I was following the Totoro chain and came across your journal... (And I was excited to see The Last Unicorn too!! yippeee) Anyway, I got caught in your school talk. I am currently a high school teacher (though not in Texas) and let me tell you, it is awful all over. I am counting down the weeks before it all ends and I go on to something bearable. I am 25 and this is my first year teaching fulltime, and I don't know who to blame: myself, the kids, their parents, the school system? It's all screwed up. I've found discipline to be the hardest challenge: but also apparently the most important thing. Teaching in itself has to be put on the backburner, and it impossible to make any real progress with students acting the way they do. Then the good students suffer and it's sort of the teacher's fault for not controlling the class. That's part of what I've been up against. Everyone gets away with things, the kids backtalk, manipulate and no one can stop them. Also I see teachers and administrators ignoring their duties or just plain not caring. The priorities don't make anysense. I did care, but have begun not to. It's become a survival tactic. The negativity is too much. Best of luck to your sister... hang in there.
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the downfall of schools
Date: 2001-04-23 07:22 am (UTC)I was following the Totoro chain and came across your journal... (And I was excited to see The Last Unicorn too!! yippeee)
Anyway, I got caught in your school talk. I am currently a high school teacher (though not in Texas) and let me tell you, it is awful all over. I am counting down the weeks before it all ends and I go on to something bearable. I am 25 and this is my first year teaching fulltime, and I don't know who to blame: myself, the kids, their parents, the school system? It's all screwed up. I've found discipline to be the hardest challenge: but also apparently the most important thing. Teaching in itself has to be put on the backburner, and it impossible to make any real progress with students acting the way they do. Then the good students suffer and it's sort of the teacher's fault for not controlling the class. That's part of what I've been up against. Everyone gets away with things, the kids backtalk, manipulate and no one can stop them. Also I see teachers and administrators ignoring their duties or just plain not caring. The priorities don't make anysense. I did care, but have begun not to. It's become a survival tactic. The negativity is too much. Best of luck to your sister... hang in there.