Issues like this are difficult. My grandmother, in her last years, would call me drunk and I would just hold the phone and say yes once in...
We went from six to four years ago but the four is more like 8 now because of the mid-term grade we have to give that goes home just like the...
That really makes no sense. I have heard it before. You are assuming an 8 or 10 or even 15 year old thinks like an adult. Most of them do not....
[MEDIA] maybe this is the whole answer to our problems...........
A great Christmas day but the food and fresh squeezed OJ (and partaking too late ) has my acid reflux send me to the chair. So I read this whole...
And that is just for the teachers............
I have taught in public schools for 40 years. I have taught hundreds of black children. I now teach many of their children. Rural south. I...
The short answer is yes. Some people are not emotionally equipped to deal with all the stuff some of these poor kids bring to school. I learned a...
I tell you what. After teaching 40 years the least of my worries are parents with panties in a wad or the sensitivity of an 8 year old that...
I frequently tell kids that I bet their parents use lots of tylenol. One parent called my principal and said the kid came home and told her I...
And that is the 1000000 dollar question society has come to believe in most cases. Maybe, just maybe, it is just nature. Maybe we cannot fix all...
On Wed. this very quiet little girl who's brother is one of my best kids (he is very quiet too). She hugged me goodbye. Took me by surprise....
Ive been posting and observing here for a LONG time. Political discussions are not allowed. Getting down and dirty here does not fly either. It...
I call it a defense mechanism. You gotta leave a little sanity outside the door to make it as a teacher.
so you are saying some teachers are not in their right minds? ;)
what person in their right mind can spend all that money in college (in Fla) to go teach at a salary (most smaller rural counties) than any other...
Being paid more than a corrections officer (starting salaries) who has no college at all and has insurance that is $500 less a month than mine....
Is this a private school? If not it sounds horrible.
But there is $$$ to be made. Profit above all else.
Come to Fla. Most of our problems originate in Tallacrappy. Morons making policy. Ive been teaching in Fla since the 70s. They are determined...
