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Originally Posted by btimbit
I can tell where this thread is going already.
All I'll add is I wish there was a way to hold bad teachers more accountable. I do believe it's a very hard job, and I wish the good teachers weren't so few and far between. I'd probably burn out after a few years of that job, but what I can't understand is why so many teachers keep doing it after they develop such a disdain for children.
The good teachers deserve way more praise than they get. The bad ones, I'd like to see criticized more openly.
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This. My son's K-grade 2 teachers were awesome, we felt really fortunate.
His grade 3 teacher is a whole other story. She's nothing more than a bloviating gasbag, who can talk a big game but it's quite obvious that she lacks the energy to back it up at all. Report cards look copy/pasted to the point where the comments would work for any child. Parent teacher interviews were informal/disorganized to the point of having 10 sets of parents milling around waiting to talk to her. Couldn't get a word in because mother hen clucked with 3-4 moms the whole time. We've gone to her with questions and it's clear she's just interested in empty platitudes and getting home on time. It's been infuriating to be honest, I don't think my son has learned a damned thing this year.