As a public safety instructor I would like to know how to get the perfect class. I have some students that are really interested in law enforcement and public safety. On the other hand, I have some students that I am teaching them to be good criminal. I am not having problem with my sp. ed. kids some of them will be good kids and they will be good in the field as radio operator, CSI. I have some kids that already have criminal records. And talking with some of the kids I ask "why are you in this program?" the response is "I don't know". Who put you in this program? "My counselor" Is there a such thing as the perfect class?
Please help!
Hi Walter,
ReplyDeleteI understand your frustration. No, there is no such thing as the perfect class. And, yes, unfortunately, the counselors do use the career tech classes as a dumping ground. Sometimes there is simply no other class that the counselors can put the student in.
This is where, when we are given lemons, we have to learn to make lemon-ade. Is it easy? No. No it is not easy. Sometimes I think it is the hardest thing I have ever done. But hang in there. Do the very best you can. That is all you can do. And at the end of the year, you may be pleasantly surprised at how many students you might have actually reached.
But I understand your frustration. Many, many days I have come home and felt like crying. Wondering how in the world am I supposed to teach students who don't appear to want to learn anything.
Hang in there. We are all pulling for you. And I'll even make a wager with you. If you teach your students to be good criminals and get all shot up and cut up, I will teach all my Healthcare Science students how to bandage them up and take care of them when they arrive in the ER. Ha! Ha! LOL!
(We have to laugh at ourselves and have fun! Life is too short to be all stressed out all the time! Right?)
Connie
in 2 years i think i have only had 2 students tell me they are intested in public safety...most of them will get in the groov by the end of the year..when they ask me law enforcement sensistive quesitons i always respond with, "Graduate mandate then come back and ask.." i tell them up front im not going to teach them how to get away with crime..no more attention than those kids pay in class they wont know anything more than teh typical jailhouse lawyer..
ReplyDeleteI have the same frustration. Last year, I was the dumping groumd because I was the new person. This year, I am the dumping ground again. We are overcrowded and needed another elective so I agreed that I would take an additonal class and have extended day. I was told I would be looked out for, not true. I get students in my adavace class that has never taken the foundation class. I get students that have passed the foundations class last year back in the foundations class. They have been changing schedules since the first week of school and they still are not right. I am so frustrated. They take the students that really want the class out and put in students that do not want to be there. They don't bother to ask the students what they may be interested in.
ReplyDeletethey done that to me last year to mortissa..i had kids that faile foundations put in level 2 and kids that didnt have foundations in level 2..luckly our guidance was on the ball and got them removed quickly when i notified them of it
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