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[MushyMushy]

All those who are employed as teachers that obviously do not like children or care about their needs, please get another job.

I have a teaching degree and am one month away from my special ed license...I love kids, even those that are challenging. I champion for the underdogs.

I just do not understand why SOME of those in education do not seem to have that passion for kids?!?!

I'm starting to understand the rationale behind home schooling.........

Who wants to start a school with me????????

ME!

The things I've heard in the teacher's lounge would curl your toes.

 

[missypie]

Agreed. I taught school (also special ed) for three semesters before deciding to go to law school. I discovered that I just didn't have a love for all kids. I love my own dearly, but I'm not too wild about lots of other kids.

My daughter's geometry teacher spends a lot of class time telling them how smart he is and how he could make a lot more money at a different job. He's a terrible teacher and a major jerk. To him I say, "TAKE the next lucrative job offer that comes your way!"

 

[Disney4Drew]

ME!

The things I've heard in the teacher's lounge would curl your toes.

This is the reason I never sit in the lounge. Never have...never will.

 

[kbkids]

We've got three in 2nd grade that you have just described to a tee!! DS goes to 2nd grade next year, and I'm already stressing. We have 12 units, so there's 9 other teachers he could get, but what if .... I'm always said if my child got one of them, I would be homeschooling that year, and I so hope that doesn't happen, as I feel my kids do better at school than they would with me at home - but I'll bring him home in a heart beat if he winds up in one of those classes. I was talking to one of the moms this morning who has a child in one of those classes. She said her son cries every morning when he wakes up. He told her yesterday that she won't even call him the right name. She calls him Marcus - his name is Marshall - seriously, you can't get that right by now??? Alll three are at retirement age and why they don't is beyond me!!!

 

[Christine]

Do you think that they started out liking kids but then had too many issues over the years and it simply drove them over the edge? Just wondering??

I did have a 2nd grade teacher (this was back in the 60s) that was just downright nasty. I was the meekest, quietest child you could imagine and always a good student. One day we were sitting doing drawing and crafts (imagine that in the 2nd grade--nowadays they are prepping for their SATs )--anyway, I made this really cool picture (I thought) and wanted to give it to my teacher. I took it up to her and said "Here Mrs. Simpson, I made this for you." She said "Why would I want that thing?"

 

[chris1gill]

Well, first I agree with you... I like to think teachers went into teaching for the right reason, but somewhere along the line just really got burned out... it's obvious that some teachers shouldn't be teaching, and why they do it is not really a mystery, but it's not to benefit the kids....

But, I would also like to believe there are good teachers out there that we never recognize too, and for those teachers, I applaud them and their efforts. We never forget to thank those teachers our kids have had that have helped them or gone the extra mile. I'm sure they don't see nearly enough of that...

 

[kbkids]

Do you think that they started out liking kids but then had too many issues over the years and it simply drove them over the edge? Just wondering??

I did have a 2nd grade teacher (this was back in the 60s) that was just downright nasty. I was the meekest, quietest child you could imagine and always a good student. One day we were sitting doing drawing and crafts (imagine that in the 2nd grade--nowadays they are prepping for their SATs )--anyway, I made this really cool picture (I thought) and wanted to give it to my teacher. I took it up to her and said "Here Mrs. Simpson, I made this for you." She said "Why would I want that thing?"

How sad!! I had an awful 2nd grade teacher too, and I've never forgotten it. I guess that's why I'm stressing so much over the possibility of my son getting one of these mean old ladies. DS has just finally this year started speaking out in class, raising his hand, trying to participate. Up until this year, he has been extremely shy, got his feelings hurt very easily, just very touchy!! He's made amazing improvements, and I know if he gets placed in one of these classes, he will digress, and I'm just not going to give them the chance to do that to him. I'll be having a talk with the principal at the end of the year this year, and I hope she takes my comments seriously.

 

[mirthmaiden]

It is sad when that happens. I hear a lot of people talk about wanting to be a teacher because they want summers off. Clueless.

 

[kbkids]

Well, first I agree with you... I like to think teachers went into teaching for the right reason, but somewhere along the line just really got burned out... it's obvious that some teachers shouldn't be teaching, and why they do it is not really a mystery, but it's not to benefit the kids....

But, I would also like to believe there are good teachers out there that we never recognize too, and for those teachers, I applaud them and their efforts. We never forget to thank those teachers our kids have had that have helped them or gone the extra mile. I'm sure they don't see nearly enough of that...

Absolutely, DD's 2nd grade teacher was amazing!! I stressed all summer that she would end up in one of the three classes that I was terrified of, but she got the most wonderful teacher I could imagine. She actually ended up getting teacher of the year that year. DD's best year by far has been with her. She's in 4th grade now, and honestly, not crazy about this teacher, but I can deal with her. At least she's pleasant - just disagree with some of grading policies, etc.

But I just cannot put up with teachers belittling the kids and screaming at them. They're in 2nd grade for goodness sake!!

 

[hentob]

I did have a 2nd grade teacher (this was back in the 60s) that was just downright nasty. I was the meekest, quietest child you could imagine and always a good student. One day we were sitting doing drawing and crafts (imagine that in the 2nd grade--nowadays they are prepping for their SATs )--anyway, I made this really cool picture (I thought) and wanted to give it to my teacher. I took it up to her and said "Here Mrs. Simpson, I made this for you." She said "Why would I want that thing?"

Is she still alive? If so, I would anywho.com her, and write her a letter about that incident.

I think the fact that you still remember it speaks volumes about how that must of bothered you as a child

What a cruel human being she was

 

[Christine]

Is she still alive? If so, I would anywho.com her, and write her a letter about that incident.

I think the fact that you still remember it speaks volumes about how that must of bothered you as a child

What a cruel human being she was

I doubt it. I am, ahem, 43 and this must have been 1969 or so. Looking back and looking at pictures, she had to be in her 50s at that time. So, I'm sure she's long gone.

Anyway, she was the most miserable teacher ever. Never screamed at anyone, though. Just never, ever smiled and you could tell just didn't want to be there. I think that up until that time, my first two teachers were so great and I just thought that I could "crack" her, you know. So, I tried. Just to try to please her.

I think when I took the picture to her and she responded like that I was more stunned and shocked than anything. I don't remember crying over it but, you're right, I've NEVER forgotten it or her face.

 

[PrincessTiff]

Agreed. I taught school (also special ed) for three semesters before deciding to go to law school. I discovered that I just didn't have a love for all kids. I love my own dearly, but I'm not too wild about lots of other kids.

I agree. I worked in a daycare for a short period of time. Horrible experience, I would consider it worse than the retail job I had worked beforehand.

 

[DVC Sadie]

All those who are employed as teachers that obviously do not like children or care about their needs, please get another job.

I have a teaching degree and am one month away from my special ed license...I love kids, even those that are challenging. I champion for the underdogs.

I just do not understand why SOME of those in education do not seem to have that passion for kids?!?!

I'm starting to understand the rationale behind home schooling.........

Who wants to start a school with me????????

ITA with your frustration. I don't want to help start a school but if you decide to follow through please let me know. I would be more than happy to donate money to help your school succeed.

 

[JunieJay]

We must be really lucky with our teachers and schools because in all the years my kids have been in school I've only encountered ONE bad teacher. Some have been better than others, but only ONE dud. Most seem to be really dedicated. Reading the DIS makes me realize how lucky we are!

 

[diz8297]

Geez, there must be something about the 2nd grade because my ds is having a miserable year!! We have parent/teacher conferences tomorrow and immediately after, we are meeting with the principal because this situation is getting unbearable. I'm not one of those parents who says "not my kid" by any means. But she is beyond the pale.

 

[Pigeon]

I think that a lot of them start out liking kids, and for many of them, it's not the kids they hate, it's the other crap that just sucks the life out of them. NCLB is responsible for some of the best teachers I've known getting out of the job.

 

[tiggerlover]

I think it takes a special person to be a teacher and I applaud teachers for the work that they do. However, if a teacher doesn't like kids they really don't belong teaching. My son is in 6th grade this year and we have been very fortunate that he has only had two teachers that DH and I have not cared for. On the flip side of that I can name at least three if not five that have been fabulous!

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

Don't EVEN get me started on the teachers that get that mindset the kids that don't get the highest grades will fail in school and in life. I am a firm believer that there two different learners...right brain and left brain. There was this High school math teacher that condemned our DS to a life of stupidity. I grew up with a very low self-esteem so I know how it is. She did absolutely nothing to help our son (totally subjective on my part). The only thing she did in that hellish school year was to leave our DS with a piss poor self esteem. The School Board eventually did not renew her contract. Rant over.

 

[barkley]

All those who are employed as teachers that obviously do not like children or care about their needs, please get another job.

I have a teaching degree and am one month away from my special ed license...I love kids, even those that are challenging. I champion for the underdogs.

I just do not understand why SOME of those in education do not seem to have that passion for kids?!?!

I'm starting to understand the rationale behind home schooling.........

Who wants to start a school with me????????

until perfect students with perfect parents in an environment of perfect laws administering education occurs-i suggest that no school will be what everyone wants for every child or teacher.

homeschooling permits a parent to administer and oversee education in the manner in which they believe is perfect-not nesc. in the manner that any other parent would agree is perfect for their individual child or any experienced professional educator would agree is perfect for a group of individual children all with different needs, wants and values.

there are 'good' teachers and 'bad' teachers-but for everyone of them, they are teaching likely a minimum of 20 students every year within there is a number of 'good' kids and 'bad' kids (yes there are 'bad' kids-the 3rd grader i had who brought a buck knife to school to retaliate against the kindergartener who 'looked' at him the 'wrong way' was one of them), and as many 'good' and 'bad' parents (as in the parents of one the students of my former peer who brought a shot gun to the school when the teacher reported to cps about their 2nd graders essay that told of 'how my uncle touches me 'bad', and my mom and dad said don't tell anyone' ).