Kids Graduations???
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My experience from the woman I work with that I mentioned earlier & others that I have met through her is that the administration is not concerned with education as they are state assessment scores. The reason she pulls double duty as a librarian is that her administrator fired the last woman that had the position to save money replacing her with a college student looking for a job. This new woman is not aware of what it takes to manage a library including selecting and acquiring reading materials. this story could go on, but without someone trained as an educator in a library, a lot can go wrong because little is taught and it becomes a playground not a study space.
As far as my friend who teaches on base, he hates the parents, they come to the teachers complaining of behavior problems that should be dealt with at home. So instead of actually helping children develop, we spends his time disciplining in front of the other children.
As far as tutoring and latchkey and babysitting of children by schools, this is a for profit system now with teachers moonlighting after hours to cover cost of living, the concern is teaching as much as filling the schedule, most of these programs in my area have penalties of $5/minute if you're more than 5 minutes late. the reason the child is in this service anyway is usually because both parents work and are unable to be there for their children immediately after school.
In the past two years of helping these schools, I've decided that most parents think the teachers are supposed to teach, discipline, & nurture while most teachers hate their administration because there is no money for them, their programs, or more teachers.
When i say programs are cut I mean important ones, ones that do separate the more gifted kids from the challenged ones. The elementary school I mentioned earlier that I attended used to have this funding. I remember the mentally challenged kids in helmets trying to make it at their own speed, but they had their own teachers and were separated into different rooms when lessons changed as to not disturb class. I took gifted classed there where we got to dissect a frog and a cat with a guest that explained things to us. Last I heard that that program had been gone for years.
In today's schools in the same area, those students are a burden in the system now because the means to care for them while educating them has been removed. This is a trend I hear more about than see but could easily see it tomorrow if I hit up the elementary school again and ask how to help.
Personally, I blame the parents for the issue of disrespect and not giving the necessary attention needed, not the schools only because children are a choice and not a requirement. i feel bad for children that are born into families that have excuses for their inattentive parenting.
I blame the school system for nickel & diming teachers until they were broke with no resources except their own finances to pull from leaving them with no real options to confront the diversity of students.
I feel it's a system of blame that has teachers sadly and against their will hustling kids through school knowing they haven't absorbed the material but continue to do so to keep the available funding coming in for their own school therefore paycheck.
Education starts at home, a toddler at 2 is a sponge capable of absorbing multiple languages, mathematical concepts, and is developing motor skills that can be applied to musical instruments. if you're a parent or guardian that leaves the responsibility and task of educating your child on the schedule of public schooling, you have no right to complain your child is performing as you'd hoped in the classroom.
- no right to complain your child is *NOT performingalbums