Some kids do better at home. Has a lot to do with personality and special gifts. I will say the hardest part about teaching in a public school is when the kids have no respect for teachers as their parents have no respect for education. Discipline is very limited in nature and having kids in the class with no regard for the fact that the…
Some kids do better at home. Has a lot to do with personality and special gifts. I will say the hardest part about teaching in a public school is when the kids have no respect for teachers as their parents have no respect for education. Discipline is very limited in nature and having kids in the class with no regard for the fact that they are making it impossible for other kids to learn the lesson is misery. For everyone. Private schools can kick them out. Or parents have the option, as they did with Donald Trump, to send them to a military academy If they are so impossible. (that translates to rich kids in correction mode).
Meridee, I am sure some kids can do better at home particularly if their parent is an educator. Others, not so much. A really bright parent of one of my students decided to try home schooling and set everything up in her house. That lasted about 6 months. She and the family moved to another district where her child was accepted into a magnet school where she did quite well. It would be great if all public schools and districts had sufficient resources to offer children and their families, interesting and appropriate options. Also, every school should have at least one behavior specialist who can work with those students who are disruptive, to help find the right setting and behavior incentives to make school a positive experience for them and the rest of the students. If there were a wil, we could do this!
My daughter worked in the capacity of behavior specialist at a Jr. High and an elementary school. What she found in her lower socioeconomic schools were parents in gangs who had kids who suffered from anger issues due to loss, fear, and neglect. This is the direction our publics schools are headed, this is a big need area. In this instance, the work was so demoralizing, not because of the results she had with kids but because of the really antagonistic people at the administrative level who resented even providing a room for her to use, as a district employee, not a teacher at the school. She moved on when it was announced by the district that her program was not being funded after the next year. She had no choice. I still don''t understand what happened and have trouble with the Calif. Legislature for putting a carrot on a stick and then eating it themselves. The district completely absorbed their community centered niche, put three people out of work who were dedicated for three years, to run other school programs, which with a grant is technically illegal, so you see the frustrations. The state was moving in the right direction, hopefully not all districts mess up like hers did. As you can see this is new ground in a lot of areas. It is shakey ground too.
Meridee, wow, it seems things are not all that different between CA and PA. For a few years, we did have behavior specialists who worked with our students who are struggling with anger, fear, impulse control, etc. They worked with teachers to help with classroom management too, and our schools improved significantly in all areas. Just as you describe, their jobs were eliminated. A couple of them became "climate managers" in schools. Some of the duties overlapped, but the behavior support was the part usually dropped. I have heard relatively often these days from a variety of sources that there is a movement to keep an under-class in this nation so they can do the jobs "nobody else wants to do" and will have to do them because that is all the work they will be qualified for. And a bonus, fewer immigrants can be allowed in. I am thinking those saying this may be on the right track. Those targeted are mostly people of color and poor white children. I guess they want to be sure the project is not seen as racist and xenophobic as it actually is. I am sorry your daughter couldn't continue her work because I know it made a difference. I saw how that work counts. You must be truly proud that your daughter chose such a challenging field and worked so hard to make a positive difference. Kudos to her!
I'm so proud of my girl she is very dedicated and good at what she does. Agree about the keeping people down thing. It only produces anger and I think we are better than that. Unfortunately that anger exists. We could be doing what our white neighbors do and drive our granddaughter to a predominantly white Jr. High. My daughter believes in being the change she wants to see and has our granddaughter attending our assigned school which is predominantly Latino. She is blonde. She is not happy experiencing racism herself. It seems cruel to me to expect her to go there because of that. She already suffered through an elementary school situation like that. But the kids were younger and nicer. We are at a crossroads, the district offers an independent learning environment, it's 4 days with independent study and 1 day a week where they show up in class and have to show work, see what's next, etc. It may be how we finish Jr. High. I am so glad our district offers this option. So school funds stay where they should and everyone should be happy.
Some kids do better at home. Has a lot to do with personality and special gifts. I will say the hardest part about teaching in a public school is when the kids have no respect for teachers as their parents have no respect for education. Discipline is very limited in nature and having kids in the class with no regard for the fact that they are making it impossible for other kids to learn the lesson is misery. For everyone. Private schools can kick them out. Or parents have the option, as they did with Donald Trump, to send them to a military academy If they are so impossible. (that translates to rich kids in correction mode).
Meridee, I am sure some kids can do better at home particularly if their parent is an educator. Others, not so much. A really bright parent of one of my students decided to try home schooling and set everything up in her house. That lasted about 6 months. She and the family moved to another district where her child was accepted into a magnet school where she did quite well. It would be great if all public schools and districts had sufficient resources to offer children and their families, interesting and appropriate options. Also, every school should have at least one behavior specialist who can work with those students who are disruptive, to help find the right setting and behavior incentives to make school a positive experience for them and the rest of the students. If there were a wil, we could do this!
My daughter worked in the capacity of behavior specialist at a Jr. High and an elementary school. What she found in her lower socioeconomic schools were parents in gangs who had kids who suffered from anger issues due to loss, fear, and neglect. This is the direction our publics schools are headed, this is a big need area. In this instance, the work was so demoralizing, not because of the results she had with kids but because of the really antagonistic people at the administrative level who resented even providing a room for her to use, as a district employee, not a teacher at the school. She moved on when it was announced by the district that her program was not being funded after the next year. She had no choice. I still don''t understand what happened and have trouble with the Calif. Legislature for putting a carrot on a stick and then eating it themselves. The district completely absorbed their community centered niche, put three people out of work who were dedicated for three years, to run other school programs, which with a grant is technically illegal, so you see the frustrations. The state was moving in the right direction, hopefully not all districts mess up like hers did. As you can see this is new ground in a lot of areas. It is shakey ground too.
Meridee, wow, it seems things are not all that different between CA and PA. For a few years, we did have behavior specialists who worked with our students who are struggling with anger, fear, impulse control, etc. They worked with teachers to help with classroom management too, and our schools improved significantly in all areas. Just as you describe, their jobs were eliminated. A couple of them became "climate managers" in schools. Some of the duties overlapped, but the behavior support was the part usually dropped. I have heard relatively often these days from a variety of sources that there is a movement to keep an under-class in this nation so they can do the jobs "nobody else wants to do" and will have to do them because that is all the work they will be qualified for. And a bonus, fewer immigrants can be allowed in. I am thinking those saying this may be on the right track. Those targeted are mostly people of color and poor white children. I guess they want to be sure the project is not seen as racist and xenophobic as it actually is. I am sorry your daughter couldn't continue her work because I know it made a difference. I saw how that work counts. You must be truly proud that your daughter chose such a challenging field and worked so hard to make a positive difference. Kudos to her!
I'm so proud of my girl she is very dedicated and good at what she does. Agree about the keeping people down thing. It only produces anger and I think we are better than that. Unfortunately that anger exists. We could be doing what our white neighbors do and drive our granddaughter to a predominantly white Jr. High. My daughter believes in being the change she wants to see and has our granddaughter attending our assigned school which is predominantly Latino. She is blonde. She is not happy experiencing racism herself. It seems cruel to me to expect her to go there because of that. She already suffered through an elementary school situation like that. But the kids were younger and nicer. We are at a crossroads, the district offers an independent learning environment, it's 4 days with independent study and 1 day a week where they show up in class and have to show work, see what's next, etc. It may be how we finish Jr. High. I am so glad our district offers this option. So school funds stay where they should and everyone should be happy.