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Why I teach and why I fight
« on: February 12, 2013, 03:19:29 AM »
Why I teach and why I fight



I am a teacher because I want your children to succeed. This is why I maintain a transparent grading process for students and their families to completely understand how I arrived at my grades and how we can work to remedy these grades if indeed we are all trying to make a good faith effort to improve their learning. I am a teacher because I want your children to make real progress.

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Re: Why I teach and why I fight
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2013, 08:34:11 AM »
John,

Thank you for your article.  I can truly appreciate your position, as my wife has been a teacher for DCPS for 5 years.  I have watched her pour her heart and soul into the lives the children whom she teaches.  I share your sentiment that many teachers (not all) are not compensated, both financially and in gratitude, as they deserve.  You certainly highlight how the education system is flawed.  I submit that we must fix it for children and teachers alike for we may fail our children and not provide them they education they deserve, and risk losing more of the truly good teachers. 

Finally, I believe that we need more teachers like you in our public schools.  Please keep up your mission to advocate for teaching, at all levels, which is still a very honorable profession.

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Re: Why I teach and why I fight
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2013, 08:12:43 PM »
Well written, John.  My late wife taught Elementary Special Education for 30 years.  We spent many a long night grading papers, running averages, and she spent untold time on the phone with parents, and working on IEPs.  She was an excellent teacher, whose students would come back to see her years after they left her class.  She was never recognized as "Teacher of the [whatever]"  because she didn't play the game and write lengthy papers explaining what she did.  She was too busy doing it.

The treatment of public school teachers (and for that matter, public schools) is shameful.  So, speak up, Young John, about the outrages being perpetrated on Florida's children.