| for the bad news |
| There are no dumb questions |
| achers weren‘t quite as unanimous about the things they |
| The te |
| ever.” |
| didn‘t like. Parents made an appearance. Teaching is not for the |
| faint of heart, bluntly advised a teacher from |
| Parents are becoming m ore and more belligerent as their kids get |
| lazier. Administrators, other teachers, the workload, the kids… |
| even standardized testing came in for criticism. I can't believe |
| how quickly the focus of education has changed in the 10 years |
| that I have been teaching. It is so test-driven and performance- |
| driven and this goes against EVERYTHING that children need! |
| one teacher argued. |
| But the real villain for many of them was the paperwork: not just |
| grading and correcting homework, but writing student |
| assessments, creating independent education plans, and filling out |
| mandated forms. Meetings to discuss and plan curriculum (and |
| other school related issues) were another inescapable irritant and |
| a cause of considerable grumbling, and the two were often lumped |
| together: paperwork and meetings, like heads and tails, a losing |
| coin toss either way. One fourth grade teacher warned that |
| teachers rarely teach any more – |
| due in part to all the paperwork |
| –and went on to bemoan the politics, isolation, pay raises, lack of |
| time, lack of support from government, endless paperwork, things |
| that take me away from teaching, pay cuts at the 11th hour, large |
| class sizes, lack of job security, lack of professional development |
| and support. |
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