I agree
It has pretty much become a pass of your school lose funding b/c of no child left behind, not to mention there are some teachers that do it fro the wrong reason, and then there is to many people trying to make policy that have never been in the classroom, and teachers are no longer really protected from parents that want an easy court case, to much politics in school, ...the list goes on
But not all teachers are bad, and not all programs are bad
My wife works from 7:45 in the morning to 5 in the after noon (that’s just at school) then she comes home and has to grade papers, go over lesson plans, and since she is in special ed she has all these reports she has to write—so some days she wakes up and goes to bed working
So I don’t bust her chops about getting bigger breaks
But being on the front line I can tell you some things that do need to change
Year round school—it seem s to be a better plan then what we have, more staff to lower the student teacher ratio, better funding for after school programs and the arts, a clean up of the politics, no longer should you be allowed to be a principle unless you have spent at least 15 years on the front lines (as in the classroom)
