the two teachers i mentioned weren't bad as far as i know.
one of them is the best friend of one of my old co-workers. use to work as a CSR for tech support. from what i was told, it was an effort just to get the kids to sit down and listen. and she lost count of how many kids threatened law suits for getting homework, their bad grades etc.
the other was one of my sis's best friends and i know personally.
in both cases tho... yeah, the school boards ordered them to pass the failing students anyway. (the school loses grant money for failing kids... and in the second teacher's case, the failing kids also had rich parents who were able to "influence" the board)
only otner scary thing i can think of is... there was a 5th grade teacher in my old theatre group. she was horrified to find out that the school had stopped teaching spelling for the earlier grades. One day she brought in a pile of stories her kids had written... and we sat around trying to figure out what these weirdly spelled words were suppose to be. All I remember was... I figured out "hight hill" was "high heel". ... just wait until these kids have to write resumes. (a lot of companies won't bother reading them if there's spelling errors)
one of them is the best friend of one of my old co-workers. use to work as a CSR for tech support. from what i was told, it was an effort just to get the kids to sit down and listen. and she lost count of how many kids threatened law suits for getting homework, their bad grades etc.
the other was one of my sis's best friends and i know personally.
in both cases tho... yeah, the school boards ordered them to pass the failing students anyway. (the school loses grant money for failing kids... and in the second teacher's case, the failing kids also had rich parents who were able to "influence" the board)
only otner scary thing i can think of is... there was a 5th grade teacher in my old theatre group. she was horrified to find out that the school had stopped teaching spelling for the earlier grades. One day she brought in a pile of stories her kids had written... and we sat around trying to figure out what these weirdly spelled words were suppose to be. All I remember was... I figured out "hight hill" was "high heel". ... just wait until these kids have to write resumes. (a lot of companies won't bother reading them if there's spelling errors)
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