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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

So if public institutions are broken your answer is for citizens to go pay for better services and allow the incompetence in the public institution to continue on the taxpayers' dime? Also, if all the AAP kids your friend taught had such terrible writing skills, doesn't it say more about the previous years' teachers than the kids? These are the kids that are supposed to be the most advanced students in the county and they all still can't write in middle school? After years of supposedly accelerated instruction? It just reinforces what the pp is saying about the caliber of instruction in FCPS. Your friend was likely one of the few competent teachers who actually took pride in quality teaching. My DC who was in 5th grade AAP last year had basically no writing assignments. I confirmed this with other parents. And then the kids are the ones that drove your friend out? The root cause is lack of quality instruction in lower years.

[Anonymous]

Everyone deserves a quality education.

High school students deserve to have expert teachers who have a single intense subject focus. English teachers are not well read and they are lazy.

The importance of having read the classics and knowing the history of the periods in which they were written is to help students truly understand the loves, joys, disappointments, failures, hopes, dreams and desires of the characters in the books they read.

One of the joys of learning as a child is to understand the commonality of the human experinence. To understand regardless of time, space, era, and geography the human experience has changed little.

English teachers have not even begun to master the literary classics which are the basis of their profession; it's sad. They know nothing about the era when Shakespeare lived which makes it impossible to effectively put into context the true motivations of the characters of Romeo, Juliet, Shylock, Portia, etc. etc.

Why did Shakespeare choose these topics at this moment in time? There are dozens of examples how well read teachers can help students have eureka moments of understanding the human condition is actually timeless.

Teachers can help students understand where and what roles in the classics they themselves would have fit. Who in history might i have been and who in the future I might become. Or in a different exercise in logic is an examination of how authors have often times hidden cynical political commentary about the eras in which they lived when censorship was the norm.

Unfortunately, English teachers are not scholarly so they can never bring the material alive. For too many students all educational knowledge remains isolated nebulous facts floating in space diconected from each other and most importantly disconnected from themselves. This needs to change. Teachers need to be experts in their field in order to make every moment of their lessons teachable memorable moments.

Secondly, students must constantly be writing. They must be creating narrative and persuasive written works in order to make writing a natural extension of their human existence.

Reading, marking up, and grading written assignments was once part of the normal everyday part of an English teacher's life. It was hard work, but that was a critical part of the profession they had chosen. Grading written assignments is hard work at best, but without practice it is dreadful and nearly impossible.

Unfortunately, English teachers have lost an understanding of the fundamental duties and responsibilities of their profession. Today they assign one written assignment each quarter and demand their students complete endless revisions of that same paper. There is no real writing assigned in high school. It's all smoke and mirrors to camouflage the fact no real writing is taking place. The big lie is that the students are revising their written assignment to make them perfect. When the reality is after a couple revisions the students have lost all track and recognition of their original thesis. After several revisions their thesis has no meaning whatsoever. The only thing that now matters is finding a way of appeasing their teacher. All through the quarter the teacher is simply grading and regrading the same paper over-and-over again.

One revision is fair, ten revisions is purely exploitive.

People learn to write and think by doing not by revising and appeasing.

Stop being lazy and start assigning and grading weekly writing assignments. Stop being lazy and start preparing your students for the real rigors of college. Stop lying to your students by convincing your students that endless revisions is in some way preparing them for college.

[Anonymous]

YOU are mentally disturbed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YOU are mentally disturbed.

And you are either a barely literate 10th grader or a FCPS English teacher

Or both because the two are not mutually exclusive.

[Anonymous]

GEEZ,, it's a multi-billion dollar school system and all they can say is STFU?

Their teachers are not mentally deficient, they are mentally and physically lazy. The only thing preventing academic quality is the emphasis on athletics and a complete disregard for employing scholarly teachers. Surely a 22 year old is not going to be and old sage, but if they are not by age 32 they must be fired.

The era of being a good coach or best friends with the Assistant Principal and a lazy teacher must end.

Principals get up off your collective asses and start doing your jobs. When the principals are present, the Assistant Princpals are circulating, the teachers know they must teach from skill and knowledge not from plagiarized lesson plans. Students will be educated. Poor instruction always translates into poor classroom management.

FCPS has lazy principals which trickle down to lazy Assistant Principals and lazy teachers. FCPS teachers are not bad because they are stupid, its because they are too lazy to become scholars in their own chosen disciplines and the principals don't really care.

FCPS schools are dysfunctional. Teachers are uninspired, students aren't learning, kids are bullied, less than popular students are ignored by their teachers who are hired to be their mentors and protectors.

Get your lazy gossiping asses out of the teachers lounges, read the content matter for today's lesson, really teach your classes instead of just going through the motions, teach and protect all of your students.

And stop trying to be buddies with the cool kids. You are just making an ass of yourself. They already have plenty of friends. They need scholarly educators who they can respect not some middle aged dork who desperately wants to be their buddy.

Ok. So you are either a substitute teacher in FCPS or someone who used to teach there. Keep in mind that your experience there was/is limited at best, and that there are some very dedicated teachers in FCPS.
(Also, no one should be teaching about Shylock in 2018. That play is anti-Semitic.)

[Anonymous]

I winder what it says about parents who think FCPS is terrible and yet choose to send their kids there anyway. You must be terrible parents. Please do a better job parenting because you currently suck at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I winder what it says about parents who think FCPS is terrible and yet choose to send their kids there anyway. You must be terrible parents. Please do a better job parenting because you currently suck at it.

I guess so, but can you really blame parents for moving into one of the most wealthy areas of the country into what has been rumored as a top school district? People buy homes, get jobs here, make friends, and then find out about all the problems. It's not that easy to just pick up and start again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

GEEZ,, it's a multi-billion dollar school system and all they can say is STFU?

Their teachers are not mentally deficient, they are mentally and physically lazy. The only thing preventing academic quality is the emphasis on athletics and a complete disregard for employing scholarly teachers. Surely a 22 year old is not going to be and old sage, but if they are not by age 32 they must be fired.

The era of being a good coach or best friends with the Assistant Principal and a lazy teacher must end.

Principals get up off your collective asses and start doing your jobs. When the principals are present, the Assistant Princpals are circulating, the teachers know they must teach from skill and knowledge not from plagiarized lesson plans. Students will be educated. Poor instruction always translates into poor classroom management.

FCPS has lazy principals which trickle down to lazy Assistant Principals and lazy teachers. FCPS teachers are not bad because they are stupid, its because they are too lazy to become scholars in their own chosen disciplines and the principals don't really care.

FCPS schools are dysfunctional. Teachers are uninspired, students aren't learning, kids are bullied, less than popular students are ignored by their teachers who are hired to be their mentors and protectors.

Get your lazy gossiping asses out of the teachers lounges, read the content matter for today's lesson, really teach your classes instead of just going through the motions, teach and protect all of your students.

And stop trying to be buddies with the cool kids. You are just making an ass of yourself. They already have plenty of friends. They need scholarly educators who they can respect not some middle aged dork who desperately wants to be their buddy.

Ok. So you are either a substitute teacher in FCPS or someone who used to teach there. Keep in mind that your experience there was/is limited at best, and that there are some very dedicated teachers in FCPS.
(Also, no one should be teaching about Shylock in 2018. That play is anti-Semitic.)

This is the teachers’ lounge poster. Her cuckoo posts are all over DCUM. I thought it was a parent, but now I think either a fired teacher or an aspiring one who can’t get a contract.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

I don't believe this. I have yet to see a teacher actually give constructive criticism in FCPS. Probably she was just grading them and they were wondering why the low grades or how their child could improve. That is different. Also, if kids are consistently given low grades, it's probably the wrong level for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I winder what it says about parents who think FCPS is terrible and yet choose to send their kids there anyway. You must be terrible parents. Please do a better job parenting because you currently suck at it.

I guess so, but can you really blame parents for moving into one of the most wealthy areas of the country into what has been rumored as a top school district? People buy homes, get jobs here, make friends, and then find out about all the problems. It's not that easy to just pick up and start again.

Sure, but if their kids’ education is as important to them as they make it seem, they shouldn’t rely on rumors.

I mean, sure there are problems but it’s better than most systems out there. These parents make it seem like the teachers are complete trash. And yet they continue to trust their kids in their care. I guess it must not really be that bad or they don’t care enough to put their kids in a better situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I winder what it says about parents who think FCPS is terrible and yet choose to send their kids there anyway. You must be terrible parents. Please do a better job parenting because you currently suck at it.

So Fairfax County residents should subsidize incompetent teachers with their tax dollars, and then spend $30,000 a year on private school for each kid instead of on undergrad or grad school? Or uproot their kids and move them elsewhere? Yes, that sounds like good parenting Many parents do as I do and supplement at home, and others pay for tutors, so, no, they don't suck as parents. You, however, suck as a person for not caring about the less fortunate parents who can't supplement because of lack of education, and who can't just uproot their kids to find something better because they don't have the financial means. Those people don't suck as parents, they're just trying to do their best, and FCPS isn't doing its best to make sure that all kids in the county are getting a decent education. But I'm sure they aren't your concern because you're too busy defending incompetence to this about them or their kids.

[Anonymous]

The Merchant of Venice has been taught in high schools for a hundred years in English classes.

This is a classic example of FCPS teachers only understanding the Cliff notes of any of the classics. FCPS English teachers in the case of Shakespeare only know and understand the Cliff Notes versions. FCPS teachers are so unaware and unprepared they are never able to provide any true back story that attendees at the Globe theater would know and understood while viewing Shakespearean productions.

Continental Europe was in the middle of the Spanish and Italian Inquisitions non-catholics were being, tortured, murdered and exiled.
For decades Jews in England lived in relative peace. However, in the 1590s Parliment passed a series of laws restricting the rights of Jews in England prohibiting immigration and forcing many into exile.

The abuse of Shylock took place in Venice but for those attending the play at the Globe Theater would have known that the Merchant of Venice was Shakespeare's personal protest again recently enacted anti-semtic laws in England which was experiencing it own religious turmoil.
There were censorship laws so these questions religious intolerance had to be theoretical staged in a different country.

In Romeo and Juliet what and why was there a generation's old blood feud between two merchant families during the Renaissance? At that moment in time there was an emerging merchant class in England. Were there similarities and was this a warning of things to come.

Those attending at the Globe Theater would understand the back stories of the era's in which they lived whereas FCPS teachers only provide the most superficial Cliff Notes versions of great literature.

You do nothing to make literature or writing relevant to the era's in which it occured or the subsequent events that occurred as result either. To the students all you teach is a nebulous blurr connected to nothing. Your students spend their four years of penance praying for the day when they can graduate thereby ending their drudgery in your dungeons.

You should not have any interest whatsoever who I am or where I'm from. Why - what would be your gain from that?

Your concern should be to question why your profession has become so horribly void of scholarly engaged instructors who truly have mastery of the content you have contracted to teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Merchant of Venice has been taught in high schools for a hundred years in English classes.

This is a classic example of FCPS teachers only understanding the Cliff notes of any of the classics. FCPS English teachers in the case of Shakespeare only know and understand the Cliff Notes versions. FCPS teachers are so unaware and unprepared they are never able to provide any true back story that attendees at the Globe theater would know and understood while viewing Shakespearean productions.

Continental Europe was in the middle of the Spanish and Italian Inquisitions non-catholics were being, tortured, murdered and exiled.
For decades Jews in England lived in relative peace. However, in the 1590s Parliment passed a series of laws restricting the rights of Jews in England prohibiting immigration and forcing many into exile.

The abuse of Shylock took place in Venice but for those attending the play at the Globe Theater would have known that the Merchant of Venice was Shakespeare's personal protest again recently enacted anti-semtic laws in England which was experiencing it own religious turmoil.
There were censorship laws so these questions religious intolerance had to be theoretical staged in a different country.

In Romeo and Juliet what and why was there a generation's old blood feud between two merchant families during the Renaissance? At that moment in time there was an emerging merchant class in England. Were there similarities and was this a warning of things to come.

Those attending at the Globe Theater would understand the back stories of the era's in which they lived whereas FCPS teachers only provide the most superficial Cliff Notes versions of great literature.

You do nothing to make literature or writing relevant to the era's in which it occured or the subsequent events that occurred as result either. To the students all you teach is a nebulous blurr connected to nothing. Your students spend their four years of penance praying for the day when they can graduate thereby ending their drudgery in your dungeons.

You should not have any interest whatsoever who I am or where I'm from. Why - what would be your gain from that?

Your concern should be to question why your profession has become so horribly void of scholarly engaged instructors who truly have mastery of the content you have contracted to teach.

Why do I get the impression 99% of the posts on this thread are the same person?

[Anonymous]

If you can teach --- teach

If all you have to offer is 144 characters then get off the line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I winder what it says about parents who think FCPS is terrible and yet choose to send their kids there anyway. You must be terrible parents. Please do a better job parenting because you currently suck at it.

So Fairfax County residents should subsidize incompetent teachers with their tax dollars, and then spend $30,000 a year on private school for each kid instead of on undergrad or grad school? Or uproot their kids and move them elsewhere? Yes, that sounds like good parenting Many parents do as I do and supplement at home, and others pay for tutors, so, no, they don't suck as parents. You, however, suck as a person for not caring about the less fortunate parents who can't supplement because of lack of education, and who can't just uproot their kids to find something better because they don't have the financial means. Those people don't suck as parents, they're just trying to do their best, and FCPS isn't doing its best to make sure that all kids in the county are getting a decent education. But I'm sure they aren't your concern because you're too busy defending incompetence to this about them or their kids.

Dear, I never said that those who are less fortunate suck as parents. They don’t need your faux concern. Most parents with kids in FCPS don’t have your inflated sense of entitlement and have reasonable expectations.

I’m saying that YOU suck as a parent.