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What is the gist of this article? I don’t like clicking links. This isn’t compelling enough to make me want to click it.
The fix is to end federal and leftist control of schools.
The gist? Public education is a giant waste of money and an abject failure.
Abdiel Natividad, an OHS junior who had Cowan as his teacher last year, said she was a great teacher and someone, “you just couldn’t help but love.” He said as a student he noticed Cowan doing a lot, especially when former English teacher Jena Marie Graves resigned last April and Cowan added Graves’ students to her classroom.
Graves was indicted in May on a felony theft following a negative balance of more than $6,500 from the Bronchettes activity fund. The loss of Graves as a teacher led to Cowan teaching several classes that often had 50 plus students. Cowan said she had a teaching assistant but the majority of the self-inflicted work fell to her because she wanted to make sure no student fell between the cracks in Graves’ loss.
Interesting school.
The “gist” of this article is too many federal noses in state and local decision-making regarding education! To h*ll with No Child Left Behind and Annual Yearly Progress. Educational administration says, “Do not teach to the test”; however, out of the “other side of their mouth”, teachers must teach to the test. I AM CALLED to be a teacher! I teach 7th graders about mathematics!! Yes, I work an 8-hour day at school. I also work 2+ hours each day and on weekends AT HOME! Thank goodness for the 3-day weekends throughout the year and definitely I am grateful for the 10-day Christmas break and the 8-9 weeks off each summer!
I NEED that time to rejuvenate and prepare for a new school year - not to mention the summer weeks are when I get most of my hours in for recertification!! (When else would I have time to go to classes and/or conferences? I am CERTAINLY NOT going to miss a week of teaching to get in those required hours!!)
I'm with you...didn't bother to click it. But it sounds like an article about a superstar teacher put upon by evil Tea Party conservatives forcing her to quit her lifelong dream career.
something about new software and having to enter student data and lessons into it.
She came off as whiny - but the whole software thing does sound like a waste of time.
The problems with our schools have nothing to do with whether or not kid’s info is accessible on the computer.
I think “progressive” educators love to brag about how tech-savvy they’ve become....but in the end it’s a crock.
Lots of testimonials at the site for this teacher. Too bad you won’t see them...