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Originally Posted by Ice
I wasn't trying to offend you or any other teachers. I'm speaking on my own experience as both someone who was in the process of becoming a teacher ( I got the education, I entered the teaching program and I passed the required state exams) and a parent who's dealt with my own children's teachers. My opinion is formed completely on my own experience. I would like to see ingenuity encouraged with teachers, not meeting arbitrary state curiculum and specific scores on standardized tests. I suppose I don't blame the teachers that have lost interest completely, their hands have been tied by beaurocracy and it limits their creativity in the classroom, but it doesn't change the fact that many teachers have, in fact, lost interest in teaching and just go through the motions. Like I said, there are good teachers out there, but it seems there are just as many who aren't.
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One thing that I have learned since my wife has become a teacher is that MOST parents that she deals with have unrealistic expectations of what the TEACHER should do and no expectation of what the parent should do. Parents have abdicated their jobs as the main teacher in their childs life.
It is unfortunate if you have experienced bad teachers. They are out there just like in any other job. But I can give you just as many examples of bad parents as you can give bad teachers. My wife has spent hours and hours out of her own time to help students that are having trouble learning, special learning plans, special reading material. Only to have the parents not commit and nothing ever gets done at home or have the parent complain that they think their child shouldn't be doing this or that. One parent was more worried about the colour of the binder my wife sent home with the child over the actual material in the binder.
If you want to level blame on teachers you need to level just as much on parents if not more blame on them.
PS; This $5 keyboard I purchased is a piece of donkey manure and some keys I have to press really hard for it to work, thus some of the words dont make sense because they are missing some letters.