For two straight days, drive time AM righty squawker Mark Belling has ranted about teachers: they whine...they are overpaid...they get summers off...they teach too few students per classroom...they are keeping taxes high, and so on.
I've got friends, and an in-law, who teach or have taught in big city school systems, including MPS, and it occurred to me that Belling wouldn't last a week in your typical city school.
A week? Not even a day:
Teachers should get medals for earning relatively low pay, getting up at the crack of dawn, handling/managing/teaching loads of kids from diverse backgrounds and from families with problems few of us can even imagine, working on lessons and grading papers in the evening, paying for extra supplies out-of-pocket - - day in and day out.
I'd challenge Belling to work out an arrangement with an MPS school for a week of guest teaching. I guarantee he couldn't handle it.
Scape-goating teachers is talk radio bottom-feeding.
Why are you backing a system that can not or will not get 50% of Black and Hispanics a basic education?
ReplyDeleteIs the Democratic party so bent on making the kids today the sheep of tomorrow (Vote Bread and Circuses the rich will pay!)
Even with Obama's new green jobs coming one will have to know how to read write and do simple math.
Wish the ALCU would sue MPS for the harm they do to kids
The teachers I know in MPS are doing a great job in difficult circumstances and I see no value in bashing them.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the teachers. It's MPS and how it run it's self into the ground.
ReplyDeleteStill the fact remains the kids are not learning, that is a huge issue and must be fixed.
Employers will not hire workers without a basic understanding.