"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:17:05 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:



I remember a cleansing of those same teachers in the mid 70's to early
80's...... they are gone...... many, without a retirement. A big
*thanks* for their years of service and commitment.....


I assume that was in a school district where your kids went to school. Why
was there a purge?


They didn't fit the new educational model. They actually expected to
maintain control of their classroom.... and teach. They didn't see any
sense in suspension/expulsion quotas. They actually saw learning not
as a spectator sport, but one in which students actually had to take
an active part. Since they were no longer able to enforce discipline
they actually had the audacity and very unpopular expectation that
administrators take the responsibility.

Their "F*ck the community. Take care of the students" attitude clearly
showed that they were not team players.... one of my favorite teachers
of the era (and one that had tutored many students toward state
honors) was called a dinosaur by the administration as they worked on
the paperwork to document kicking him to the curb.

I could go on...... and on.....

Sounds like a missed opportunity to boot the administration. My son says his
teachers don't take no mess from the kids (to paraphrase a James Brown
song). And, this is in a public school. Nothing fancy. Last year, one of his
friends got straight A grades math & science, and flunked English & social
studies, which meant summer school. The parents complained that this would
ruin their vacation plans. According to the kid, the principal's response
was "How many report cards did you not read since last year? Change your
vacation plans."