I have a good friend who's a school teacher. High school, in Pawtucket. It's been something of a crazy ride for him in all sorts of ways, but he's stuck with it. Because of his specialty and the way that his district is set up a lot of his students come from non-English-speaking homes, and he has to get them up to speed.
It's a hectic job, and around this time of year is when it gets especially so. I'm sure the job is rewarding, but I can also see why he hasn't taught summer school since he stopped having to.
It's a hectic job, and around this time of year is when it gets especially so. I'm sure the job is rewarding, but I can also see why he hasn't taught summer school since he stopped having to.
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I have full sympathy for anyone involved in teaching these days. Not only are children from non-English speaking homes having problems but so are kids who use smart phones and tablets from an early age. An article I read earlier today gives a decent description of the problem. It's a scary thing to contemplate.
Teachers do have an uphill battle in a lot of ways, and the fact that society doesn't seem to value high order verbal reasoning anymore doesn't help. I think even a lot of kids in upper class households aren't having the same kinds of face to face contact they would have in earlier times. Considering the kind of power they're likely to wield later in life, it's scary in another way.
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