User profile: teacher

Ditto on mwh. Imagine what it's like to teach the children of these jerks. Imagine what parent conferences with them are like. They treat teachers the same way. Imagine their kids' classroom behavior. But it's our fault that kids are failing tests?

It's well past time for the government to stop treating the schools as social welfare agencies with teachers who are supposed to behave as surrogates to counter the damage being done to kids and our society by miserable parents - not to mention forcing us to hold our tongues and put up with these people's absurd demands and obnoxious behavior.

It's time to start requiring some minimum behavior standards in exchange for an education. The schools are free-for-all zones. Why? You behave like that in a concert hall and you'll be escorted out. But we put up with anything and everything in our schools. That's a major reason our society is crumbling. Along with the good they do, our schools are doing a lot of damage. Education is expensive; our money shouldn't be squandered on students who have no intention of learning.

If parents can't behave at a school performance, KICK THEM OUT. But the schools won't confront these social thugs. They run amok in the public education system. Unless you're a teacher, you wouldn't believe some of the obnoxious, nasty, abusive behaviors I've had to put up with in parent "conferences" where the parent should have been shown to the door and told to come back when they can behave in a civil manner, or not come back at all. And then these people breed and send their offspring to teachers to be raised, but complain loudly when teachers try to do something about their kids' terrible behavior. This is the society we're growing, and the schools are a big part of why.

God forbid we have any actual standards for students. Let everybody in! This is America; everybody is equal. How dare anyone suggest that maybe some students are more fit for post-high school education than others.

Sorry, forgot, I only spent thirty hours in my classroom last week - between Monday and Wednesday.

It's Monday morning. I haven't read birdie's response posts. I was too busy grading papers on a Sunday, after spending 55 hours in my classroom last week. I really don't have time to respond, or even read the posts. Maybe next summer I'll search this page out and come back. And I don't suppose many people will come back to read this page after today.

But I can tell birdie and anyone else: I actually do the job that I'm commenting on, so I actually know what I'm talking about. If you're going to say (or did say) that there are poor teachers out there, I'll just quickly say a few things things: 1- most poor teachers are driven out by students, who are like a vicious pack when you don't know what you're doing, and even sometimes when you do; 2 - I don't like them either; 3 - you get what you pay for. DUH!

You want better teachers, you actually have to have decent pay and working conditions, which this district does not. It's amazing teachers here are as good as they are, under the circumstances. But it's getting worse, as teachers are falling under more and more blame, and quitting, and going elsewhere.

Bird, why don't you tell us all what you do for a living? Do you think your occupation makes you better than me? I'll tell you what, I have the utmost respect for teachers now, which I never did before I started teaching. I cannot believe what they do, and what they take. But I think they should be way more angry. (The ones who get really angry mostly quit, which is why teaching is left with mostly passive people.)

By the way, you think long-term subs are better than qualified experienced teachers? 'Cause that's what you get when you can't fill jobs, like this district can't. What does that supply and demand tell you, bird?

Let me reinforce one thought: You want better teachers, you'll have to pay for them.

Sorry, bird, but I have a stressful job, where I work well over 40 hours a week. My little "break" is over. Got to go. Don't expect me back for a while. But I look forward to the day I can come back and read your nonsense. With this too-demanding, low-paying "profession" where teachers are beat on for not being able to accomplish the impossible, laughs are one of the only things that keep me waking up in the morning. So it'll be fun to see what bird the education expert has to say about something I do every day.

By the way, birdie, why is it that you write with no capitals, and only ellipses? Could it be that you don't know how to use punctuation and capitalization correctly? What's the matter, you resent teachers because you were a lazy student?