Posted on 06/16/2014 4:22:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
When you’re talking about the inner city, you’re dealing with a population that is either apathetic, or even hostile, to learning. Even if you took good teachers and put them in such an environment, how long before they quit or give up?””
Exactly, I know a couple of people who learned valuable lessons when teaching for less than one year in an African ghetto. Black culture has little regard for education and being from the left-side of the bell curve makes it tougher. All one has to do is look at every city and country dominated by Africans. The picture is not pretty.
Actually, no. The district doesn't place them there. They end up there because the students are so difficult that teacher turn-over rate is very high. Teachers who get hired there usually can't hack it, and either manage to scramble out to a better school or -- more often -- leave teaching altogether because even working at Starbucks is preferable to being assaulted by a little gangster and learning that no one is going to do anything about it.
So those are the schools with the openings, and those are the schools who will hire anyone they can in hopes that the teacher can just keep the kids in the room for 55 minutes and nothing gets set on fire. If you think I'm kidding, be aware that I am a LAUSD teacher, and I've seen it.
I mean, yes, there are bad teachers (or rather, there are teachers who would have been fine in a classroom in Iowa 70 years ago when children had manners, parents had responsibility and control, and the principal had a big wooden paddle,) but they can't manage a classroom full of entitled minority students with crippled home-lives, no discipline, and carte blanche to do anything they want.
Not to mention that kids today all seem to have PSPs, smartphones, iPods, and are utterly addicted to them. They don’t read, they talk, or listen to music, or watch videos (horrible ones, generally.) Their heads are full of junk and junk is all they like. Even kids on foodstamps have these expensive toys (easier to buy when the government is paying for all your food.)
Trouble is, she made little money at it. The agency for which she worked had arcane rules on mileage reimbursement such as going directly to a client in a neighboring county was considered "commuting" and not reimbursable, whereas a five mile drive over to the next client was.
After a few months she landed a job at a nearby juvenile lock-up, better hourly wage, less time on the road and decent benefits. She loved the job and enjoyed seeing results when her charges were mostly runaways, teenage prostitutes and the like. The facility had such a low recidivism rate that they eventually went out of the area to keep it filled. Of course, that meant getting gang bangers and the like in from Philadelphia. As that happened, she begin to fear for her personal safety.
Eventually, she discovered that she could make more money with her degree at a call center doing customer service support, not that it has a lot to do with a social work degree, but because they wanted a college degree.
I'm pretty good at handling children but we have an autistic boy who is bigger than me and apparently has some violent "needs" sometimes. I warned my principal (who is a nice guy but a little too mellow about such things) that if that kid ever hits me, I'm getting a lawyer. I'm hoping he won't be in my classroom next year.
The primary way this ruling will be used will be to fire the 'ideologically impure' first. In a sane world, you'd expect to see layoffs for incompetence, but when was the last time you noticed a surplus of sanity in acedemia?
Yeah, the “many” struck me as funny.
Why are not ALL democrats prioritizing the rebuilding of black families over the interests of teachers’ unions?
Yeah, we knew ‘dat.
Well, sometimes they do things for reasons other than money, of course.
Vengeance, for instance. Envy. Hatred, most frequently.
Sometimes just sheer spite.
Could be both - the leftist politicians know that they need campaign contributions in order to get elected in order to have the power to cut the successful off at the knees.
Good point.
They are Equal Opportunity Destroyers.
Democrats - never good with math - have FINALLY figured out there are more people with children than there are teachers' with their greedy hands out...
Tea Party's been pushing Charter Schools and Vouchers... guess some young parents are staring to hear us. Bye-bye democrats...
Blacks and immigrants will still vote 80% for the Democrat Party.
Exhibit One:
Detroit and East St. Louis.
Many of these kids are in a horrid home and community environment which is hostile to education. Replacing a teacher is not going to help them nearly as much as addressing the home environment, the anti-education culture, and the social promotion practices of the lower primary grades.
...of course this is true, and it is the only thing that holds back the verbal tirades I used to unleash on teachers that I came across...it would have been well if I hadn’t run my mouth so much at one time, but, well, that’s that...
...my only teaching experience was Catholic CCD, which I did for two years, and gladly quit...naturally, I did it for free, but even if I’d been remunerated, I’d have left...other people’s sassy children hold no charm for me...all that being said, I believe every parishioner in a modern Catholic church should be required to do a two year stint in CCD...it would open some eyes...
Some place can do 1/4 or 1/3.
Try for 3/8 and you’ll GET 1/2.
I can get it for you wholesale...
Not that it matters to the rats as long as the vote rat party
Wasn't that why the Dems pushed so hard for "motor voter"? A lot of states give them driver licenses and magically they're on the voter rolls....
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