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In reply to the discussion: A TEACHER STORY: WHY I’M LEAVING PUBLIC EDUCATION [View all]Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)19. This story is heartbreaking.
I trained as a teacher. That is what my degree is in. I do not teach. But this woman was obviously an incredible, caring teacher. She would have always done a good job with her students. And to see what she was up against just overwhelms me.
They make all these teachers, who are trained PROFESSIONALS, feel as if they are interns throughout there whole career. Why they require so much education and testing before you can teach is beyond me when they refuse to allow them to use the education they have. They tell them every detail of what they have to do....there is a time they will think they can put minimum wage workers in the teacher's seat.
Yep, no child left behind.
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I truly understand. It's tiring, depressing, and dangerous to one's career to dream about what
jody
Jan 2012
#2
"Standardized schools = standardized education" or teaching to the lowest standard so all can
jody
Jan 2012
#8
I think charters are both good and evil, like typical public schooling systems.
boppers
Jan 2012
#39
If illiteracy is a disease, how effective is the doctor at treating a wide variety of patients?
boppers
Jan 2012
#48
Those educators who conceived the concept of charter schools later pulled their support
proud2BlibKansan
Jan 2012
#37
Some did, some did not and actually success rates is the subject of raging debate which resembles
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2012
#41
Thanks for bringing this here. And Sarah, every time I hear some idiot spouting off...
prairierose
Jan 2012
#4
I just got my Masters in Teaching from Michigan State and I have no job in site.
terip64
Jan 2012
#12
Please don't leave. The future of the country depends on people like you - and my wife.
HopeHoops
Jan 2012
#13
very interesting and not surprising, yet amazing. not being a teacher, or in the system
seabeyond
Jan 2012
#42