bobbyflatliner
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Did not see a thread on this, and am curious about how you feel about the schools, the students, teachers, admins, and overall feeling about particular schools.
bobbyflatliner said:Did not see a thread on this, and am curious about how you feel about the schools, the students, teachers, admins, and overall feeling about particular schools.
bobbyflatliner said:Did not see a thread on this, and am curious about how you feel about the schools, the students, teachers, admins, and overall feeling about particular schools.
bobbyflatliner said:Did not see a thread on this, and am curious about how you feel about the schools, the students, teachers, admins, and overall feeling about particular schools.
I don't blame the schools as much as I blame the parents.2ndAmendment said:Oh. We disliked the public school system so much, we pulled our boys out and home schooled them. Their employers always remark that the have a much better work ethic than most others that work for them and also seem to be self starters and able to figure things out much better.
Since the majority of their "competition" are products of the public school system, I think the comments are a pretty good litmus test on the results of public vs home schooling.
2ndAmendment said:The public school system in southern Maryland is terrible. It is PC and not about education. Most teachers don't care about education; they are more interested in getting 3 months off for summer.
kwillia said:I don't blame the schools as much as I blame the parents.
kwillia said:I don't blame the schools as much as I blame the parents.
kwillia said:I don't blame the schools as much as I blame the parents.
vanbells said:You've got to be kidding me? You think most teachers are bad because of a few bad apples?
Troof.
2ndAmendment said:So those of you who think it is the parents problem, thanks. I appreciate that.
I stand by my statement that the parents are primarily responsible for what a kid accomplishes in school. Our teachers are there to provide the students with the "tools" required to learn, but cannot force them to use those tools. That falls back on the students and the parents. I have one stellar student in the public school system and one that constantly needs his butt kicked... I don't blame the teachers for my not so stellar student just as I don't give them credit for my top of the charts student.2ndAmendment said:So those of you who think it is the parents problem, thanks. I appreciate that.
Hahaha. I have all my teeth. I tend not to write formally on forums, so I may seem ghetto.2ndAmendment said:Troof? What? Are you missing your front teeth?
2ndAmendment said:I cannot speak to every teacher in Southern Maryland, only to those I encountered. When a fifth grade teacher tells me that spelling doesn't count and in 10th grade that it is OK to count on your fingers and a middle school English teacher uses "ax" instead of "ask" and "it do" instead of "it does" and "on accident" instead of "by accident", I see a problem. And when these concerns were brought to the attention of the administration, we were told that they were not going to do any thing about it., I see a problem.
bobbyflatliner said:This area recruits most teachers from out of state. They are young and ambitious. Most want to make a difference. Then reality sets in. The most important thing, it would seem, is state testing. Sadly 2nds post really rings true. Alot of pressure is put on making the kids feel good, and not learn much. You cannot discipline any kids anymore, because mommy and daddy will get mad and literally threaten lawsuits. New young teachers cannot see the dream they had coming true, not to mention the cost of living, and they leave.
kwillia said:I stand by my statement that the parents are primarily responsible for what a kid accomplishes in school. Our teachers are there to provide the students with the "tools" required to learn, but cannot force them to use those tools. That falls back on the students and the parents. I have one stellar student in the public school system and one that constantly needs his butt kicked... I don't blame the teachers for my not so stellar student just as I don't give them credit for my top of the charts student.
Because I said that we had so much of a problem with the public schools that we home schooled our boys. The replies were:cattitude said:Why would you take that personally?
which was a direct response to my post. With followups of:kwillia said:I don't blame the schools as much as I blame the parents.
andvanbells said:Troof.
cattitude said:
So the responses seem to be an indictment of Sharon and I that we were doing something wrong with our boys or not communicating with the teachers or schools or the school system which is just . That is why I took it personally.Christy said:I blame both.
I see you as having a different circumstance then what's being described here... so far, the complaint seems to be students that are not staying to task and a school system that seems to have their hands tied making them stay the course. :shrug:Christy said:I blame the school when my kid went from private school to public school and she'd already completed the curriculum for that entire school year and they refused to provide her with more challenging work. I mean what's the point of sending her? Free daycare?
We pulled her out and put her back in to private school where she belongs.