Posted on 07/26/2012 7:16:44 AM PDT by kevcol
Oh trust me, it took a while for me to feel comfortable leaving her! I started out by taking her for a few hours a day, and then I built it up to how long I’d be at work. I told the lady taking care of her it was for my daughter to get used to someone else gradually, but in reality it was for me to get used to my daughter being with someone else too. It took lots of baby steps, but by the grace of God she’s in good hands.
BTW, you’re not being a savage, you’re being a good father and don’t ever apologize for that!!
That is horrible to learn but I appreciate your teaching me that schools today are nothing like we went through. Discipline was enforced because learning can’t happen in a chaotic environment.
I really grieve for the future of America. Your children are the foundation of society to come. If they aren’t raised right, then you can kiss your society good bye. Culture matters.
There is something that I simply do** NOT** understand about teaching as compared to other professions.
For example:
If a hospital had improperly trained personnel and inadequate and substandard equipment, the surgeons and anesthesiologists would **REFUSE** to do surgeries there. Why? Because the conditions are impossible and to practice in these conditions is medical MALPRACTICE!
So?...Why do teachers, day after day, accept IMPOSSIBLE and UNSAFE conditions ( emotionally, physically, sexually, and educationally) for their students. Why do they implement teaching methods that they **KNOW** are ineffective and are MALPRACTICE against their students ( that they claim to love)?
WHERE IS THEIR PROFESSIONALISM?????
Yeah! I am shouting. Where are the attorneys who will sue them into oblivion for MALPRACTICE? Most teachers, principals, and superintendents do have malpractice insurance.
schools today are nothing like we went through.
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Please read my post #63.
Schools are a unsafe and ineffective because teachers ( more than 3 million of them) (UNPROFESSIONALLY) willingly open the doors on these conditions. No one is holding a gun to their heads as **willingly** apply for the job and **eagerly** collect their paychecks, pensions, long vacations, and health care.
CPOretired.
Please read my posts #63 and #64.
I ask myself the same questions all the time. I think some high profile malpractice suits would quickly bring about an attitude adjustment.
We don’t “implement” anything. We have virtually no power. I don’t know what your problem is, but you certainly have one.
You were the ONLY person to respond in a vitriolic manner to my post. You seem to have absolutely no concept how it is for teachers today. You have a definite agenda................DON’T make me your whipping boy!
You are exactly correct, it is not just black kids. The by far looniest kid I have EVER seen ( well really, he was tied w/ another kid) was a white kid who had moved from California to MS. The whole family was out of their minds crazy & when they left mid year we all actually cheered!
I hope your son recovered well, that must have been a horrifying experience.
Actually, he was really good about it. Wasn’t crying or anything, just knew he couldn’t get up! He even reminded me to change his bandages (he had an external fixator instead of a cast) and clean the blood, etc. Tylenol with codeine helped, tho. He’s 18 now and I still have the pins that were in his leg!
If they are this angry today, on full bellies, imagine their actions a few days or weeks after the power goes out for a prolonged period, and the supermarkets, gas stations, ATMs and EBT cards are all empty, looted, or flashing zeroes.
That's an insult to the vast majority of tribes, even "backward" ones. Most value family and eschew pointless violence.
This is the problem:
Other professionals accept among themselves a certain standard of conditions and behavior. They will **not** practice their profession unless those standards are met. If they do and they don't have these minimal standards in place, they are subject to malpractice suits, sanctions from their professional organizations, and loss of their license. For example, would a nurse give blood that wasn't properly labeled and tested?
So?...Why is it that teachers, every day, open their classroom doors on policies, methods, and conditions that are not only ineffective, but harm children, and place children in danger of KNOWN physical, emotional, sexual, and educational harm? No one is holding a gun to the teacher's head when they do this.
Where are the malpractice attorneys and class action suits against the teachers, principals, and superintendents?
Why, when teachers willingly agree to subject children to possible harm, that the public says, “Tsk! Tsk! This teacher is working soooooo hard. Give him the Mother Teresa award, “ when with any other professional they would be demanding the withdraw of his license and pressing the district attorney for criminal charges?
Why, is it when other professionals lie to their patients or clients, lie on official documents, and misuse public money, they are subject to malpractice suits, loss of their license, and prison time, but in the government schools children routinely receive official government high school diplomas they can not read? Who were the teachers and principals who lied and fraudulently allowed this to happen?
Re: “Implementing”
It isn't Howdy Doody agreeing to conditions, policies, and methods that are ineffective, harmful, and dangerous. It is teachers who are agreeing to do this. No one is threatening them with death and there are plenty of other career options open to them. We don't live in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union...( yet).
Again...Please note that every word of the above post is about education in GENERAL and NOT NOT NOT directed at any specific individual.
We don’t “implement” anything. We have virtually no power.
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Teachers, just as all other professionals, have the power to say, “No!”.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed what it is calling a "first-of-its-kind" lawsuit against the state, its Department of Education and one Detroit-area school district for allegedly failing to teach students to read at grade level, as mandated by state law and its constitution.
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For Moss and the ACLU, the situation and the lawsuit have national significance.
"If kids aren't reading, nothing else is going to come," Moss said. "If we're not preparing our children, there is no way our economy can recover."
Wha?......... Some people shouldn’t breed.
Oh, yeah.... I've seen them destroy classrooms, bathrooms, everything they can get their hands on - including the computer that they fought to get time on. The drive to destroy and the anger override everything else.
After it's over, then they might sit and whine that they broke their favorite toy, but for the main part they just think it's funny.
When they are starving, it'll be exponentially worse.
And that is the real reason guns and ammo are flying off the shelf. It’s not that people actually believe in “zombies.”
“Zombies” is a code word for “oh, crap”.
I would love to be able to say no. I would love to call out the misdeeds of the central office ( that IS where the power IS & it is FAR from the teachers). The fact of the matter is I am not independently wealthy and need my job. I do the best job I can under the circumstances, but you are living in a pie in the sky world when you expect people who have no protections or power at their workplace to stand up & lose their job.
you expect people who have no protections or power at their workplace to stand up & lose their job.
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Other professionals are expected to do that, why are teachers special?
The State is not a good parent?
How about “day care is not a good parent”?
Or “day care is not a parent”?
Or “day care is no substitute for actual parenting”?
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