Some say they know what's wrong with Public Schools, I think we all know, what do you think?

Question

My wife has taught in Public School for 20 years. She teaches in an inner-city school district. Last year she was asked by no-child left behind to get a masters degree to teach 5 year olds...so we are paying 17K to do just that even though she is just a few years from retirement. I get so tired of hearing from the media and some government officals that the problem is the teachers..WRONG!
My wife is an excellent teacher who loves the children she has educated. NO one will say the real problem...the Problem is (95%) the horrible parents these children live with, they are exposed to drugs and the most dysfuntional behavior most of us could never imagine.

Why isn't anyone saying this???

That's my rant from a husband who loves his wife and hates what is being said about our wonderful, dedicated teachers...thank God for these hero's!!!

Answer 1

I can emphatise with you. It's just the simple case of one black sheep, and the whole flock gets it. Life isn't fair, so we'll just have to deal with it.

But whatever that anyone else says doesn't matter. As long as the beloved ones know and appreciates, it'll mean a lot to the good teachers. ^_^

I salute those kind of teachers~ ^__^

[send my best wishes to your wife~ ^_^]

Answer 2

Your wonderful teacher wife should teach you that pluralization doesn't require an apostrophe; that denotes possession.

As to your rant, yes there are some good teachers and some bad parents. But neither group is all good or all bad; some teachers are horrible, misanthropic pond scum who hate kids and are teaching just because it's comfortable for them. On the other hand, there are good parents who have to deal with these teachers. I've seen both, and in 2 different extremes; inner city when I lived in Brooklyn and suburban/rural in the lovely state of Floriduh.

It may be more difficult, but you have to take much smaller groups and situations; there is no blanket relief for any situation in education because the situations differ from region to region, school to school and even classroom to classroom.

And the true culprit in all school behavioral problems today is political correctness and the new (lack of) disciplinary discretion. Kids get away with murder and disciplining them is banned. Ergo, they have no guidelines or any sense of cause/effect, consequences of their behavior so a society of mutants is being created that knows fewer and fewer social boundaries.

It's admirable that your wife is doing that at her/your expense, but that is her choice and once made of free will shouldn't be partially retracted or otherwise sullied by complaining about it.