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Home : 2001 : Sep : 27
You know, it is so sad to read the frustration that others feel. I feel similar frustrations where I am teaching too. This really seems to be a nation-wide (and maybe beyond that) problem. What can we do? Teachers, essentially, are underpaid, disrespected by many students and many parents, and overworked. Some schools and situations here and there aren't like that, but for the most part it sounds as if that statement is accurate! I sometimes think that the main problem is that we are starting to push kids too hard too early. If they show a glimmer of being able to write a complete sentence in first grade, instead of rejoicing, we expect a complete paragraph. My principal even says to set your expectations too high so that when the students fall short they will be where they "should be," and if they don't fall short then they will be that much ahead of where they shoud be. So basically she is telling us to push, push, push until the students fail. And then, on top of it all, they begin to take planning time away because they are cramming so much into one day, or they need to have so many meetings, or whatever. I am normally NOT a negative person, but I am frustrated because I KNOW I am not the only one to feel this way. I wish teachers could go to work like everyone else and have a few problems ONCE IN A WHILE, but for the most part feel like they have the resources they need to do the job that is expected of them. One of those resources IS planning time. Hang in there. We are all together in this!
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