My AP is the king of memo writers. Putting teachers down seems to be his new motto.
Here is an excerpt from his last note to us:
Some classes have less than 35% of the students passing. We are here to help students learn. We must try different ways to get our points across. It is not right that we depend on a few of us to teach the "bottom students" because others are ineffective. It is unacceptable that some classes have less than 20% of the students passing. I would agree that those students do not know how to learn. They might have attendance issues. Knowing all that, what are you going to do to help them learn?
Although I am not currently teaching any of the classes he is talking about I take offense at his tone. Once again, it is the teacher's fault if the kids are not passing. It is the teacher's fault if they are not coming to school. It is the teacher's fault that these kids don't do homework, don't stop talking in class and don't do any work at all. I've been teaching for a long time and haven't figured out yet what to do with some of these kids. It's time to face the fact that there are kids out there that cannot learn, no matter what we do. And if the administrators really think that something can be done to help them, maybe they should come up with solutions.
The rantings of a teacher who retired from the classroom but not from education.
2 comments:
Thier solution, generally, seems to have been to get the hell outta Dodge. Or at least, the classroom.
Our idiot AP for Instruction (the other two AP's are somewhat better, thank god) sent out an email me that he HAD to end with, "TEST RESPONSIBLY" (we're in Finals.)What the hell? Why do they always have to insult our professionalism?
My AP is always contradicting himself. He yells if we pass kids with more than 5 absences and now he is telling us to find a way to teach them. If we pass kids whose only passing grade is the final he will have a fit. He was never this bad in the past. I think it is a combination of his power struggle with the principal, his need to always be in control and the bonuses administrators are now getting that is getting him so nuts. He is losing the support of everyone in the department.
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