Here comes the soap box
Teaching has changed so much in recent years it isn't funny. My wife and mother in law are both teachers and since it is the only thing they have in common...it's all they talk about. I can barely stand it. Anyway...teaching today isn't anything like when I was in school...or much less like what the old timers went through. Mainly because they are trying to prepare kids for real world situations. Unless your child has aspirations of being a ditch digger (and the world needs those too) then they beter be organized, they better be able to multi task, they better be able to use technology, they better to be able to use a planner/trapper keeper because if they can't there are a billion screaming Chinese just waiting to climb over the bluff that can. I'm a firm believer that my child's educators work for me and that they should all be going above and beyond for every child and not just mine. However, there isn't a single child in today's public education system that is getting the attention that they deserve, or the education that we are all paying for (L&M gets 52% of my property taxes). That being said, I also believe that parents blame teachers for issues that are beyond the scope of the teacher's responsibility. Teacher's are expected to teach kids how to be polite, how to respect others, how and why to be tollerant of others. Teachers are expected to take up the social teaching ''slack'' that parents either don't have the time for or are of the mind set that it's the teacher's job to do this....ahhh...nevermind...I'm getting too worked up...
