Good job.
Are you outnumbered in your school?
Bravo to you!
My younger brother just got his first teaching job a couple of months ago in FL. He is Mr. Conservative, traditional Catholic, and a genius (well, we like to think so, lol). FWIW he also conducted a homeschooling band for a couple of years while in grad school, although he teaches public school now.
I have a couple of cousins who teach school, and the wife of one of them is a teacher. My brother-in-law teaches high school. The wife of another cousin teaches in NJ. Public school teachers all.
My aunt (mom's sister-in-law) teaches Catholic school and has for many years.
I have homeschooled (so no one can label me an anti-homeschool crackpot), but we put our 8 y.o. in Catholic school this year, and we couldn't be more pleased. I am astounded at the amount of dedication these men and women show for the amount of pay they get (they are paid a lot less than their public school counterparts).
Instead of degrading teachers as a profession and tearing down the good ones out there, I wish we could see more praise of those who really do their part despite the system. I guess it's easier to sit and complain and point fingers though...
Heh. My mom teaches fifth grade, and I swear she has ever single one of those posters in her room. And then some. If we weren't in Texas she would've been fired by now.
If you're anything like her, you work sixty hours a week as an unofficial nurse, babysitter, and surrogate parent for crap pay and zero respect.
Obviously, she should quit. She should quit laying the groundwork so that these children will be better able to think for themselves as they spend the next ten years being indoctrinated and dumbed down. She should quit trying to instill patriotism and personal responsibility in children who won't get it anywhere else. As everyone knows, they would clearly be better off at home watching The View.
Of course, she's a functionally illiterate enabler, so what does she know?
The system is broken, the unions are out of control, and the bureaucracy making all the decisions have never stepped foot in a classroom.
There are a lot of shitty teachers out there because that is what the system is attracting and cultivating. But there are also a lot of truly good ones who get denigrated along with them and keep doing it anyway.
After reading threads like this, I don't know what they hell they're thinking.
What are those wires on the walls connected to?
Your kids are doing a good thing for the Gitmo soldiers.
There are many fine teachers in our public schools. I like the posters in yours!
I like that.