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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Title One teacher here. I’ve taught in schools at the opposite ends of the spectrum plus private schools. The best teachers are in the Title One schools because you cannot slack off. You constantly have to prove yourself and people are constantly judging you when they are in your classrooms all of the time. I now have to fill out a Google form about every single conversion I have about a student. If I taught to a special ed teacher in passing in the hallway about a student, I’ll have to fill out a form (within 24 hours!). If I call/email or meet with a parent (or attempt to), I have to fill out a form. If I attend a meeting about a student, ditto. We have to make an attempt to contact parents after two consecutive absences from school. So I have at least a quarter of my class who meets this criteria so that is at least 6 attempts plus the time it takes to fill out 6 separate Google forms. We joke that we should just wear body cameras so it will record us doing these things so we don’t have to fill out the dreaded Google form. Only the strong survive. The people at my school can never be said that we don’t care. If we didn’t care, we’d teach somewhere much easier (like my own school). Those teachers take the credit for their students hitting a home Run when the kids started school on third base.[/quote]

Doesn’t sound like a tolerance for being under a microscope and filling out tons of paperwork necessarily should be equated with being a great teacher. [/quote]

People are in our classrooms constantly. You cannot slack off ever or you will be put on a PIP. My friends in wealthy areas have one or two observations a year and that’s it. They admit that they coast along because most of their kids will do well anyway. They almost all have tutors. [/quote]

Why should you slack off? You are being paid to teach some of the most vulnerable kids in the nation. Need a mental health day? Take personal leave. Need more mental health days than you have leave? Find a new job. [/quote]

I think it is attitudes like yours, PP, that are driving teachers out of teaching, especially at the schools with the most vulnerable students.  [/quote]

Teachers who can’t cut it should be driven out of teaching. They are not providing a vital service they are being paid to deliver. Are hospitals keeping on incompetent nurses? Does the military retain soldiers who need to slack off and resent being evaluated? Even retail will fire you if you are not doing your job. Slacking off instead of teaching should not be any different.[/quote]

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