[MCP] Blame Game

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All new teachers should be aware of the extreme political world involved in education. You cannot fight it so if you can't tolerate it, it's best to find a new profession. 
          

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From: Stephanie Hammel <stephaniehammel at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:31:13 
To:mcp at edchange.org
Subject: Re: [MCP] Blame Game

I agree that the pressures being placed on teachers are unrealistic.  As a graduate student who has really only experienced classroom teaching as an intern, I am already exhausted from the battles I've waged against NCLB.  THat being said, I hope there will never come a day that I am so beaten and battered that I refer to any child as a demon.

alicia banks <ambwww at yahoo.com> wrote:  
I am tired of teachers being held increasingly accountable for young children who do not want to learn and parents who do nothing to assist us...From the genocidal edicts of NCLB to people who have not set foot in a typical school for decades, I am told daily that anything that is wrong with failing students is my fault. 
  
I do all I can for all children who come to me with less basic skills annually...I have many parents who never read to their children and never even buy them books. I have many children who are not fed, nurtured, or even bathed daily. I have many children who have never even been told how/taught to behave at school or anywhere else. 
  
I am a superior teacher. I give my very best to all of my students. Some of them are angels who excel. And, some are demons who have no desire to learn and no one to teach them to value education or study at home. Some watch TV all night and snore through my classes. 
  
There are indeed some children whose cycles of social and intellectual dysfunction, prenatal chemiccal damage, and cultural toxicity all mesh to make them unreachable. 
  
I am a teacher. I am not God. I cannot save them all... 
  
FYI, 
Alicia Banks 
Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2006 
  
 
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