tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14574549.post7299483319637553733..comments2023-09-26T07:09:30.134-05:00Comments on Brooke and Michael: I Need to VentBrookehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658970201031150831noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14574549.post-18888207291392849432007-10-22T15:38:00.000-05:002007-10-22T15:38:00.000-05:00Uggghhh. So annoying. This is one of the reasons...Uggghhh. So annoying. This is one of the reasons I'm happy to not be using my teaching certificate. I'm so glad there is an end in sight for you, but the system needs to be changed!Mirandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16150696288412931265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14574549.post-5337826781053642952007-10-18T20:41:00.000-05:002007-10-18T20:41:00.000-05:00OK MY TURN!!! I am so glad to stay home now too. ...OK MY TURN!!! I am so glad to stay home now too. Last year our school was getting into this, and being a special ed teacher... i tis very hard to tell a reg. ed teacher that they have to take certain kids back without any services anymore. Mostly it is hard because I knew the kids still needed the help. How can we just throw them back in reg. ed. when they are not ready. They are just going to get farther behind... not magically catch up. I felt sorry for the teachers, but more so for the kids. I felt like we were just saying "we know you will fail, but the law says..." Poor kids, they get so frustrated and loose all self esteem. I think drop out is going to go way up after a few years. Anyway, I agree, those people need to just listen to the teachers that are actually doing the job.Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10447299790190310681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14574549.post-28399421535426954842007-10-17T21:25:00.000-05:002007-10-17T21:25:00.000-05:00If I may be so bold, I think the path toward this ...If I may be so bold, I think the path toward this nation-wide stupidity began in the early '70's. It was at that time that America began over-reacting in matters of "rights". Because we feared offending liberals...because they were adept at putting down those who tried to maintain standards.<BR/><BR/>The result is young, talented teachers who can't wait to bail out of the system. And older, talented teachers who opt for a career change. The trend is that those who replace them will be less talented and less dedicated. More and more replacements are immigrants from west Africa and India. Their communication skills are extremely suspect, and their understanding of American culture is deficient.<BR/><BR/>The losers are students, who now are pushed toward impossible goals by teachers who are no longer our "best and brightest".<BR/><BR/>I am so glad I survived 36 years of idiocy with my intellect intact (subject to argument from my family). I am also so glad that my daughter, a dedicated and brilliant teacher, has only a smattering of days left in her teaching career.<BR/><BR/>How sad.Tim Perkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857824702421873032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14574549.post-68007792940087720962007-10-17T08:38:00.000-05:002007-10-17T08:38:00.000-05:00Girls you are not the only ones that hate that law...Girls you are not the only ones that hate that law. It is stupid. My neices have had a rough couple of years and have been left to my parents to raise. Because of the law they can't recieve sped services yet they are in grades that cannot function in because they have already failed 2 times due to circumstance in their lives. But because of NCLB they are stuck to struggle through in the higher grades without much help from the school. My parents are doing everything they can to help these girls now that they are raising them.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to rant, but I hate that law.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02679309069365072825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14574549.post-2285021448254084892007-10-17T08:19:00.000-05:002007-10-17T08:19:00.000-05:00Amen girls! We talk about this quite a bit around...Amen girls! We talk about this quite a bit around my house. It is one of the big reasons why I left teaching too. NCLB is ridiculous!Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351112636504261704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14574549.post-28163767709521421132007-10-16T21:45:00.000-05:002007-10-16T21:45:00.000-05:00It is terrible. Jake - a teacher as well -and I a...It is terrible. Jake - a teacher as well -and I always talk about how terrible that law is. It is unreal to me these people we put in office can't see that we all can't work at the same level and that is okay. We are all made differently and have different needs. Can you imagine if that did this in sports!!Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07576826934137159859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14574549.post-36252615107053747462007-10-16T19:48:00.000-05:002007-10-16T19:48:00.000-05:00I hear ya'! It's so funny that you wrote this beca...I hear ya'! It's so funny that you wrote this because I went to bed angry at the world last night due to the same frustrations! Because of these stupid new "resource" policies, I've basically given up. It sounds so wrong, but all the teachers at my school want these kids to fail so that the state will see that they need help!! <BR/>Even scarier, I've heard the word "strike" mentioned a few times.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04482199799359473031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14574549.post-77848186353381264662007-10-16T19:25:00.000-05:002007-10-16T19:25:00.000-05:00It just breaks my heart to hear so many teachers b...It just breaks my heart to hear so many teachers being fed up with the system (not teaching) I don't understand why no one is listening to the most important profession we have. Where would any of us be without teachers? Seems like they would know that you all know your business much better than the rest of us and they would just listen and make the changes necessary to benefit you and the kids the most.<BR/>I just don't get it.Lynn Leaminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17487096791088042955noreply@blogger.com