Summer School, what's with the veteran teachers

[Anonymous]

I am all for veteran teachers but I am telling you these relics that are teaching summer school have me wondering if AARP hasn't invaded DCPS. I have observed some classroom management and one "senior" teacher didn't know how to activate/operate the computer/white board in the classroom. She literally was going to use a dry-erase marker on the screen. What was the pre-screening process? If I here one more teacher say "hey honey, hey sweetie-pie or baaaaaby" can you help me with this computer. What was the summer school theme this year "Back to the Future?"

[Anonymous]

Eh, lots of times the older teachers are better. Particularly the women and minorities as they didnt have a lot of alternative career choices

[Anonymous]

Maybe the veterans know the difference between here and hear

[Anonymous]

Maybe they don't know how to operate the whiteboard because their regular classrooms have not been supplied with one. I am a fairly new teacher who does not know how to operate a whiteboard because my Title I school can't afford to have them in all classrooms.

Please take a moment to think before you make broad assumptions. Not all teachers, schools and thus students, are supported equally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh, lots of times the older teachers are better. Particularly the women and minorities as they didnt have a lot of alternative career choices

Huh??

[Anonymous]

You sound like you are also an employee of DCPS. Show some respect.

[Anonymous]

Classroom management and operating a Smartboard (yes, that's what a computer/white board machine is called - either that or a Promethean board) are two different skill sets. Which bothers you more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am all for veteran teachers but I am telling you these relics that are teaching summer school have me wondering if AARP hasn't invaded DCPS. I have observed some classroom management and one "senior" teacher didn't know how to activate/operate the computer/white board in the classroom. She literally was going to use a dry-erase marker on the screen. What was the pre-screening process? If I here one more teacher say "hey honey, hey sweetie-pie or baaaaaby" can you help me with this computer. What was the summer school theme this year "Back to the Future?"

I have a staff of 160 many of them 20-something's and I had to train them all to use the SmartBoard when we got it. Age has nothing to do with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe the veterans know the difference between here and hear

lol!

[Anonymous]

You must be an old-coot to find hear and here funny. Smartboard/whiteboard/Promethean, so you named all smarty-pants. Get a grip. I would think if summer school is being held in the newer facilities that a tutorial on technology would be helpful. This is so old-maid like and you wonder why Johnny can't read, it is because Grandma Dynamite can't operate the computer.

Blah, blah, blah and smelling like arthritis ointment to boot.

[Anonymous]

Oh word salad, word salad. Here I was wondering what you would be doing with yourself with school out and the Eastern band away, and you went and answered my question. Nice to know you're still involved in DCPS even in the summer time. Every time you post, it's a little more evidence that my children belong in charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am all for veteran teachers but I am telling you these relics that are teaching summer school have me wondering if AARP hasn't invaded DCPS. I have observed some classroom management and one "senior" teacher didn't know how to activate/operate the computer/white board in the classroom. She literally was going to use a dry-erase marker on the screen. What was the pre-screening process? If I here one more teacher say "hey honey, hey sweetie-pie or baaaaaby" can you help me with this computer. What was the summer school theme this year "Back to the Future?"

Just so you know, the ebeams at our school have dry erase marker boards. If you're still using the old fashioned kind with the weird screeny thing, you're hopelessly out of date.

[Anonymous]

Whenever I encounter an adult who is clueless about technology I jut try to remind myself that in 40 years or so I will be the clueless fool and my grand kids will be rolling their eyes at me because I don't have an internet chip implanted in my brain or whatever we'll be doing in 40 years.

[Anonymous]

10:18, it is little more evident that Deliverance has made a sequel. Got banjo!!

[Anonymous]

Word salad, don't let the haters get to you. They simply don't honor your creativity and stream of consciousness writing that is so original. You have fans!