Am I being educated in the best educational high schools in America? Every time a student slips it's an automatic suspension. Are re really caring about what are students are learning? Teachers teach and don't enjoy their job so how can I expect to learn anything. A teacher made a comment that "i don't have to stop what i'm doing and help students!" How can this be acceptable? We need an educational system that is devoted to helping and preparing students not focused strictly on discipline.
Administration focus too much on discipline instead of focusing on education. If students reaming at home how are they being educated? No child left behind does not constitute the fact that students aren't learning. The only thing that Illinois can say is that we are smarter than Texas, a state that is three times our size. WOW! way to go. At the rate that our educational system is going i really feel sorry for our future. Sports are important to school “social” reputations but so player actually have no clue that in order to play college sports it take more than skill. High school students don't know that in order to play in college you have to take classes and get a degree! I say that students are receiving toilet education, education that has no effect on our everyday lives. So why am i being rejected because my teacher would prefer to get drunk and just get a check than to teach me??
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In high school I hated it, because I hated being treated like a job.
Sure, it's your job, but why did you pick this one? Obviously not because you care about your students.
High school teachers have god-complexes, in a lot of cases. They think they are hot-shit to put it less nicely, so they don't think what the student thinks or says matters. The saddest part of this, however, is that it really doesn't matter. No one listens to the students. Their opinions or outlooks on subjects are just squashed by what the teacher thinks, and the teacher's opinions.
This is one of the reasons why I want to become a teacher. I may just be a drop in the bucket, but I hope to provide a more open-minded education for students.
Ahh yes. I totally feel this way too. At my school we have a five day policy about missing class. If we miss more than five days, we have to go through a hardship process and if we don't have a doctor's note from every day we missed, we fail all of the classes we took that semester. I would almost understand this if the school spent half as much time worrying about the actual quality of the education as they did trying to uphold this policy.
I think a big issue is when they overlook "problem" students and prevent them from having a chance at anything that gives them a little hope. In my school athletes need to keep their grades up and cannot play unless they do. For some kids, sports or other interests are the only things keeping them in school and working hard...if they start to slip and are prevented from doing these things, they drop out in many cases. Budget cuts in our school are making us get rid of programs such as wood/auto shop, classes where kids who might otherwise drop out can learn a useful trade.
There is too much focus on test scores and upholding certain regulations rather than what school is supposed to be about- learning!
"They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." -Andy Warhol
All my high school cares about now is test scores; they're so desperate to raise them that they have raffles for those who score high or improve,and attendance on those days is mandatory. Teachers have almost no creativity because they are so restricted by guidelines and curriculums which are also based on test scores. We're no longer seen as students - just numbers.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/blonde-bickerman
It is sad to have to say but most teachers today become teachers because it is a guarenteed job. More than 50% of teachers leave the field before they have taught for five years. Many well-qualified and potentially life changing teachers do not go into the field because the pay is so low, benefits are minimal, and the amount of work is much more extensive than a number of other higher paying jobs.
I feel the affects of this are being felt and this will change, hopefully sometime soon, but an under appreciation for teaching is something I feel will always be around.