking those watered down standards resulting from OBE and jacking them up a lot.
Because I have been single parenting it for a long time now, and it is obvious that this is our future. I have been working full time and homeschooling four for the past three years. I have wonderful friends.
I am exhausted.
I cannot do it any more.
My wife teaches in a public school. She says that all of the teachers and administration--all of them--hate No Child Left Behind with a loathing that can hardly be comprehended.
I think is has something to do with the fact that if the school continues to fail, time after time, parents will be given the option of transferring the child to another school.
I think it has more to do with NEA bellyaching. Most teachers are extremely gullible and believe whatever the local NEA goon spoon feeds them.
Cheers!
Who is with the child?
As a former teacher in government schools I can say that long before NCLB parents had to excuse partial and full day absense for their children. My son's school wanted a call in the morning of the absense in liu of a note. (Remember the joke about the school official who asked, "Who is this?" and the kid replied, "This is my Mother".)
I have no problem with a child needing a note when he or she is going to school on the bus after being absent. But to require a note when I am telling the staff the excuse is beyond reality.
That's PRINCIPAL!!
I think is has something to do with the fact that if the school continues to fail, time after time, parents will be given the option of transferring the child to another school.
YES!
It's an open school and like one teacher floats between a lot of rooms, or they have a non-teacher staff roaming the rooms.
I was there one day. I had been in my other daughters' classroom, and went to check on the daughter having the problem. Her teacher was holding her in. I sat and waited for the teacher to come back.
While I was waiting, several of the boys were asking me questions about their homework. They didn't know how to do it. I felt really sorry for those kids. I helped as much as I could.
Ron Paige has been at war with the NEA and he's still behind in the battle but four more years of Bush would allow him to pull a bit even.
Of course you shouldn't have to write a note. I thought you meant that the child had to come with a note from home. That is different.
For a second grader that teacher is pretty tough on her. Some second graders are slower in writing because they're perfectionist writers. This is a good trait. To not allow recess is doing the opposite because she now thinks she's being punished for not writing good making her slower with perfection in mind. If this teacher can't reason with logic then maybe the principle should intervene. Recess is a development not just fun and games, although for a kid it is fun.
Time to chat with the principle...don't let a rotten teacher ruin your daughters love of learning or school. Your child needs a break during the day especially the little ones...raise some cain in the principles office, you can even request another homeroom for our daughter...sounds like she needs one with a teacher who'll appreciate her for the skills she does have.
I prefer that educators be responsible to local authorities. When the federal government becomes involved, parents lose their voice.
Technically, your local PTA is not supposed to let nonmembers attend their meetings. I don't know why, but it is in the by-laws. I don't understand why so many schools do not drop the PTA and create their own organizations that keep all membership dues for use at their schools.
Students should not be left in a room without a teacher. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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