Putting this under the RANTS section because I cannot believe the state of public education in this age of political correctness.
My teacher wife turned in her resignation. It is effective at the end of the school year.
There are several other teachers who surprised the district this year by turning in end-of-year resignations/retirements.
Principal was "floored" by the resignation. My wife was just named one of the most influential teachers in the school district by top students. My wife is also fed up with the lack of standards, lack of discipline, lack of effort by the students, etc. They just got a new principal who has made some positive changes but the system is still a cluster.
I've very glad she finally quit.
In the last day or two she's acting like the weight of the world was lifted from her shoulders.
My teacher wife turned in her resignation. It is effective at the end of the school year.
There are several other teachers who surprised the district this year by turning in end-of-year resignations/retirements.
Principal was "floored" by the resignation. My wife was just named one of the most influential teachers in the school district by top students. My wife is also fed up with the lack of standards, lack of discipline, lack of effort by the students, etc. They just got a new principal who has made some positive changes but the system is still a cluster.
- They don't believe in giving students homework?
- There are no qualifications/prerequisites for taking "Advanced Placement" classes so the teachers then have to "dumb down" the advanced classes . . . consequently very few students pass the national AP tests!
- They don't believe in failing students who are, in fact, failing! They just inflate the grades!
- Every failure is the fault of the teacher.
- Can't use RED pens to grade papers because it might hurt the esteem of the student.
- Too many other problems to BEGIN to list.
I've very glad she finally quit.
In the last day or two she's acting like the weight of the world was lifted from her shoulders.