KimberlyH
Ideal_Rock
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I worked in corporate America for approximately 10 years returned to school to earn my MEd, substituted while in school, graduated, then worked a temporary part time teaching position and am now temporarily home with my daughter. All together I spent about 3 years working in the education field. In any of the jobs I held if I had felt free to spew in the same fashion as this teacher did I would expect and feel I deserved some sort of reprimand from my employer. The internet has allowed many people a platform upon which they air way too much of their proverbial dirty laundry. This woman was not attempting to have an honest dialogue about education, she was complaining.
As for the subject of education itself, there's plenty of blame to go around. In my short time in the field I experienced frustration with administration and the feeling of being hung out to dry, questionable teachers, apathetic students, and parents that left me in tears for both myself and their children and their polar opposites. I worked in an afluent district with a great reputation at one of the three "poor" schools. I had children in the foster care system, 10 year old girls who spoke dreamily of turning 16 and having babies, families who lived without running water, and so on. The location didn't change their poverty, literal and figurative, and none of the negativity from those children who needed so much more than I could do to the administrative struggles I faced made my choice to teach any less my choice. No martyr badge necessary, I felt honored to go to work. I also don't see more money solving the multi-faceted problem, my state spends 60% of its large budget on education, it's how the money is spent that makes no sense, in my opinion. I look forward to returning to a classroom one day and doing my miniscule part to help.
As for the subject of education itself, there's plenty of blame to go around. In my short time in the field I experienced frustration with administration and the feeling of being hung out to dry, questionable teachers, apathetic students, and parents that left me in tears for both myself and their children and their polar opposites. I worked in an afluent district with a great reputation at one of the three "poor" schools. I had children in the foster care system, 10 year old girls who spoke dreamily of turning 16 and having babies, families who lived without running water, and so on. The location didn't change their poverty, literal and figurative, and none of the negativity from those children who needed so much more than I could do to the administrative struggles I faced made my choice to teach any less my choice. No martyr badge necessary, I felt honored to go to work. I also don't see more money solving the multi-faceted problem, my state spends 60% of its large budget on education, it's how the money is spent that makes no sense, in my opinion. I look forward to returning to a classroom one day and doing my miniscule part to help.