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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It used to be that teaching was one of the best jobs around — decent pay, good work–life balance, and a fulfilling career with three months of paid vacation. Yet when I talk to current teachers, they don’t seem to feel that way anymore in any of these areas.

What exactly has changed in recent years that turned teaching from a dream job into such a difficult one? Do you think teachers now see students, administrators, and parents as ungrateful?[/quote]

Easy. They moved sped into and kept the crazies in general ed. Parents can't even take the time to teach their one or two kids how to sit still, be quiet, and learn. How is it that people expect teachers to do that with 25 kids (probably with a knowledge range of 5 grade levels) when they're not even allowed to punish them?

On the other hand, I do blame teachers a lot because they don't open their mouths and complain loudly, or make their union leaders do it for them. I know many parents that would have defended these teachers and their complaints, because we were making these complaints for them while talking to principals and administrators.[/quote]

We open our mouths all the time. Seriously: all the time. We are often told to stop complaining and to “remember our why.” And opening our mouths often means having admin come down on us. We do it anyway.

Or, in the case of expressing ourselves on this site, we are reminded how easy we have it with our 3 month summer vacations, etc. [/quote]

I'm not questioning whether teachers complain or that most parents are bottom feeders who blame teachers that their kids don't meet expectation. However, I meant teachers and unions don't complain loudly—at PTA and school board meetings; during elections; during contract negotiations; and when bad admin fail up through promotions. The only teachers that usually have anything to say out loud are the ones who rant as they're quitting the profession. Things such as pushing sped into gen ed, getting rid of punishment in school, not failing kids, etc., are common sense things with obvious outcomes.

Parents absolutely need to be blamed more and bad kids need to learn personal responsibility. Rare is the teacher that told us that the other kids in the class were even part of the problem when our kids got in trouble for asking for more difficult work (there is none) or for mimicking the poor behaviors of "protected" sped kids (who face no discipline) because they were bored, had nothing to do for hours in class, and had the unreasonable expectation to be treated the same as the bad kids. Not that the latter was a normal occurrence. But seriously, what has the world become when the worst kids don't get in trouble for terrible things but good kids get in trouble for trivial things?[/quote]

You wrote that your kid behaved poorly. Shouldn’t they have gotten in trouble, then? Why blame it on the other kids, claiming all your kid did was mimic others? Perhaps your kids need to take ownership for their own actions.

From a teacher’s perspective, I hear you excusing away your children’s behavior while dismissing reasons other children may misbehave (like the students with disabilities that you insult above).  
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Are you purposefully being obtuse to troll or is your cognitive ability lacking?

What exactly is the insult to sped kids in a gen ed classroom? Go back and reread s-l-o-w-l-y the last line that was written.

• Bad kids never get in trouble for doing the most horrible things. Would you like me to list the crazy sh!t I directly know of?
• Good kids get in trouble for doing trivial things. Would you like me to make a list of these, too?

Do you not understand the hypocrisy? In the likely case you didn't understand, either punish every kid equally according to severity or don't punish anyone. No cannon fodder. No collateral damage. Stop being a white knight.[/quote]

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