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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I'm a "let the whole system burn" teacher.  I don't care what happens to it anymore.  Truly.  3 years and I'm done.  I truly believe there's going to be a whole meltdown, there'll be entire schools that have to close and or class sizes in the 40's or 50's, and eventually special ed will have to be taken over through private insurance.  But again, I don't care anymore.  This system has chewed me up and spit me out.  Let it burn.[/quote]

There's a small group of posters that get hard at the thought of getting children with special needs out of public schools so that they and their kids won't have to see them anymore.

Keep it in your pants. It isn't going to happen.[/quote]

That wasn’t the PP’s point AT ALL. She’s an overworked, mistreated, burned-out teacher at the end of her rope. My guess is she just put in 3 miserable years the likes of which you can’t imagine, trying to put out many fires simultaneously and seeing very few results (and being disrespected for her efforts). She works in a system designed to fail, and she the one keeping it together through late nights and exhausting days.

This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with trying to get students with special needs out of schools. Stop assuming the worst and accept that teachers are burning out as they try to make something with nothing for your children. The only correct thing to say is “thank you for your 3 years and I’m sorry.”[/quote]

Read her post again.[/quote]

Still no.

She wrote: “ there'll be entire schools that have to close and or class sizes in the 40's or 50's, and eventually special ed will have to be taken over through private insurance”. And why will that be? Because everyone is quitting. It has nothing to do with trying to get students with special needs out of the system and EVERYTHING to do with teachers burning out. What she wrote is a warning. This is where we are heading because people can’t endure the exhaustion of teaching anymore. She’s saying there will be no teachers. That’s all.

So, teacher PP: once again, thank you for your three years. I’m sorry teaching is this way.[/quote]

Critical thinking isn't a strong suit for you?

The very notion of private insurance being "taken over" by private insurance is quite telling. This would be both illegal and unworkable, and obviously will never happen. So the pp wasn't commenting on what she *thinks* will happen-- she is commenting on what she *wishes* could happen.

Yet, despite not being constrained by reality, she still chose to make that one of her key points about the current and future state of public education. Why do you think that is? And what do you think she imagines that would look like?[/quote]

Ugh. Perhaps this isn’t about you at all. I suspect she is merely making a comment on the fact that, like her, teachers are fleeing from the sinking ship that is education. What happens when there are no more teachers to insult, disrespect, and overwork? Perhaps she made that comment because she works within SpEd and it was on her mind. Your premise that she is WISHING for that to happen doesn’t fit. Why would she wish for that? My guess is she wishes for a job that doesn’t drive people to tears by 3pm.

So again: not about you. This is about a worn out teacher and nothing more. Instead of tearing apart a teacher who actually tried to help children for a few years, why don’t you suit up and teach? Then you may have a better understanding of this poster’s comment.[/quote]

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