Last week was our annual homecoming week, witch I participated in when i was in high school here at MCHS. One thing that I have noticed over when I was in school is that the kids are much rowdier than we were in school. Last year I was ready to quit feeling that I could not conduct class and the kids were out of hand. Upon speaking to veteran teachers it is across the board, this year was not as bad as last but still was not a productive week in the classroom. It feels that the front office gives the students a free pass to be crazy, and the academic teachers have given up. So if the kids are not doing anything in their academic they feel that they shouldn't have to do anything in CTAE either. ( Venting over). I feel better now ;)
Well I am glad to know that I am not the only one who thinks this way. My second year has been much easier when dealing with classroom management, specifically discipline issues, but I still have my hard days. When looking at the current generation in high school, I still find myself unable to figure out how kids got so crazy and teachers stopped caring. I was actually having a conversation about this very thing last night. Since I graduated high school in 2004, we have dropped roughly 1 spot in the world in education every year. We are now 35th in the world when it comes to education, yet we spend more than any other country on education. As far as teachers in core content areas, I feel like a lot of them have given up. Or they are too busy kicking kids out of their classes, and sending them to CTAE to be cross-taught. I have also been told I wasn't a real teacher because I taught Culinary Arts. The ironic thing is when their kids come to my class, I find myself teaching basic math, english, science, and even sometimes history because the "real teachers" never taught the students these basic concepts. Now I really don't have an answer on how to handle these situations, and I don't like to cause problems in the work environment, but I call the "real teachers" out about their lack of success. Maybe it hurts their feelings, but I tell them to grow up and learn to take criticism constructively. After all, if they want to belittle others because they feel they are somehow higher on the totem pole, then they learn to accept the truth when I throw it right back in their face. Just hang in there brother... breathing exercises help too!
ReplyDeleteThanks James here i was thinking that i was the only one.
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