The whole thing about content delievery--yep. If a kid does something and it's not the way the teacher's manual says, they are wrong.
More on the
Difficult Teacher thread.
... and I'm about to.
Now dealing with a dismissive, power-tripping teacher that has less than no interest in her STUDENTS in a class that my daughter MUST have to graduate. An unweighted class in which the grading is so incomprehensible and seemingly capricious that it poses a serious risk to her in terms of scholarship awards this year.
This teacher is wrapping herself in a mantle of professional alphabet soup and titles, and is ignoring the fact that not one, but TWO subject experts that my DD's been consulting with, have declared her grading and commentary to be nonsensical, overly harsh, or even just plain WRONG.
I can't say I'm disillusioned about the public school system, because that would mean I actually had illusions about it in the first place, and my mother taught me better than that.
Well, that's the thing, isn't it? I've been horrified by it at this point, and I'm probably the most difficult person on earth to SHOCK about this industry/profession/environment.
It's gotten
bad. REALLY bad.
I used to think that people who wanted to Holt the entire system were crazy right-wing wackos. I still think that. But I'm starting to agree that the system that we have NOW, in 2013, is worthy of precisely that sentiment. The corporate players who are calling most of the shots in school C&I need to be nuked, for a start. While Common Core was a great set of ideas, it's never going to work with teachers who are mere automatons, and that's exactly what we have when they are punished for deviations from "the script" (and they are)... and as long as "C&I/assessment specialists" are writing the material for classroom use, rather than people who, you know, actually
work every day with STUDENTS who are real human beings, this is going nowhere good.
