sabre1 -> RE: workplace rudeness (5/31/2008 5:54:59 AM)
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ORIGINAL: sabre1 Panzers, I agree with your point. I teach in alternative special education. Children today have a sense of entitlement that is beyond my comprehension. I could site hundreds of examples that are horrifying. At 54 years of age I feel like I need to find a place in Nebraska, hunker down and wait for the end. I forgot to mention I teach near the border in California. Alternative Education is a misnomer for Future Prisoners of America. Saying that I teach in a zoo is an unfair comparison for the animals in the zoo... Each year it grows worse. Each year as a teacher you become a little more fearful for your safety. It's *that* bad huh? Scary really. It's that bad. Yesterday we had a student stab another in the throat (off campus thankfully) because he disrespected him and his gang. That term "disrespected" sickens me, I hear it constantly. It's about the only "big" word in these morons vocabulary. The population that I teach is the lowest of the low. I need to go back to teaching kindergarten through third grade. This job makes you apathetic and cynical. Yes a majority of these students are illegal aliens, or their parents are. it is something that is just not talked about, at least if you want to keep your job, and I do need my job. I am the only caucasion in the classroom. At lunch the staff all speak in Spanish. Obviously I don't eat with the staff. I have a different perspective on teaching, I was a farmer from birth until forty years of age. Government regulations slowly drove our family out of farming. We had been farming since our family immigrated here from Switzerland in the early 1900's. I swtiched to teaching and enjoyed it for the previous ten years, but now it is just a job and paycheck. I'm not teaching at school, I'm holding the animals until they turn 18 years of age and the district no longer gets ADA funds, which is all they care about anyway. Sorry for the rant, I'm pretty disgusted with the whole educational system. It could be fixed, but the methods would have to be draconian in nature, and that is just not going to happen in our current political morass. NCLB (No child left behind) is not the answser. I apologize for the rant. It was a particularly tough day. Seventy students with one certificated teacher (me), and one substitutute who was to inexperienced to deal with classroom behaviors. We were short staffed today. Oh, and we rarely get substitute teachers at our site. No one wants to work there. In case your wondering why I took the job in the first place, I was assured at the interview that we had a high degree of help and control within the classroom having probation officers, etc. on call. This turned out to be false and misleading. They need certificated staff. Like I said before, I could give one horrifying story after another. On the positive side, I have learned how to manage and maintain control of my class. It has made me learn how to cope with stressful situations that I previously thought I would be incapable of handling. That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger, yeah right... Thanks for your patience.
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