Anonymous
Post 09/12/2011 23:29     Subject: what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:Our kindergarten teacher could not manage active boys, and when my son was not making any progress she didn't notice/didn't care. She also wrote kids off and stopped caring about their progress.


same my teacher does this too
Anonymous
Post 09/12/2011 19:35     Subject: what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am an amazing teacher (preschool) and always have parent requests for kids to be in my class. I am also pp 20.25. AND I am ttc # 1 via ivf. To the pp, your comment is ignorant and hurtful, imo.




Don't worry about it. PP 7:19 is just plain wrong. Of course you are great teacher. I can tell just by reading your other comments.


Thanks!! =)
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2011 22:32     Subject: Re:what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers that are not able to speak, or write in the english language.


Let me help you--
You provided an incomplete sentence.
Since you're referring to people, you should use "who" instead of "that."
"English" should be capitalized.
You do not need a comma.

You're welcome!


I did not thank you. You must be a teacher...ugh, sad and sorry.


I'm not the PP whom you are attempting to slam. However, I am a teacher, and when you attack someone's English skills while making dreadful mistakes yourself, you look foolish.


I often make terrible grammatical errors. Still, I confess that I have misgivings when my child's teacher makes similar errors repeatedly. I want my child's teacher to educate my child so that he does not make the same errors that I do. I know that my attitude is unrealistic.

ugh, sad, and sorry . . . You must NOT be a teacher.


I'm the educator who posted the corrections. I meant the post to be sort of a light-hearted but facetious response, but obviously it was viewed as rude by the intial poster. Thanks for supporting me! :0)



You're welcome. I'm happy to support a colleague!
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2011 17:15     Subject: Re:what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers that are not able to speak, or write in the english language.


Let me help you--
You provided an incomplete sentence.
Since you're referring to people, you should use "who" instead of "that."
"English" should be capitalized.
You do not need a comma.

You're welcome!


I did not thank you. You must be a teacher...ugh, sad and sorry.


I'm not the PP whom you are attempting to slam. However, I am a teacher, and when you attack someone's English skills while making dreadful mistakes yourself, you look foolish.

ugh, sad, and sorry . . . You must NOT be a teacher.


I'm the educator who posted the corrections. I meant the post to be sort of a light-hearted but facetious response, but obviously it was viewed as rude by the intial poster. Thanks for supporting me! :0)



You're welcome. I'm happy to support a colleague!
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2011 15:54     Subject: what makes a bad teacher?
I taught many years ago and I think it's easier to be a good teacher when you don't have kids. I did cartwheels for parents and kids. I stayed late. I spent a lot of my own money to get creative teaching tools. I showered my kids with attention. If I had to teach today I think people would hate me because I have nothing left to give.

Re:bad teachers still teaching. One problem is very few parents are willing to put their complaints into writing either during the school year or once the school year is over. If the teacher sues for being fired, you need plenty of documentation. Private convos with the principal aren't enough.

We have had some wonderful teachers. Here's what the few stinkers did:

-play favorites and get overly chummy with some parents
-humiliate a child with special needs
-talking about confidential information in front of other parents
-bragging about their own children during a conference
-complaining when a class doesn't give them an expensive enough class gift (no joke, when I taught I heard this)
-telling a parent "your kid is being teased and doesn't fit in" without offering any input about what the teacher is trying to do to create a welcoming environment for all
-bringing her own child into school and letting her child be cruel to one of her students
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 21:45     Subject: Re:what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:


I don't get this. Your son flat out lied to you about the assignment book. He also distorted what happened on the first day of school into an issue of the teacher being mean to him rather than her rightly letting him know that he couldn't continue to disrupt the class (10 times on the first day????). And you are graciously going to give HER some time because she's "mean and strict" and possibly a bad teacher,

And your DH was "ready to head straight to school" just on a 6 year old's word that his teacher is "mean"?

Lady, you take the cake.


Wow, thanks for the productive feedback. I really appreciate it. First of all, the reason my dh was so upset was that ds came home crying on his first day. This has NEVER happened since he started school. (he is in 4th now) Did we actually do anything that day? No. We asked ds why he thought he was mean, and began to suspect that his behavior may have had something to do with it. We told him to be absolutely sure that he was making the best impression on the teacher, and following directions. We told him to check his behavior the next day, and indeed, his second day was much better. We told him that if he did not bring his assignment book home from now on, he would lose any screen time that night, as we could not determine if he had finished his homework without the assignments. Once we verified that indeed, he had misunderstood that this book was to stay at school (the teacher admitted that a few children had been confused as she had told them their Reading Journals were to be left at school. That part of the "homework" would be completed on arrival at school, to make sure they were retaining what they had read for homework). Despite that, we stuck to our guns, and he lost his screen time that night as we promised.

I expect my child to behave at school. I have always called him out on that, including this time. Though he is bright, and always gets good grades, he has always struggled with attention and impulsivity. He is 9, and had a great year last year with a strict, but patient teacher.

What upset dh and I was that she yelled at him (and most of the class from what other clasmates parents have told me) for writing an assignment in numbered sentences instead of paragraph form. He said that she did not like him and thought he was stupid (his words not hers). This is not the impression I want my child to have the first day. Especially a child who has always loved school. I ahve no problem with a teacher calling my child out on his behavior.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 17:30     Subject: what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:5.49 R U referring to the first quote (mine) or second quote in the above post?


I was referring to the second post, but I agree with yours as well (in the states that have tenure). I've also taught in a highly regarded private school. I understand what you wrote about no real rights in a private school setting, although I was fortunate to work in one where we were pretty much regarded as one big family. It's was such a supportive teaching environment that we were willing to work for less than one might expect. I do think the second post nailed the reality/difficulty involved in getting rid of poor teachers.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 17:14     Subject: what makes a bad teacher?
5.49 R U referring to the first quote (mine) or second quote in the above post?
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 16:04     Subject: what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tenure! And the other side of the coin is that private school teachers have relatively fewer rights, and virtually no course of action if they are unjustly fired. And sadly this happens more often than you would think....


There's no tenure in VA. I am a public school teacher who has seen my share of bad teachers. I think often times it is laziness on the part of administration because in order to actually let a teacher go, you have to give them poor evaluations, follow up with a plan for improvement, and get into the classrooms of these teachers multiple times to see if they are improving. It takes a lot of work and administrators (at least in my school) just don't seem to have the time or desire to do all that so teachers just stay where they are. Or if they do get let go, they are often just moved to another school. Sad, but very true.


5:49 here. I think you nailed it with your response. I can't think of anything else to add except that some school systems are beginning to "tighten up." In a middle school where I work, two teachers were pressured to resign at the end of the year. Basically, the principal initiated Personal Improvement Plans that were pretty tough.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 15:59     Subject: Re:what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers that are not able to speak, or write in the english language.


Let me help you--
You provided an incomplete sentence.
Since you're referring to people, you should use "who" instead of "that."
"English" should be capitalized.
You do not need a comma.

You're welcome!


I did not thank you. You must be a teacher...ugh, sad and sorry.


I'm not the PP whom you are attempting to slam. However, I am a teacher, and when you attack someone's English skills while making dreadful mistakes yourself, you look foolish.

ugh, sad, and sorry . . . You must NOT be a teacher.


I'm the educator who posted the corrections. I meant the post to be sort of a light-hearted but facetious response, but obviously it was viewed as rude by the intial poster. Thanks for supporting me! :0)

Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 15:23     Subject: Re:what makes a bad teacher?
I can be just as rude in person, too. We are human after all. And we pay taxes just as the "others" do.

Enjoy this rain-free day!

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers that are not able to speak, or write in the english language.


Let me help you--
You provided an incomplete sentence.
Since you're referring to people, you should use "who" instead of "that."
"English" should be capitalized.
You do not need a comma.

You're welcome!


I did not thank you. You must be a teacher...ugh, sad and sorry.


I'm not the PP whom you are attempting to slam. However, I am a teacher, and when you attack someone's English skills while making dreadful mistakes yourself, you look foolish.

ugh, sad, and sorry . . . You must NOT be a teacher.


Are all teachers this rude in private?
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 14:28     Subject: Re:what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers that are not able to speak, or write in the english language.


Let me help you--
You provided an incomplete sentence.
Since you're referring to people, you should use "who" instead of "that."
"English" should be capitalized.
You do not need a comma.

You're welcome!


I did not thank you. You must be a teacher...ugh, sad and sorry.


I'm not the PP whom you are attempting to slam. However, I am a teacher, and when you attack someone's English skills while making dreadful mistakes yourself, you look foolish.

ugh, sad, and sorry . . . You must NOT be a teacher.


Are all teachers this rude in private?
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 14:24     Subject: Re:what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers that are not able to speak, or write in the english language.


Let me help you--
You provided an incomplete sentence.
Since you're referring to people, you should use "who" instead of "that."
"English" should be capitalized.
You do not need a comma.

You're welcome!


I did not thank you. You must be a teacher...ugh, sad and sorry.


I'm not the PP whom you are attempting to slam. However, I am a teacher, and when you attack someone's English skills while making dreadful mistakes yourself, you look foolish.

ugh, sad, and sorry . . . You must NOT be a teacher.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 14:22     Subject: what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tenure! And the other side of the coin is that private school teachers have relatively fewer rights, and virtually no course of action if they are unjustly fired. And sadly this happens more often than you would think....


But how do these horrible teachers last long enough to get tenure? Or, is it that good teachers gain tenure and then knowingly teach badly once they gain tenure. Ew.


You must be an idiot.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2011 08:56     Subject: Re:what makes a bad teacher?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers that are not able to speak, or write in the english language.


Let me help you--
You provided an incomplete sentence.
Since you're referring to people, you should use "who" instead of "that."
"English" should be capitalized.
You do not need a comma.

You're welcome!


I did not thank you. You must be a teacher...ugh, sad and sorry.