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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I would love is a teacher who is brave enough to write an expose of FCPS.  Maybe someone who is planning to quit anyway.  I really don't think the general public has any clue what it's actually like these days in the "responsive classroom."[/quote]

I've been expose-ing fcps on this board since I quit 10 years ago.  It's pointless.  The system is so broken there.  Parents have no idea, and the county likes it that way.  If you read through these forums you'll see many many teachers posting the same things I have been saying.  It's not a secret.  But it's so bureaucratic that nothing can be changed.  The whole top-down structure where all the decisions are made by people who are basically politicians and haven't been in a classroom in 30 years, and teachers are powerless.

Not sure why you are targeting RC though - it's just one of a million programs that gets adopted for a while and then replaced with something new a few years later.  It's one of the better programs FCPS has, actually.[/quote]

I'm targeting RC because it's a trendy program that simply doesn't work.  Kids with behavioral issues continue to disrupt the class because they know there are no consequences.  Kids who really want to learn continue being ignored while the teacher deals with the troublemakers.  Rinse and repeat.  RC does no one any favors.  Troublemakers should be immediately dealt with, with real consequences (missing recess, actually getting yelled at by the principal, parents called, etc.).  Babying them along and trying to relate to them emotionally is a waste of time for everyone.  Teachers shouldn't be expected to devote their time to soothing the troublemakers back into good behavior (which does not work) at the expense of the other kids who simply want to learn.[/quote]

Parent of a rule following child who loves to learn here - my kid doesn't want you yelling at her peers, even if they're being a pain in the butt. She had a teacher like that and was terrified of her. It was her worst year at school ever. And my kid is the good kid. No one was yelling at her and being mean to her, but she couldn't handle the teeny tiny remote possibility of her teacher going off on her like she did other kids. Consider the stress you are causing other children when you yell at their peers. [/quote]

Let's just hope PP isn't a teacher, since they think that trying to relate to children emotionally is a "waste of time."  [/quote]

I don’t care if she relates to my kids emotionally.  That’s not her job.  [/quote]

Wow...it is actually but this statement says a lot.[/quote]

It’s interesting that you think that is a teacher’s job.  I want my DD’s teacher to be kind and fair, but I don’t expect her to be a therapist.  [/quote]

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Especially with 25-30 other students who need attention.  A teacher does not have time to sit down and have a heart to heart with one kid, while ignoring all the others.  Especially if that one kid is chronically misbehaving and disrupting class.  That kid needs to be removed.[/quote]

Ok, removed to where? The same crazy posters on DCUM are parents and threaten to sue for denying access to an education.[/quote]

When ironically, it's their chronically misbehaving kid(s) who are denying all the other kids access to an education.[/quote]

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