Subject: Re: Thursday Chat 04.22.10 by teebee on 2010/4/22 15:57:33
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Vetron87 wrote: Gold Watch??? Probably leaky water bottle! or Coffee Mug. Oops! starting to rant! I'll probably still retire!! F***em!!!
You and teebee will always be indispensable. Next year it would be somethiing else. Stay if you want to stay. If not, let them transfer the kids to a basket weaving class. The education system today, in my opinion, has lost it's focus. It's not the teachers, they have to roll with the changes. Kids have to learn marketable skills. I'm sure they could find another candidate. It just would not be another you.
There is no focus/the academic wing teaches for a standardized test the students take in the spring. Next week it will be another crisis! still little Johnnie can't read. The focus seems to be drifting away from kids and more about what the educational elite think should be taught. Ranting again!!!
Ok, I'll jump in here about now, been busy this morning. I'll start off by saying that we actually interviewed a guy for my position yesterday. Really surprised me that there was someone willing to come out here....but I guess he is actually a graduate of our school here (before I came). He's not sure that he wants to leave where he is (tenure and a very secure position) to an unknown situation. I hope he takes the job as I hate to see the program die.
Now I will jump in and agree 100% with Ron on the direction that education is headed. In every education class I ever took, they were adamant about 'teaching to tests'.....never ever do it. But with the emphasis toward "Adequate yearly progress" (IE: read State Standardized testing), so everyone teaches directly to the test. Completely a 180* off what all the education classes told us. (gee, what's wrong with this picture). Bush's "No Child Left Behind" is a farce, and will make every school in the country a failure or excellent (at cheating-lying). NCLB sets standards that are eventually, absolutely, impossible to attain. And anyone who thinks otherwise is either an idiot or like an ostrich with their head buried in the sand.
Sorry, I'll turn the rant off now.
Ron, you have to make the decision that fits you. I know exactly the position you're in. Ready to get away from education, but hating to see the program close.
