The hardest thing about being a first year teacher isn't knowing the class materials, or spending your nights and weekends planning lessons which you hope your students will pay attention to
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I didn't know you were teaching now. That's fantastic - it just sucks that the kids and parents don't care. That's a major downer. Are you in public or private schooling and what age range are you teaching?
still around... I just didn't realize how long it had been since I've posted!
I'm teaching middle school math, 7th grade, public school. The school system infrastructure sucks (we're going to lose our accreditation: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/clayton/index.html), but the technology they supply us with is great.
As are most of the kids. But as a fellow teacher pointed out, if you make three phone calls home, and the child's behavior doesn't change, then the parents are allowing disrespect and disobedience on the part of their kids.
It is the realization that today's kids just.don't.care. And neither do their parents.
Yep. That and the prevalence and acceptance of cheating were what shocked me most when I taught high school for a year. Well that, and how stupid most of the kids were, and how proud of it they were.
I tell my kids the choice is theirs; they can choose to learn or they can choose to be ignorant.
I won't ever call them ignorant, or stupid. But I do tell them that being ignorant or stupid is their own decision.
As for the cheating? I don't tell them that I give out different versions of a test until the first 9 week period is over. By that time, the cheaters have been found out, and consequences received.
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I didn't know you were teaching now. That's fantastic - it just sucks that the kids and parents don't care. That's a major downer. Are you in public or private schooling and what age range are you teaching?
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I'm teaching middle school math, 7th grade, public school. The school system infrastructure sucks (we're going to lose our accreditation: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/clayton/index.html), but the technology they supply us with is great.
As are most of the kids. But as a fellow teacher pointed out, if you make three phone calls home, and the child's behavior doesn't change, then the parents are allowing disrespect and disobedience on the part of their kids.
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Yep. That and the prevalence and acceptance of cheating were what shocked me most when I taught high school for a year. Well that, and how stupid most of the kids were, and how proud of it they were.
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I won't ever call them ignorant, or stupid. But I do tell them that being ignorant or stupid is their own decision.
As for the cheating? I don't tell them that I give out different versions of a test until the first 9 week period is over. By that time, the cheaters have been found out, and consequences received.
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