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.
The system is broken, the unions are out of control, and the bureaucracy making all the decisions have never stepped foot in a classroom.
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Then why is she enabling this dysfunction? Why is she propping it up?
If most teachers quit their jobs they would not be able to find another one with nearly the same level of pay. They have no marketable skills.