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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher it seems [b]to me[/b] like there is a "war on teachers" coming from politicians who [b]don't[/b] want to fund them, principals who want to fire them if they don't inflate the grades for the ones who [b]don't[/b] show up, and even the [b]union, which[/b] won't protect them for doing a tough job when the kids want to watch movies and play videogames all class.  Kids don't want to work, principals don't want to work [b]and they make teachers[/b] do a [b]stressed-out[/b] song and [b]dance, and[/b] then pressure them to [b]fraudulently send as many people into student debt. It[/b] is a big corrupt machine of debt creation.  Then teachers are fired. The reason no one wants to teach is because they hear the horror stories.  MCPS is the worst.  Even if you are a great teacher the behavior of the kids sucks because [b]there[/b] is no professionalism or support coming out of administration.  You're basically [b]halfway[/b] fired on the day that you're hired.  [/quote]

Fixed it for you, "teacher." If you are, in fact, a teacher, I'm not surprised that MCPS administrators might be rethinking your employment. [/quote]

Wow. The post from the teacher sounds like it truly is from a teacher. I assume the 2nd poster replying to the teacher is one of those parents who hates teachers, thinks it’s an easy job (ha ha ha!!!), and wants her darling little ones to get passing grades even if they do nothing and they’re the type of parent who is totally fine with their kids doing nothing.

Doing nothing and passing won’t prepare your kids for future college or employment. It’s too bad so many parents and admin don’t get that. [/quote]

I'm a young teacher and the things the first poster said started to dawn on me a few weeks ago. The disconnect between the job I thought I was getting into and the job I've gotten into are frankly pretty awful, and I will be getting out whenever I can.

I don't think that the higher ups set out to let failing students pass, but I presume there are accreditation and other state or federal-level pressures that put 100% of the burden of having students pass on the school system and therefore on the teachers.  We have students coming to us from MS with grades that are unimaginable given their paltry or sometimes total lack of knowledge. We also have students who are about to graduate and are headed to college and aren't even performing at the middle school level in my subject.

The common thread is that they don't listen, don't study, don't do homework and don't seek help, except sometimes the last week of the quarter  when they want to know "how I can improve my grade" or worse, "what can WE do about my grade", as if it suddenly were my responsibility to get them to pass. Many of these kids are not deprived--they have other priorities, which often include hours and hours of sports outside of school. I guess they know the drill?

Imagine being a doctor with a long-term alcoholic patient, who demands that you give them a clean bill of health in spite of their advanced cirrhosis.

The parents who are pushing for higher grades to send these students to college are fooling themselves.

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It's frustrating for parents, too, because how are we to know that our children aren't learning the subject matter if they come home with good grades and pass? It's not like in ES when you can see that your child didn't learn how to read or doesn't know their multiplication tables.[/quote]

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