I've reviewed my post, to try to see where I said there were no bad teachers, and it just isn't there.
I've gone through, line by line, to try to find the point at which I said it was all the public's fault, and have yet to find it.
Your hospital has problems, and everyone jumps in to fix it. Wonderful. Good on you. That's a great thing to do. Kudos to you and all the wonderful people you worked with.
But in many cases, the teachers who try to move things in the right direction run headlong into the very resistance you describe. You want the good ones to walk out? Be careful what you wish for, because when the good ones walk, what you're left with will be the ones you don't want, but can't get rid of because of state employment guidellnes.
I didn't start teaching out of need for a job. I retired from one, and walked away from another fairly good one because I saw a need in local schools that I could fill. Not by bitching about things that other people weren't doing, but by getting into the trenches.
Inside, I see the inertia, the institutionalization, and the party-line mentality you're talking about. I and my like-minded colleagues have worked agaisnt it here. We could raise the banner, march forth, and demand change. And next year, the rest of the faculty would wonder why we didn't come back.
If you really want to make a difference, don't go to the teachers. Don't go to the administrators. Go to the school districts, who DO make the decisions. I believe that IS in my post.
And I've never given anyone a "holier than thou" look when they complained about the quality of the material. But then, that just goes to the broad generalization you use to justify every comment you make.
Way off thread now, no point in going further in trying to open a closed mind.
You don’t want me to consider you part of the problem, but if I suggest you and the other Conservative teachers need to take a public stand, you tell me I’m all wet.
Okay, in your mind it’s not fair for me to group you all together. So who is taking a public stand on this? Well, nobody. 100% of the teachers accept the materials given, the programs implemented, the propaganda presented, and do nothing about it.
You mention that some teachers don’t use the assigned books, and use outside materials to teach their children decent things. What seems to escape you is that there are many teachers out there who use the prescribe materials. And for some reason, the abuse leveled on those kids is okay with you. It is reasonable to you that those kids get shafted. Hey, you’re doing what you can right?
You should know better than anyone what outrageous things are taking place in our schools. Do you object loudly in public? Why no, you allow it to continue. It may not be continuing in your room, put you satisfy yourself that it really doesn’t matter, if it happens in a lot of other rooms.
And you don’t consider yourself part of the problem? Good grief, where do you folks get your moral thinking caps?