Seriously FFX? why can't school start on Monday?

[Anonymous]

The problem with FCPS teachers is they begin their sentences saying things like STFU.

You start with no credibility to begin your treatise.

Secondly, you are lazy. Your students never write enough to make the process easy and natural. You have your students work on the same paper all quarter long. Did you hear me - the same paper all quarter long. That means you the teacher only grade one paper per student all quarter long!

You tell them to add more supporting evidence right up until they've added enough supporting evidence and then you start telling them to begin removing supporting evidence.

You are the biggest bunch of lazy slugs who ever lived.

Writing several persuasive papers pers quarter would require real work on your part, but you are too damn lazy to read and grade a larger quantity of student papers.

Your students are not writing weekly persuasive arguments based on a variety of prompts so writing never becomes easy and natural. You have them writing and modifying the same damn paper for ten consecutive weeks for the sole purpose of appeasing you. By the time the paper is finished they have no idea how to write a persuasive arguement. All they know is that you've abused your power and spun their heads around so many times they have no clue as to how to write a persuasive arguement from scratch. They only know is after 22 revisions you were eventially appeased, but it still did earn them a grade of "A".

You were too lazy to assign, markup, and grade enough written work to adequately prepare them for the rigors of college.

Stop lying to your students - stop making believe you give a damn about our children.

[Anonymous]

Please withdraw your kid from school and homeschool them. You have no business using public school's when you feel this way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking online the prompts are not always persuasive or about their opinion on something but they are reflective on personal experience. Write about when laughter helped you in a situation. Write about an important decision you've had to make or will make. If some 11th graders can't write a five paragraph reflective essay on themselves by 11th grade without spending all year on it, then I guess I want them to spend all year on it. This is something I expect all graduates to be able to do.

They used to not be all persuasive prompts but have been solely persuasive for the last several years. But sure, I'm sure you know more than I do who actually teaches this. You looked online!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:care.com and stfu

I arranged care for the one day but this is totally the response I expected from FCPS but thanks for confirming.

Why are you assuming the STFU post was written by an FCPS employee & not a fellow parent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:care.com and stfu

I arranged care for the one day but this is totally the response I expected from FCPS but thanks for confirming.

Why are you assuming the STFU post was written by an FCPS employee & not a fellow parent?

See 6:38 as Exhibit A.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:care.com and stfu

I arranged care for the one day but this is totally the response I expected from FCPS but thanks for confirming.

Why are you assuming the STFU post was written by an FCPS employee & not a fellow parent?

See 6:38 as Exhibit A.

That was me and I don't teach in Fairfax, bozo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:care.com and stfu

I arranged care for the one day but this is totally the response I expected from FCPS but thanks for confirming.

Why are you assuming the STFU post was written by an FCPS employee & not a fellow parent?

See 6:38 as Exhibit A.

That was me and I don't teach in Fairfax, bozo.

Ohhh big fighting words. No wonder most Americans view teachers as lower than dirt. You’re a great poster child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The person who keeps saying that teachers must be intellectual should actually try teaching. Some of the most ineffectual teachers have been intellectual types especially when it came to management. Being an intellectual does not always equate to great classroom management.

Bingo!

If you played less bingo and studied the fundamentals of your profession you might help the children you are paid to teach to be successful in life. It's not a matter of being a Gore Vidal intellectual. It's a matter of being a true expert in your given discipline. Quality seasoned master teachers have a base reservoir of knowledge about their discipline ten times deeper and broader than any individual lesson they will ever teach. There is a very logical reason for this expectation. You are a teacher - you went to college - you majored in English, math, science, social studies etc. etc
Our expectations are that you are well read experts in your field. If you are not then you should not have been hired to teach.

You have all gotten into the habit and it is allowed by your principals to plagiarize lesson plans and to teach what is confined within that narrow box for the day. Teachers must be able to answer any revant question related to their field. They can dig deep in their reservoir of knowledge to provide a eureka moment for inquisitive students. Ever question must be a teachable moment. Unfortunately, you are not prepared to do so.

Unfortunately, you can't!

Teachers are no longer experts in their fields and it is madness, but they unable to answer anything outside of their cheat sheet - their lesson plan. They are actually proud of that fact. The expectation is after five years teachers must by experts in pedagogy and discipline content. If that is not who you are or what you aspire to be please find a different job, because you are not a "teacher" and you are denying our children the quality educations you are being paid to provide.

Thank the SOLs for this- you realize that teachers can't go off script and do creative lessons anymore? If it's not tested, it's not taught in most schools.

The SOLs have nothing to do with it. Virginia barely has any SOL tests anymore. They've removed all but bare bones testing. I had way most testing in my youth than my kids get now. The tests have nothing to do with teacher's expertise. The people going into the field are not passionate about their field and are not the most intelligent in their graduating class.

Stfu. You don't even know what you're talking about. All students MUST pass the 11th grade writing SOL to graduate. I teach that which means it is my job to give them the tools they need to pass that test. The writing component is entirely persuasive. Do I value narrative and creative writing over persuasive? Yes. Would I be derelict in my duty to my students to teach that more than persuasive? Yes. I have leeway to do some of what I want but ultimately my students need to do well on the SAT, SOLs and any other standardized tests they may take, such as AP. So that's where I focus my teaching.

638 clear states repeatedly that they are FCPS Teacher(s).

They refuse to teach because it is hard work.

They refuse to tell the truth because it exposes their ineffectiveness in the classroom.

You are a profane incompetent teacher and a dishonest liar as well.

Let's stop arguing about this. Stop coaching extra curricular activities. Dedicate yourself to yourself to your chosen profession. Return to college and learn the readings you missed or ignored your first time in the university

Return to teaching as a qualified educator this time.

Dedicate the rest of your working career to preparing your students for the rigors of college. Assign a new writing assignment every week and grade them over your weekends

Professionals work until the job is finished, not until 3:30 PM.

If you are not dedicated to the success of your students you need to find a different job that pays time and a half after forty hours.

[Anonymous]

638 said they are A TEACHER, never states they are a FCPS teacher. SOLs apply to the state, not FCPS singularly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please withdraw your kid from school and homeschool them. You have no business using public school's when you feel this way.

She has every business using public schools in any school district in which she is a taxpaying resident. She is also allowed to voice her opinion on the quality of the schools, even if that opinion is negative. If you don't want criticism from the public, do a better job or get a different job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please withdraw your kid from school and homeschool them. You have no business using public school's when you feel this way.

She has every business using public schools in any school district in which she is a taxpaying resident. She is also allowed to voice her opinion on the quality of the schools, even if that opinion is negative. If you don't want criticism from the public, do a better job or get a different job.

But she forgot to rant about the teachers’ lounges so her post lacks any real gravitas.

[Anonymous]

Bitching about days off from school before the school year even starts!

DCUM upping its game for 2018/19!

[Anonymous]

Writing several persuasive papers pers quarter would require real work on your part, but you are too damn lazy to read and grade a larger quantity of student papers.

Your students are not writing weekly persuasive arguments based on a variety of prompts so writing never becomes easy and natural. You have them writing and modifying the same damn paper for ten consecutive weeks for the sole purpose of appeasing you. By the time the paper is finished they have no idea how to write a persuasive arguement. All they know is that you've abused your power and spun their heads around so many times they have no clue as to how to write a persuasive arguement from scratch. They only know is after 22 revisions you were eventially appeased, but it still did earn them a grade of "A".

You were too lazy to assign, markup, and grade enough written work to adequately prepare them for the rigors of college.

A friend of mine (she has an English degree got her masters in education later on) taught middle school AAP English as you suggest. She was spending virtually all of her free time grading essays, the parents could not handle the fact that their children were receiving low grades and actual constructive criticism, and she left the profession three years after she started. The crazy parents basically drove her out.

Instead of complaining about FCPS, why not put your kids in private school? Certainly someone with your dazzling intellect and such exacting standards has done well enough to easily afford it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bitching about days off from school before the school year even starts!

DCUM upping its game for 2018/19!

Actually, FCPS just decided to start its ridiculous calls super early this year. It usually waits a little before making them.

[Anonymous]

Our school is doing a new student orientation on Monday for middle schools.