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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Open your eyes, PP. By living with your head in the clouds, you'll just allow the profession to die a slow, agonizing death. The truth is ugly, but so is a pimple. And if you cover it up with expensive foundation, it's still there. [/quote]

Not the PP, but discouraging, no, forbidding, your child to become a teacher also contributes to the slow, agonizing death to the profession. You can complain or you can be part of working on the solution. Frankly, I have no respect for simple complainers.[/quote]

Then don't complain when taxes are raised.

Don't cry foul when your child is not "getting enough" b/c his classroom is a mixed group.

Those who don't complain are in systems - or areas of systems - where there's money.  And if there isn't enough money in the budget, parents have enough to buy, for example, another Promethean Board for a classroom.

Again, so many of you are living in oblivion - including teachers.  And elementary school teachers are so far removed from high school that they have NO idea who's graduating with the reading skills of a 4th grader.

I would never encourage my kids to enter the profession until parents step up - and this isn't to say I want helicoptering.  I want involved parents who respect what we do.  But so many think that anyone can teach.  Read the editorials and forums.  Anyone can teach b/c everyone's been through school.  right?

Read about how easy it is to receive a degree in education.  how the lowest of the low enter the profession

I am one of many.  Don't think I'm on my own here.  But sadly, b/c teachers are too afraid to talk, the system will break.  I've seen perfectly solid schools fall apart b/c of a change in demographics - where the poverty level reached over 50%, where class sizes grew to 40, where co-taught classes were taught by one educator and one para who had no ESOL or SPED certification.

This is what I want for my kids?

no way

Bottom line is this - Most new teachers will leave w/in 5 years.  I've seen plenty over my career do that.  Furthermore, they'll end up in a highly impacted school with little to no support, where management becomes an issue b/c of various factors.

This profession is so complex that even w/in three years - when tenure kicks in - you still don't know what you don't know.

I laugh at teachers who are in places like Anacostia, getting paid pennies and yet using their own money to buy their own supplies.  How many of you are buying office supplies?  Imagine buying enough for classes of 20 or more.  This is more the norm than you think.

I'm so amazed at how many of you can't seem to put down your rose-colored glasses for more than a minute in order to see what the real problems are.  Spend a day shadowing a teacher at a highly impacted school.  I had someone watch me for a day.  She was so saddened by their skill level (and my kids are well behaved) that she refused to make the change from private to public.  It took one day.[/quote]

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