New Head of Teacher's Union Attacks NCLB

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If the 'good' people of the world could evolve to the point of realization that allowing programs to exist that encourage the "breeding of ignorance" SUCH AS, let's see...free apartment, healthcare, help with daycare, college and transportation all for the simple pregnancy of the irresponsible, uneducated, unmarried, women of our day...With absolutely no educational directive to prevent this type of reckless breeding...You get the very distressed lack of funds type of society you deserve for not realizing this simple fact! Where there is lack of knowledge there is much suffering. Why can't you people know this?

Seanna Mendez of MI 4:36AM June 01, 2010

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ZERO! In most cases, especially the more impoverished households.
Which is why teachers are having such a witch of a time trying to educate them. Maybe this lack of jobs will get more mothers at home that will actually try to help educate their offspring for a change..but then again, you can't teach what you don't know. LIKE COMMON SENSE.

Seanna Mendez of MI 9:31AM February 10, 2009

I became a school teacher later in life after I had a lucrative career in sales/marketing. What I have found during my time teaching in today's classrooms is that the job is extremely demanding. In fact, it is the hardest job I have ever had (which says a lot considering my former career). The current climate in schools today has become quite oppressive and hostile towards teachers. Teachers are constantly having to change curriculum and "best practices" because school districts often panic and make changes to accomodate the latest state tests (which are constantly changing). What teachers are seeing is that they are required to teach in a way that will raise their students scores up the highest. It is all about the data and the focus is on how to make the numbers. It has become a very sad state of affairs with stressed out teachers (who are underpaid) and nervous students who are asked to work longer and harder. I work about 55 hours a week and come home stressed out every day. During my summers, I work part time and I attend workshops to keep my teaching certificate updated. The best teachers are the ones who have excellent classroom management and work hard and fast to improve as many students as possible. Teachers must work at a frantic pace in order to get all of their work done. School districts continue to add on responsibilities and take away precious prep time. Teaching is no cake walk and I urge all critics to teach in a Title I public school for just one year. They will find that their stress levels will sky rocket and their health will decline, all in the name of NCLB.

K. Reyes of FL 7:37PM January 15, 2009

Children don't know better to have the responsibility to receive the education. It is the school staff, parents, and others willing to promote, who teaches responsibility to them.

Edward Feagle of AK 1:15AM October 14, 2008

I am sorry for bringing up the issues stated in my last post. I recognize that the quality of education is important.
Issue 1 Apology- We are all qualified to do certain tasks. I view the NCLB as another way to express that qualification. Just as Dimploma is to a GED in measurement in AYP.
Issue 2 Apology- It is the money of the US, and Government. They are helping us to bring that education effectively. I am thankful.
Issue 3 Apology- Politicians and President, and teachers are in their appropiate places. There shouldn't have to be a mix between the two in order for the country to keep running.
Again, I'm sorry to have stirred up any skirmishes. President Bush is our great leader.

Edward Feagle of AK 10:50PM October 13, 2008

I am studying about NCLB, right now just skimming through it. I am looking forward to become an elementary teacher, and I have some issues with it. We are in the generation of the Elementary and Secondary School Education Act. I saw it as just a simple thing. Go to school, learn, take test, get a grade.
Issue #1, I can clearly see that most of all people in our country being US Citizens, that the people before the NCLB Act of 2001 Law, are ineligible to perform our tasks because we haven't recieved NCLB in our school before the time. This means that the college degrees, and training certificates are void, because we haven't earned the NCLB as elementary and secondary school students. We are under-achievers of our modern children. Anyone whome was for this, must have been really smart, because the general public is dumbfounded for not falling under NCLB in our education days.
Issue #2, Schools that recieved Title 1 fundings should have been done before for the NCLB Act of 2001 Law. If we can't meet the AYP, which my local school is, as I'm employed in one, we shouldn't have to recieve consequences from the government. The Title 1 funding is merely a plea to have students perform better in school. The Dean of Students, the principal, and teacher does take care of disciplinary actions. The government shouldn't have to do tell them how to do it, because they know.
Issue #3, I have read that if a school isn't meeting AYP standards, the schools are subject to teacher replacement. I have to disagree with this sort of action. The teachers know the students pretty well, and teachers will tell you how the students are when you ask. This means the government and state have more power over the teachers. So if there is a school that needs staff replacing, so should there be a replacement in the government's side...That means the politicians in that state, and the president himself for ever mentioning this well planned law.
Issue #4, The blame isn't to the school, or the teacher for failing to provide education to the child. The teacher didn't go to 4 to 8 years of college to get blamed for another's miseducation. The child is the one that decides whether or not to recieve the education...The teacher is there, effectively providing it. So therefore, there needs to be a law to give power to the teacher, a Child Commitment to the Curriculum Act. That means again, a child who performs poorly, isn't the teachers fault, but the child.
If the Government wants to educate the children, switch the teachers to the politicians, and the politicians and the president to the teacher.

Edward Feagle of AK 9:21PM October 13, 2008

NEO-UNIONIST EXPLOITATION OF AMERICA’S TEACHERS AND REDNECKS
Marxist refugees from Nazi Germany and Marxist Russia, and their Neo-Marxist American born descendants, are the leading exploiters of America’s school teachers and blue-collar rednecks. They recognized the desire of school and rednecks for more experienced representatives in bargaining with their employers, governmental and private, for better wages and benefits. Their Marxist revolutionary experience in successfully tricking millions good patriotic Russian Christians into slaughtering each other, in support of Bolshevik class warfare ideology, gave them an immediate advantage over the local teacher and labor union leaders. But, historically, this success does not predict a Neo-Marxist final victory in the American Cultural War.
Hitler’s brilliant extermination of the Marxists, when they tried the same cunning politically subversive tactics on the Germany People, suggests that the final outcome of the escalating American Cultural War against these exploitive Neo-Unionist Marxists shall be historically interesting. The majority of educated patriotic teachers are not susceptible to Neo-Marxist indoctrination; and the ultra-patriotic blue-collar redneck Christians instinctively put their ultimate trust in their God and their guns.
From the very beginning, when they cunningly usurped the power of the traditional teacher and labor unions, the National Educational Association (NEA) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have systematically indoctrinated thousands school teachers and millions of blue-collar rednecks with their Neo-Marxist ideology, exploited them for political propaganda work, votes and wages; and then used the many billions of dollars of compulsory union fees that they legally extorted to buy the corrupt services of notorious House and Senate prostitutes, who enact the demanded Neo-Marxist legislation subversive to Christian culture, patriotic nationalism, traditional family values, capitalism, and the Constitution.
Google: NEA Communism Weaver; and, SEIU Communism Stern.
Note: Constitutionally, Freedom of Speech provides both the means of gathering the intelligence and leading coordinating the attacks; and the Right to Bear Arms provides the right of every well regulated town militia to legally take the law into its own hands. The fate of America’s Neo-Unionist Marxists is directly in the hands the Christian patriots they have exploited; and whose Christian culture and Constitutional law they have destroyed.

Jeugenen of MA 3:14PM August 06, 2008

Every state has different tests - so how can you compare apples and oranges ?
As for teachers making 60,000 dollars ! I have been teaching 31 years with a masters degree and I don't make that! Come in to my classroom, work 60-70 hours per week and see if you could effectively teach!

Rick Fox of ME 11:29PM July 24, 2008

I was a teacher in the Air Force for 5 years; at first I was surprised to find how easy it was to teach the test. I will also say how disappointed I was; I had attended schools that made up the test on a Friday after teaching the objective all week. Don’t you old people remember the smell of the ink on Friday I ask why, it should have been on Monday? So now I ask what the hell did they talk about for all those aimless hours?
The level of teaching is in the course criteria where some one or a group of people say what level and establish how much time it will take to make that happen. In the AF if you had people fail then it was on the instructor not the student. I will also say that the AF is broken down in fields where they are taught what is needed to perform a job. Now without getting over the top the real system is in the beef not the schoolhouse or the payroll its what you want people to know to make a living in life, not take care of you with a pension, not the personal buffoonery, the teacher needs to take the test too.
If the kids new what the cost of a household was the brake down was in real life you only get 19% of your check for entertainment, that’s based on the fact that you only spend 40% on mortgage or rent. The kids would be scared to death about the cost of life let alone the drug problems, fast cash sure but show them a healthy hart and a pulse next to a drug problem and of course show them the young 40 year old drug addict. You will see this first hand if you gave yourself the chance to teach what real meaning what can be proven is the lesion.
Ok now we know that opinions (the view somebody takes about an issue, especially when it is based solely on personal judgment) don’t hold water practical experiences are for ever, let them learn to make decisions and what it takes to make a good one. Give them proper data show them how to prove their theory, let them apply what they learned from you in life. That is the hardest thing to do in case you have forgotten it also called being free to be a leader or a follower. Not a person who only sees the results of buffoonery.

Charles O'Riordan of WA 4:53AM July 24, 2008