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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When did people start hating teachers? They do one of our most important jobs and take responsibility for the care and attention to the most valuable people in our lives. Are they all great? No but Jesus, they aren't the antichrist. I'd love to see most of you manage. Most teachers I talk to do it because they want to give and shape young lives. What on earth is wrong with you people? How the hell are YOU contributing to the betterment of society? Your stupid G8 job at the Department of Agriculture sure isn't meaningful. [/quote]

I've had my children in public school.  I've seen first hand the lack of work ethic. That doesn't mean the trump administration doesn't suck. 
First I watched as public school teachers allow students to squeak by without mastering or even learning at all. Then I come here to see them moaning about their 5 hour a day, vacation laden jobs during normal times. Now I've witnessed them putting in 45 minutes of work for my children.  Some even less. 
If anyone with an actual job put in such abysmally weak performance we would be fired. [/quote]

Teacher here— just want to make sure that you know that it is pressure FROM ADMIN AND CENTRAL OFFICE that make us pass kids who barely do anything. We HATE it. The “You just have to get a 58.5 2nd Q” to pass is absolutely ridiculous. I have kids who don’t show up for an entire quarter, show up for maybe 4 days the next quarter, and admin is all over me to pass them. We. Absolutely. Hate. It. I had a kid who was literally on a kindergarten reading level at the end of 8th grade and the principals passed him into HS. I’d had meetings w/ parents, worked my ass off to get him INto a reading Support class (that admin said he didn’t need). He failed English all four quarters and his uncle even begged the school not to promote him bc his uncle knew he was illiterate. Didn’t matter. The school sent him to HS, and it breaks my heart because this happens ALL THE TIME. They want their promotion and graduation numbers up so they keep lowering the bar, pressuring teachers, and promoting kids who have literally failed every single class.

Parents and teachers should work together to speak out against this, but again, teachers HATE IT.[/quote]

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