American Angel, Effective educators care about the 'whole child'. Maybe during the 1950's teachers could just teach, but society is different today. Children come to school with a variety of issues; emotional, social, not to mention learning disabilities. You may make the comments that you make because you are only raising YOUR kids, but in my classroom; all of the students are MY kids, so I am teaching a village, which often means being the 'social angel' in an effort to provide the very best, free public education for my students.
- March 12, 2010 8:51 PM
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American Angel,
Last I checked, as a teacher, we don't just "have kids for 7 hours"....we take our kids home with us. Teaching is not just 7 hours with kids that disappear when we step off campus. - March 12, 2010 11:26 PM
Sunday, March 14, 2010
My response:
It is this thinking that has put us in the situation we are in now. How happy are you that the students you claim to care so much about are now in a class with at least 39 other kids? How are you going to worry about the emotional well-being of 40+ kids in your own class? How are you going to be socially involved with 40+ students? You won't be. More kids will slip through the cracks of education because you have to be social angels.
When "free" education also means "free" psychology visits, "free" bi-lingual education, "free" meals, "free" mentoring, "free" babysitting, and "free" tutoring it is no longer free. It costs!!! As a society we cannot be the crutch to all who feel the need to have one. We are losing good kids, smart kids because this other one "needs" something more. Focus on teaching or go get a job at social services. You can't have both and we can't as a society afford to pay for it anymore.
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