Enough of the politics, the dysfunction and the promotion of some sorority friends
Friday, March 9, 2007
Spring Is Here
I do not know if that is the case in your schools but lately and particularly during this week that just ended, there has been more than 5 fights. As the weather starts to get warmer, students start to get excited are ready to do anything to get attention or stay outside. I am at my 6Th year teaching and every time Spring approaches it is the same situation. As a consequence of this situation, students are getting to class tardy, more are getting suspended or sent to ISS. Over the last 3 weeks I have 4 students who got more than 30 days OSS. Even though these students are going through some kind of social or emotional crisis (I believe) some needs to be done to address these issues. One particular thing that I see particularly across my district ( because my school is not the only one going through these latest situations) is that some of the new administrators are "too young". If age can not be used as a factor to determine once capacity to get the job done properly, in a high school environment, i believe that age, couples with experience does matter. Students nowadays do not want to listen, they don't care therefore they need somebody with experience in education (not less than 10 years and this is my personal opinion) and authority and who can get things moving!
Enough of the politics, the dysfunction and the promotion of some sorority friends
Enough of the politics, the dysfunction and the promotion of some sorority friends
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3 comments:
As a new teacher maybe I shouldn't say anything about the inexperience of administrators but I must say I agree with you. Our administrators need to be more experienced.
I also feel your pain about all the kids on suspension. I have had 6 different students in either in school or out of school suspension just this week. I told them the other day to quit it because I didn't have time to write separate lesson plans for them. They laughed at the tone with which I said it but deep down I was serious. It is very time consuming to put together work for so many deliquent students. I rather doubt they care though.
I agree with Joyce. I am fortunate that our Administrators have many years of experience. I do see students acknowledging and noticing that when an Administrator says "jump", they say"how high". There will always be the "thugs' who could care less. And 3 letters are very common in my e-mails......ISS and OSS. And what burns my butt, is that I have to provide work for them. So, let's, supposedly punish a student. And let's punish a teacher who is working their butt off and bother them with requesting work to be provided to this scolded child.
Yavo,
We have had this discusion on numerous occasions. It goes much futher than the administrators. Top Leadership must formulate a plan to remove all distractions from the learning environment. Every school in America is confronted with similar issues,some are handling it better than others. We must find a solution to the problem.
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