Child told to walk last in line for final quarter

[Anonymous]

It was not a sudden punishment that is unfairly long. Clearly this has been an issue all year and the teacher is done. Tell your child to follow rules and not bother all the other students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a good example of why no one wants to be a teacher any more. The parents are so awful.

Or way too many awful people are choosing to enter the profession, can’t do then teach, and the not awful people are choosing to avoid the teaching profession.

Look around our schools what do you see? A sea of teachers who by and large are of the same demographic, average intelligence at best, white women. This demographic exists from the top to the bottom.

A by and large homogeneous group is driving curriculum and policy. It’s absolutely stale, much like day old bread, still edible but not very good and not what you’d choose if you had other choices.

We need more of the best and brightest including, men, and minorities, to enter the profession and in order to accomplish that teachers need to be paid more, a lot more. The entire system needs an overhaul. Elementary education in this country is on such a decline.

The lack of diversity and lack of talent in the profession is a huge part of the problem and it is strangling FCPS.

Stop blaming the parents and kids, the curriculum is awful, so many of the kids aren’t engaged because they are being fed daily s sandwiches, which leaves them hungrily looking for mental stimulation in anyway they can get it.

The parents know something is off, but what can they do about it? Complaining is on par with windmill jousting, but it’s something, oh and supplement, supplement with outside enrichment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good example of why no one wants to be a teacher any more. The parents are so awful.

Or way too many awful people are choosing to enter the profession, can’t do then teach, and the not awful people are choosing to avoid the teaching profession.

Look around our schools what do you see? A sea of teachers who by and large are of the same demographic, average intelligence at best, white women. This demographic exists from the top to the bottom.

A by and large homogeneous group is driving curriculum and policy. It’s absolutely stale, much like day old bread, still edible but not very good and not what you’d choose if you had other choices.

We need more of the best and brightest including, men, and minorities, to enter the profession and in order to accomplish that teachers need to be paid more, a lot more. The entire system needs an overhaul. Elementary education in this country is on such a decline.

The lack of diversity and lack of talent in the profession is a huge part of the problem and it is strangling FCPS.

Stop blaming the parents and kids, the curriculum is awful, so many of the kids aren’t engaged because they are being fed daily s sandwiches, which leaves them hungrily looking for mental stimulation in anyway they can get it.

The parents know something is off, but what can they do about it? Complaining is on par with windmill jousting, but it’s something, oh and supplement, supplement with outside enrichment.

The salaries will never attract the “best and the brightest”. It is as simple as that. So we need to support the teachers we have so they don’t also leave. That includes supporting them with discipline when they are having behavioral issues with our children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reading comprehension levels on this thread are not so hot.

*I am the OP*, ****I**** never said a word, as one might be able to infer from the next few phrases:

Never said a word, just like I never have any time she has received a punishment from a teacher since she started school.

That runs counter to the narrative everyone projected on here about me being a snowflake parent that is responsible for teachers fleeing the biz because I refuse to allow my child to be disciplined, but it's the truth.

****What kind of dimwit thinks that means I am claiming my child never said a word?

Oh come on, OP! You did not use correct English grammar in constructing your paragraph. If you'll defend that and attack others instead of clarifying and owning your own confusing post, who knows what ridiculous defenses you've been making for your chatter box child. You both need to get over it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good example of why no one wants to be a teacher any more. The parents are so awful.

Or way too many awful people are choosing to enter the profession, can’t do then teach, and the not awful people are choosing to avoid the teaching profession.

Look around our schools what do you see? A sea of teachers who by and large are of the same demographic, average intelligence at best, white women. This demographic exists from the top to the bottom.

A by and large homogeneous group is driving curriculum and policy. It’s absolutely stale, much like day old bread, still edible but not very good and not what you’d choose if you had other choices.

We need more of the best and brightest including, men, and minorities, to enter the profession and in order to accomplish that teachers need to be paid more, a lot more. The entire system needs an overhaul. Elementary education in this country is on such a decline.

The lack of diversity and lack of talent in the profession is a huge part of the problem and it is strangling FCPS.

Stop blaming the parents and kids, the curriculum is awful, so many of the kids aren’t engaged because they are being fed daily s sandwiches, which leaves them hungrily looking for mental stimulation in anyway they can get it.

The parents know something is off, but what can they do about it? Complaining is on par with windmill jousting, but it’s something, oh and supplement, supplement with outside enrichment.

The salaries will never attract the “best and the brightest”. It is as simple as that. So we need to support the teachers we have so they don’t also leave. That includes supporting them with discipline when they are having behavioral issues with our children.

Totally agree with this, but PP's demographics complaint may be more a reflection of her school than FCPS as a whole. My HS DD only has 3 white women for teachers this year. The others are 2 white men, 1 black man, 1 black woman, and 1 Indian woman. That's been typical of her HS and MS years. And in 6 years in ES, she had men for teachers in second and third grade. Yes, it does skew towards white women, but still fairly diverse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good example of why no one wants to be a teacher any more. The parents are so awful.

Or way too many awful people are choosing to enter the profession, can’t do then teach, and the not awful people are choosing to avoid the teaching profession.

Look around our schools what do you see? A sea of teachers who by and large are of the same demographic, average intelligence at best, white women. This demographic exists from the top to the bottom.

A by and large homogeneous group is driving curriculum and policy. It’s absolutely stale, much like day old bread, still edible but not very good and not what you’d choose if you had other choices.

We need more of the best and brightest including, men, and minorities, to enter the profession and in order to accomplish that teachers need to be paid more, a lot more. The entire system needs an overhaul. Elementary education in this country is on such a decline.

The lack of diversity and lack of talent in the profession is a huge part of the problem and it is strangling FCPS.

Stop blaming the parents and kids, the curriculum is awful, so many of the kids aren’t engaged because they are being fed daily s sandwiches, which leaves them hungrily looking for mental stimulation in anyway they can get it.

The parents know something is off, but what can they do about it? Complaining is on par with windmill jousting, but it’s something, oh and supplement, supplement with outside enrichment.

The salaries will never attract the “best and the brightest”. It is as simple as that. So we need to support the teachers we have so they don’t also leave. That includes supporting them with discipline when they are having behavioral issues with our children.

Totally agree with this, but PP's demographics complaint may be more a reflection of her school than FCPS as a whole. My HS DD only has 3 white women for teachers this year. The others are 2 white men, 1 black man, 1 black woman, and 1 Indian woman. That's been typical of her HS and MS years. And in 6 years in ES, she had men for teachers in second and third grade. Yes, it does skew towards white women, but still fairly diverse.

I think the PP must not have been in a school lately. The demographics he described were true in the past, but, now, not so much. And, FWIW, I was a teacher who always made great grades and scored very high on standardized tests. I taught with plenty of people who were better teachers than I was. And, I'm sure they did not score as well as I did on standardized tests. Teaching is both a science and an art.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good example of why no one wants to be a teacher any more. The parents are so awful.

Or way too many awful people are choosing to enter the profession, can’t do then teach, and the not awful people are choosing to avoid the teaching profession.

Look around our schools what do you see? A sea of teachers who by and large are of the same demographic, average intelligence at best, white women. This demographic exists from the top to the bottom.

A by and large homogeneous group is driving curriculum and policy. It’s absolutely stale, much like day old bread, still edible but not very good and not what you’d choose if you had other choices.

We need more of the best and brightest including, men, and minorities, to enter the profession and in order to accomplish that teachers need to be paid more, a lot more. The entire system needs an overhaul. Elementary education in this country is on such a decline.

The lack of diversity and lack of talent in the profession is a huge part of the problem and it is strangling FCPS.

Stop blaming the parents and kids, the curriculum is awful, so many of the kids aren’t engaged because they are being fed daily s sandwiches, which leaves them hungrily looking for mental stimulation in anyway they can get it.

The parents know something is off, but what can they do about it? Complaining is on par with windmill jousting, but it’s something, oh and supplement, supplement with outside enrichment.

The salaries will never attract the “best and the brightest”. It is as simple as that. So we need to support the teachers we have so they don’t also leave. That includes supporting them with discipline when they are having behavioral issues with our children.

Totally agree with this, but PP's demographics complaint may be more a reflection of her school than FCPS as a whole. My HS DD only has 3 white women for teachers this year. The others are 2 white men, 1 black man, 1 black woman, and 1 Indian woman. That's been typical of her HS and MS years. And in 6 years in ES, she had men for teachers in second and third grade. Yes, it does skew towards white women, but still fairly diverse.

And I should add, the vast majority of DD's teachers, whether male or female, white or not, have all been very good to excellent.