Wednesday, December 18, 2013
How can they blame the teachers? ... Submitted by a retired educator
How can the teachers of New Bedford be blamed for the curriculum which the superintendent has decided does not work? If I recall, we had curriculum coordinators who were paid "big bucks" to decide the elementary and secondary curriculum. Teachers never got to dictate what the curriculum would be....but now it's their fault that the school system is falling apart. I think every former superintendent, administrator, and supervisor should step up and accept blame for this mess.
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They will never accept responsibility for their decisions. Every single one should run for political office. Politicians (the mayor) always place blame else where, administration -same scenario. Administration gets paid the big bucks, I have always believed that politicians (administration) and diapers should be changed often, for the same reasons-they are full of it!
I teach in this craziness but will soon be leaving. Thanks for the post, I appreciate it. The teachers are supposed to clean up the mess that the politicians making the big dollars made. Typical in this city to blame the teachers. I've had enough.
Let's put some, maybe most of the blame, where it belongs. Many students have no interest in any curriculum - period! Many parents put their needs before their children's needs and they show little interest in encouraging their children to succeed in school. Until you fix this, you won't fix anything.
You can't fix anything until uninterested students and their parents who offer them little encouragement to achieve in school... are fixed.
I am so sadden by this news and waiting for the next ax to fall. Time to call the retirement association and look for another career, or maybe a job that I can actually have a personal life with. I'll save on stress related co-pays, as well!
"Who Moved My Cheese?"
This is our reality and something we have no control over. Yet, in the classroom, we do all that we can. Within the community, Mitchell should be doing all that he can. He chooses to ignore the underlying issues with the hope that his false idol, Pia, will fix the problem for him.
The majority of students that attend urban schools are from minority families who live below the poverty line. Most often they are from single-parent families where the parent is usually holding more then one job to support the family and so little attention is given to the child. Many students have very few positive role models. Several of their parents have drug or alcohol addictions, are verbally abusive, neglectful and or are school dropouts themselves. Many urban children are also deprived of food on a daily basis and come to school hungry. These children also lack proper health care (Lee, 1999). In addition, the child’s safety is compromised by living in crime-infested neighborhoods filled with violence. Due to the lack of the child’s basic needs being met, more children who attend urban schools start school with a major disadvantage. Whereas, students of suburban schools, with their basic needs already have been met, are able to focus on learning and satisfying their growth needs. Many urban students are less concerned with learning and achieving a positive self-image then they are about obtaining food or safety. This has a large and lasting affect on their student achievement.
The principals don't seem to be supporting their staff. They haven't even kept their school websites up to date. Also, "best practices" have always been changing with the political tide. Teachers are forced to continuously keep changing with the times and whims of "expert consultants" yet the teachers are literally first on the firing line? This is unconscionable. My two cents...retired teacher.
Retired Teacher....be thankful that you are retired. Many of us are barely hanging on. Thanks for the support.
I work at Parker school, this principal is a bigger joke than the last principal! She doesn't run the school, the disrespectful, entitled kids now run the school!
They blame the teachers because it's the easy way out. The big wigs are afraid to confront the parents and the administration is afraid of the disruptive kids. I'm working for a principal who lets the disruptive students walk around with her all day passing out papers, buzzing people into the building, and sitting in the office getting into everyone's private business. I'd want to get in trouble, too if it got me out of the classroom and schoolwork all day! Meanwhile these kids aren't getting an education.
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Oh, and this is one hired by Dr. Durkin.
Did I just read that the city bought new police cars? We don't have money for a reading series, science or social studies books, math books, technology in our classrooms, or classroom supplies. I'm done buying my own supplies for my classroom. Guess I'll start calling the SC and haunt them for the tools I need to run my classroom.
A national search for a superintendent and this was the best they could come up with? A throw away from Attleboro. Big failure on that search committee.
My principal does the same thing not hired by during.
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