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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 153959"><p>I don't think this article is addressing so much the average teacher who tries her best with the students she has. I think this article is addressing teachers who just shouldn't be teaching, whether because they don't have the talent or the motivation.</p><p></p><p>For example, my 8th and 9th grade English teacher (small school in upstate NY - grades 7-12 in one building) was also the golf coach. He didn't teach except for the one day per school year he was observed by the principal. He assigned stories to read out of our books and to answer the questions at the end and we turned them in. We never talked about the story, never went over the questions, nothing. I had been in Honors English in the school before that and I had a hard time with the questions, but if you asked you didn't get an answer. He spent the entire class bs'ing. Literally. He also assigned vocabulary out of our workbook and we had to look up the word and write 3 sentences for each and then we had a test every week. That was it. There was absolutely ZERO class instruction. I'm not exaggerating. But, he had tenure. When I moved out of the SD, I spent the rest of the year playing catch up with the other students. Even if I hadn't moved out of the SD, I would have eventually gotten a teacher that actually taught and would have still had to play catch up. In all of my other classes, I was ahead of the other students when I moved.</p><p></p><p>This year my son has an English teacher fresh out of college. I think he has a lot of good ideas and he tries really hard, but he is 1) very scattered and 2) is teaching way over the heads of his students. Over 1/2 of his students are failing, including my son. Given that there are only 2 teachers that teach 11th grade English and given that my son is going to have to take it again next year along with 12th grade English, do you think I want that teacher at the school next year and take my chances that my son will get him? easy child's history teacher is also brand new this year and they had a rough first quarter (meaning all of this teacher's students), but he was able to identify what areas of his teaching and assigning work to correct and still make the kids accountable for their work. My son had an F the first quarter. He has a B in that class now.</p><p></p><p>Absolutely teachers need to be held accountable just as we all are at our jobs. If we are not effective, we no longer have a job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 153959"] I don't think this article is addressing so much the average teacher who tries her best with the students she has. I think this article is addressing teachers who just shouldn't be teaching, whether because they don't have the talent or the motivation. For example, my 8th and 9th grade English teacher (small school in upstate NY - grades 7-12 in one building) was also the golf coach. He didn't teach except for the one day per school year he was observed by the principal. He assigned stories to read out of our books and to answer the questions at the end and we turned them in. We never talked about the story, never went over the questions, nothing. I had been in Honors English in the school before that and I had a hard time with the questions, but if you asked you didn't get an answer. He spent the entire class bs'ing. Literally. He also assigned vocabulary out of our workbook and we had to look up the word and write 3 sentences for each and then we had a test every week. That was it. There was absolutely ZERO class instruction. I'm not exaggerating. But, he had tenure. When I moved out of the SD, I spent the rest of the year playing catch up with the other students. Even if I hadn't moved out of the SD, I would have eventually gotten a teacher that actually taught and would have still had to play catch up. In all of my other classes, I was ahead of the other students when I moved. This year my son has an English teacher fresh out of college. I think he has a lot of good ideas and he tries really hard, but he is 1) very scattered and 2) is teaching way over the heads of his students. Over 1/2 of his students are failing, including my son. Given that there are only 2 teachers that teach 11th grade English and given that my son is going to have to take it again next year along with 12th grade English, do you think I want that teacher at the school next year and take my chances that my son will get him? easy child's history teacher is also brand new this year and they had a rough first quarter (meaning all of this teacher's students), but he was able to identify what areas of his teaching and assigning work to correct and still make the kids accountable for their work. My son had an F the first quarter. He has a B in that class now. Absolutely teachers need to be held accountable just as we all are at our jobs. If we are not effective, we no longer have a job. [/QUOTE]
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