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It is complete nonsense to blame teachers and their unions for the state of education in this country. The problem is the demands of the job have changed and no one wants to owe up to who is responsible and therefore there is no solution. 30 years ago, teachers were not expected to parent their students. Does anyone beside me find it odd that teachers have to teach such rudiments of civilized social behavior as pulling your pants up and not swearing at adults? But that is the reality. Teachers have to deal with social decay, which is bad enough, but then to be blamed for it, is beyond the pale. I guess true believers like Riveroll think all teachers should put in 12 hour days to parent parent less children, but then who will take care of the teacher's kids? It is absurd to think teachers should have to do more than teach.— December 15, 2009 2:06 p.m.
The year I taught at Morse Senior High I spent $2000 on school supplies and making copies
I've been teaching for 14 years now, currently at a continuation school in North County, so I think I have a pretty good idea of what it is like to teach in today's classroom. This story was pretty accurate and I think does a good job in relaying how tough it is to teach today's students. Kids today are just a reflection of the broader society, and today's society is so screwed up that it is almost an untenable situation in the schools yet teachers are expected to compensate for years of parental and societal neglect. Witness some of the comments here, as though teachers should be expected now to not only teach effectively but also parent other people's kids. Some teachers do, and in my experience to the detriment of their own family life and sanity. That might explain the high teacher drop out rate and the interestingly high number of kids we get at continuation who's parents are teachers. I think we as teachers do a damn good job given the situation; kids from broken homes, kids from households where the parents have low to no educational skills, transient populations, etc etc etc, issues teachers 30 years ago when US society was much more stable, did not, by and large, have to deal with. So, for all the "educational experts" out there, go sit in a classroom for a week and show us all how it is done instead of sitting in your offices with other adults musing on the "correct" way to teach.— August 21, 2009 7:38 a.m.