tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7963481615689448946..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Academic DysfunctionStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7679880087366926102019-07-10T07:02:02.906-07:002019-07-10T07:02:02.906-07:00Stuart, STOP using the term "Democratic"...Stuart, STOP using the term "Democratic" to describe rotten. corrupt DEMOCRAT politicians.<br /><br />And its an unnecessary redundancy to use both "teachers'unions" and DEMOCRAT politicians, they are one and the same! At the last Democrat National Convention, teachers' union members constituted more than 25% of the delegates!R Deverehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04516470436760924297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-64999182704322954852019-07-08T13:52:18.920-07:002019-07-08T13:52:18.920-07:00P.S. Forgve the typos (boy, it is full of them! It...P.S. Forgve the typos (boy, it is full of them! It all came out in a rush, and I hit "send" before I proofed, as I didn't want to lose my nerve.) Thank you for printing.vladdynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88879543905363603622019-07-08T13:18:47.281-07:002019-07-08T13:18:47.281-07:00I taught for several years, the worst year in a sc...I taught for several years, the worst year in a school exactly like this. New, young femle principal warned us all NOT taking kids out of class. Once before the state tests, a young male was was always acting up, was doing it before these important tests.I called the office to get him out and was greeted with, "Oh, ____(using my first name in front of class), before it even starts?" (and I thought, yeah, so they won't be interrupted during testing. geez.)<br /><br />Another admin person there when I would try to have someone removed for disruption, would poke her head in, repeat my story and ask the KIDS "Is that what happened?"<br /><br />One day, a kid was so bad that I refused to call another hapless admin. I went to the desk where the cop hangs, by the doorway, and said, "I do not want an admiistrator. I want someone with a uniform and a badge~" And I got it...that time.<br /><br />I got to be with my sped kids, who needed special curriculum and environment all day, for 1-2 periods. Other periods, I had to'team" with a teacher who had been there for years, who treated me as an aide and let the kids do all the behaviors you listed earlier. I ended up the last few days of school, asking colleages to take those periods for me; the principal sent them out, got me and said I had to go in. I refused to go in the classrroom where I had been bullied for a year because the other teacher and the admin refused to do discipiine. She fired me. I said no way when the main office called and said she didn't have that privilege and pls come back next year. But I had lost all confidence in myself and that was the beginning of the end.<br /><br />In the room where my husband "teamed," the reg teacher went into her office and gave the class to him. He learned very soon that if you tried to discipline, you would only have parents, admin, and maybe lawyers on you. So he taught 5-7 kids at the front; in the back, the rest of the class played music, danced, and played cards. Think they would have listened if even he, a six-foot male vet, had talked to them? He was wiser and less stubborn than I, so he taught who he could and didn't try to do the impossible, so never got in trouble with admin.<br /><br />Don't complain about teachers or blame "teachers unions." It's admin (who don't deal with effects of the rules they put upon us), the academics who haven't been in a classroom for decades, but keep demanding on their stupid "resarch-based methods," advocates/activists, and parents. <br /><br />It's not "the teachers unions" to blame--it is "the teachers union leaders." We gain nothing. Although we had advanced degrees, they were paying us at BA scale at the school I just wrote about. because we were Ed.S, which is usually for admin. That state wouldn't take it for teachers -- they'd only take just masters, which was a step below, and if our transcripts didn't say "masters" but "specialists"--we got BA pay.)<br /><br />Before that, my husband and I had team-taught in the latte 90s at a trad school where we were allowed to do discipline, and it was nothing like this. We left because they were building new schools and instituting "current" rather than "traditional" methods. (Rewards and consequences are the ony thing that works, but nowdays, not allowed. Just rewards for everybody.)<br /><br />I could tell so many stories but I won't except---my last school as a teacher, I had 3 superivsors who told me not to do discipline, but call them when something happened. I had my first fight, in all those years, in that room, and it was my last teaching job before getting out. (Until we can end gov schools, we MUST get cons/trad people into teaching! New or mid-life...do it.) <br /><br />(Sorry so long--I still have nightmares, yelling "Help me, help me," and you touched a nerve.) PTSDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-66879256930597157412019-07-08T11:10:32.822-07:002019-07-08T11:10:32.822-07:00There's a certain bias inherent in having all ...There's a certain bias inherent in having all children 'educated ' by unionized govt employees in a public institution. Kids learn horrible lessons even if no political words were spoken:<br />- more funding is always the answer<br />- the path to more funding is organized political bullying<br />- the authorities have a monopoly on all knowledge and certification.<br />- freedom of association is not allowed - a main advantage of private schools is that they WILL get rid of disruptive students<br />jfmorishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00958534016660980260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87448360347310566282019-07-08T10:09:54.777-07:002019-07-08T10:09:54.777-07:00Why do they hate the children? Because the ignora...Why do they hate the children? Because the ignorant are easier to deceive.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-6601188089292766172019-07-08T09:43:39.185-07:002019-07-08T09:43:39.185-07:00Public school mission: acquire ever-growing inputs...Public school mission: acquire ever-growing inputs, prohibit measurement of outputs (i.e., more money, testing is raaaaciss).trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-85160146940923319372019-07-08T08:42:15.649-07:002019-07-08T08:42:15.649-07:00More money is always their answer, always; we need...More money is always their answer, always; we need more money. It NEVER changes. More money. It's always a funding issue. That these fools can still say that rubbish with a straight face is just as bad as the sub-literate children they are producing. 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