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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
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.
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Exactly the problem I was talking about. The affects that that can have on a child is huge. Having a teacher like that at that age is exactly what turned my schooling into an absolute chore. You ruin a kids desire to learn that young and it's just a brutal uphill battle from there.
I don't like the crap that teachers get. "Oh, they get all summer off, their jobs are easy!" Yeah well guys that put in sewer lines get all winter off, is that job easy too? Teaching isn't easy. But I hate the notion that they're above criticism just because it's hard and they have to deal with kids.