When did teachers become the problem? When did teachers become the scapegoat? When did the teachers become the bane of our existence?
As with all professions, there are good and bad and mediocre teachers.
Suddenly, though, all teachers have become this greedy ill-motivated beings, who care less about educating our youth, and more about bigger salaries and retirements.
Wait. We are talking about teachers? In our country?
What?
Maybe I've been living in my little naive world. A world where all the teachers I have ever met have wanted to do the best job as humanly possible.
A world where all conversations I've ever had with teachers consisted of discussing what they are doing to get kids to learn and to make the experience interesting and fun, and all the red tape that was stopping them from doing this.
Talks about all the parents who were standing in the way of the education of the youth.
I dont recall ever discussing how much more money they can get. Or health care.
When our kids hear us undermining teachers as a whole, it diminishes their level of respect and their ability to learn from such teachers.
How do you learn when your parents are telling you how little the teachers care about you? How do you sit in the classroom and not feel and intense confusion, indignation, disappointment?
We need to give teachers all the tools they need to educate our youth. Not shackle them to test scores. Not require all sorts of things that teachers have vociferously denounced.
Why are we pitting teachers against each other?
Why are we pitting teachers against parents?
In all cases our kids are losing.
To conduct this fight in this way shows a disrespect for our youth.
When are we going to stand up against this? When are we going to step into the lives of our youth?
And start acting like role models instead of juvenile delinquents.
As with all professions, there are good and bad and mediocre teachers.
Suddenly, though, all teachers have become this greedy ill-motivated beings, who care less about educating our youth, and more about bigger salaries and retirements.
Wait. We are talking about teachers? In our country?
What?
Maybe I've been living in my little naive world. A world where all the teachers I have ever met have wanted to do the best job as humanly possible.
A world where all conversations I've ever had with teachers consisted of discussing what they are doing to get kids to learn and to make the experience interesting and fun, and all the red tape that was stopping them from doing this.
Talks about all the parents who were standing in the way of the education of the youth.
I dont recall ever discussing how much more money they can get. Or health care.
When our kids hear us undermining teachers as a whole, it diminishes their level of respect and their ability to learn from such teachers.
How do you learn when your parents are telling you how little the teachers care about you? How do you sit in the classroom and not feel and intense confusion, indignation, disappointment?
We need to give teachers all the tools they need to educate our youth. Not shackle them to test scores. Not require all sorts of things that teachers have vociferously denounced.
Why are we pitting teachers against each other?
Why are we pitting teachers against parents?
In all cases our kids are losing.
To conduct this fight in this way shows a disrespect for our youth.
When are we going to stand up against this? When are we going to step into the lives of our youth?
And start acting like role models instead of juvenile delinquents.
