I wear many hats. The register I use on Yahoo Answers is not necessarily the same tone as I use in my classroom, nor is it the same way I communicate with my family and friends.

I haven’t found that my students are “afraid” to respond. I’ve found the ‘adolescent creature’ to be pretty communicative. It’s my job to help them shape their utterances to be effective to a wide audience. The message of an “important idea” is lost, when obscured by unclear, ineffective, or faulty transmission. Like it or not, judgments about one’s intelligence and abilities are made when the message is garbled.

Better grammar can’t be encouraged, it has to be taught and consistently reinforced. Impossible to do in this forum.

The assumption can be made (considering any question that was asked) that one is addressing an adult’s question. In a public forum, the communication should be at an adult level and in proper English. Often someone is asking a question regarding their child and, by the question’s tone is obviously meant to bash the teacher, the profession, the schools, or the administration.

I think teachers take offense at the criticism given by an individual who has no right to criticize. Most teachers give their heart and soul to the job and then receive “attitude.” from parents who offer no help.

Anyway, the stresses of doing a thankless job add up and when teachers are criticized by other adults, they may have every right to be defensive.

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The problem lies in first having the proper curriculum and then an adequate record of individual student learning. A good teacher then must first be a good clerk. With these things done the quality of the individual teacher makes a difference.

I’m surprised there aren’t more answers regarding the poor parenting of our students. I know my kids are struggling day after day because of the affects of the things they see, hear, and learn at home. They come to school lacking basic skills, supplies, nutrition, and respect. They are dropped at school 1/2 hour before the building even is open and are left after school to wait and wait. These kids only know confrontation and disrespect and they fight anytime I try to tell them that their behavior will not serve them well out in the “real world”. I want more for these kids than their own parents do and it breaks my heart.

I struggle to teach them the things they need to know in order to move on in life. I am teaching science along with manners, trust, respect, rights of others, decency, etc. Plus, instead of being able to do hands-on, fun activities, I need to cram their brains with the “test” information so they can do well on state tests and keep our school out of trouble.

Education may be failing, but I certainly do not see teachers as the major cause of this–at least not where I’m teaching. We love these kids and they may be failing in the learning department, but they are surrounded by loving, caring teachers who want nothing but the best for them.

First off, I don’t see education as a failing system. It certainly has its flaws, including a “done with the best of intentions for the sake of the children” high stakes assessment system. NCLB is creating an atmosphere in education in which test scores are key and creativity is going out the window. Watching my students spend almost three weeks of their school year with their faces lit by the glow of computer screens is enough to make me wonder if George Orwell and Ray Bradbury are doing their best Charlton Heston impression and shouting, “You idiots! You finally did it!”

Other issues are creating problems for education too. We have parents who feel parenting means giving into their child’s every demand. I can’t tell you how many kids I have seen torn between two divorced or divorcing parents who are more interested in being perceived as the “cool parent” than they are actually interested in parenting. Teachers have steadily become the disciplinarians and have to teach moral values that parents are neglecting to instill at home. Certainly some sort of effort to help families would also carry over into helping education.

Finally, there is the misconception in some parts of the public that teachers should just do their work out of love for working with students. I do love working with my students. But I also attended college and worked hard to learn about human development and teaching methods to become the best teacher possible. High teaching standards, a challenging curriculum, and familiarity with all of the bureaucratic paperwork require professionals paid at professional wages. I will not apologize for expecting to be paid at a salary high enough to pay off my student loans and support my family. I have already seen too many wonderful teachers leave the profession for higher paying jobs. Eliminate teacher unions, eliminate benefits packages, and lower teacher salaries and I guarantee that we will have a major crisis in public education because we won’t have the professionals to staff the positions.

There are times when even I wonder if working a basic 9-5 wouldn’t be a lot easier since the hours I work over one year would actually be LESS than the work I put in over 10 months in my teaching contract. Furthermore, I wouldn’t have to deal with Board members who expect us to achieve more with less year after year and parents who expect us to do their jobs for them and then raise hell with our administrators when their chlid makes a mistake.

American public education is not perfect, but it’s not in a crisis either. It is the only education system in the world that guarantees every citizen the right to a K-12 education funded by public taxes and protected by publicly elected school boards (securing taxation with representation). Even private education will not offer that. If it is in trouble, it is due to a lack of public support. Diminish the high stakes testing, offer more support and work with families, and pay teachers the professional wages they earn and deserve.

Yes becuae of teaches, but teachers are failing becuase of lack of funds theyre are getting to be able to teach courses. They get so under paid for being these great people that help the foundation of our future. And they get so disrespected by students. Its unbelivable. Thats why there are so much ignorance in the world.

i think of there are quite a few products to the puzzle. a lot of individuals who’ve already responded have placed the products together. i think of it unquestionably starts off with parenting. think of of what proportion extra waking hours there are outdoors of a university room than in one. Are the mum and dad examining to the baby? Are television and video games the babysitters (that could actual be because of the fact a single determine has to artwork 2 jobs and isn’t any longer their fault). i think of that there are a number of mum and dad that look to the faculties to instruct their little ones thoroughly and don’t keep on with as much as carry their little ones responsible to the valid expectancies of their instructors. What correct to the standards? We do want them – and yet in case you circulate to convey and can merely attempt for compliance employing numerous decision exams then you definately finally end up with instructors having to coach to the attempt. then you definately finally end up with young little ones no longer understanding a thank you to think of. it quite is any such no longer consumer-friendly element too because of the inequity of materials. investment comes from quite a few stages, and a brilliant form of impoverished communities can’t usher in sufficient tax money to repair the partitions in a university (much less by ability of the guidance content cloth needed to coach). So how can any student, instructor, or determine be envisioned to earnings in such an environment? instructors actual play a place. i’ve got “mounted” some young little ones that had a foul combination in 1st. i’ve got additionally heard of a few young little ones doing extra useful in third grade because of the fact of a extra useful coaching form that suits how they learn. some instructors have been burned out by ability of extra demands coming from the President and are merely looking in direction of retirement. and those young little ones do go through.

Teachers are the lack of funds. Every year the teacher gets a raise no matter if they are good or bad at what they do. How is a school system going to pay for supplies if every teacher makes 40,000 – 65,000 a year (9 mouths) and a great benefit package. They can do nothing else when they burn out because of kid or parents. So they stay there going throu he motions. Get rid of the teachers unions and supple the kids with teachers who love’s teaching and not someone looking for a career.

if your teacher does not teach good ten how will the student learn

my sister went to a private school one of her teachers talked in a weird accent so my sister never understood her so when it came to the time of tests my sister never good a really good grade

she didnt get a good grade because the teacher could not tech even if she could no one understood her

standards and acountability have been dropping or have failed on several fronts

but

good teachers should b allowed to each and not weighed-down by overzealous beauracrats……believe me their is plenty of money…..but it is wasted on worthless ‘touchy-feely’ programs instead of salaries…..hire good people, pay them and let them work…it isnt too complicated unless u choose to make it so…

me??

15 years of classroom dedication was about 15 yrs too long

GL