It Takes a Village

Thanks to A Shrewdness of Apes for this one:

A fed-up teacher tells Tulsa World readers she’s had it with public education critics who’ve never spent time in the classroom. Specifically, who’ve never spent time in a classroom with these kids:

These students talk while the teacher is talking, throw things when her back is turned and sometimes when it isn’t. They sing, dance, roam the classroom, try to trip one another, horseplay and generally make it difficult to conduct class in an orderly manner. In fact, these behaviors make it difficult for a teacher to conduct class at all.

Also on her list: “parents who do not have the ability or the desire to discipline their children; they simply cannot or will not parent.”

And on top of that, there’s NCLB.

As one of the swelling number of teachers leaving the profession, I can say that many of public education’s detractors need to look in the mirror; your child may be the one contributing to his or her own status as “left behind.”

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