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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (6686)	2/27/2001 11:00:46 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Many of the other elementary school teachers I know are not happy. They feel overwhelmed by the paperwork- they hate the way the tests and standards compel them to teach out of text books, and the time for hands on teaching evaporates. They hate the loss of art and music time, too. I think the one huge plus with elementary school is the children themselves. They are still full of hope, and their expectations that school will be a nurturing and exciting place have not been dashed yet. The legislators who do not understand thing one about education are trying to kill the spirits of the good teachers (not by intent, of course, but merely as a result of their ignorant and short sighted policies)- but I hope this will eventually stop. I think in high school the rubber meets the road- because it is in high school that the failures of the system become all too apparent. Children that could have been saved in elementary school by remediation, are pretty much lost by high school. That would be very depressing for me. The children I cannot reach are the ones that disturb my sleep- and the number of children that you cannot reach grows each year, as more and more of them give up on school, until by high school I think it would be very hard indeed to keep my morale. Some of my favorite classes are the communicatively handicapped elementary school kids. I hate to think what lies ahead for them- and I try not to- but now, in this moment, they are wonderful kids to teach.