From: "Mary Horsley" <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] NCLB
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:07:54 -0500


Gosh, Alice....I hear you!!!!!!  And just today our principal announced
that teachers could go buy a case of copy paper at Costco for $25! Exactly
what I refuse to do: buy consumables.  And I thought it was just
Richmond....

Mary


> [Original Message]
> From: <HobgoblinH-AT-aol.com>
> To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org>
> Date: 1/20/2005 5:30:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] NCLB
>
> I am a teacher in a very low-performing school district. I am seeing all
this 
> from the inside. The reality from the victim's eye view is that 
>
> 1. We have less and less time to teach the interesting stuff.
> 2. Students are pulled out of regular class time to be re-formed into
other 
> classes where they are taught the art of test-taking: how to read a
question, 
> and how to answer a question.
> 3. Lesson plans go out the window on an average of 1-2 days a week as 
> classwork is interrupted for encouragement over the intercom, inducements
of 
> free-dress day, special perks like field trips or pizza parties for
high-achieving 
> students, required computer activities, testing skill days, and pep-talk 
> assemblies.
> 4. Teachers are required at intervals to prove themselves "highly
qualified" 
> by taking in-services and classes on their own time, while they are at
the 
> same time pestered by assistant principles who have all sorts of
checklists for 
> teachers to fill out. 
> 5. Teachers are required to attend more meetings in which they are 
> alternately cajoled and threatened to show improvement by their classes.  
> 6. Lesson plans, which are pretty much meaningless, must be more and more 
> complex, showing exactly what goals in the curriculum are being targeted;
while 
> said lesson plans are being returned more and more often for not being
clear, 
> long, or specific enough.
> 7. The whole world shuts down whenever generalized tests are being given, 
> except for the occasional bomb threat. 
>
> And now the president wants to call for even more testing. When does
actual 
> teaching take place?
>
> Alice
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