[lit-ideas] Re: ah, education

I read that most teachers now come from the bottom third of the high school graduating classes. I don't know if this is true. What is true is that older, experienced teachers are paid to retire so new teachers can be hired at lower pay.
Part of the problem here as I see it is that there are too many young teachers who over identify with the kids they are teaching and want their approval. Older, more experienced teachers, even at the college level, are frequently in trouble. Students take teachers to a 'court' to discuss why they didn't get an 'A' since they tried. My sister retired of her own volition as she saw this trend in the younger teachers and she couldn't stomach it. 

Veronica Caley
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:42 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] ah, education
More on my friend's son in public school ... again from a senior academic English class aimed at the college-bound.
From the heights of her welkin-rippled syllabus, the AE teacher may call down in-class writing assignments. Write a page about blah-blah. Thirty minutes. Would that it were silent. Friend's son is constantly annoyed, in media eraser, by the other students, who chatter to each other during the writing process. 

"I'm writing about ..."
"What do you think about ... ?"

Here's the kicker. IT IS NOT ONLY ALLOWED BUT ENCOURAGED.
Apparently the texting/e-toy generation is so afraid of their own consciousnesses, so lonely while writing, or so in need of immediate approval for the slightest mental effort, that they are welcome to chatter with each other while shaping a half-dozen paragraphs.
Tsk-tsk, right? No way for the mom to grow wonderfully wroth and rampage through the groves of No Child Left Behind, gathering the heads of idiot teachers to lay down before PTA. Hmm, maybe an angry letter to the Times. 

There is no team in I,

Eric


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