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<blockquote data-quote="Fatboy Joe" data-source="post: 1971157" data-attributes="member: 13212">hard_r, I understand you are doing your observations to be a teacher.&nbsp; These are much different than the realities of teaching on a daily basis.&nbsp; There are a lot of good teachers out there, and some bad ones.&nbsp; There are also those teachers who were great and have been deflated by the systems they must follow.&nbsp; They were once great teachers but low pay, NCLB and the decreasing amount of &quot;teaching&quot; they get to do has ruined them.&nbsp; They all teach to pass a test becuase that is how they are judged.&nbsp; My wife is a teacher.&nbsp; She averages 27 kids in each class.&nbsp; Each class has several kids that are problem kids (becuase their parents don&#039;t care, or are just total brats), several kids on IEP&#039;s, and several that have problems greater than a school system can understand.&nbsp; However, the problem kids distrupt the class forcing her to spend half the time disciplining these kids only to find out the district will not do anything anyways.&nbsp; She pretty much can&#039;t fail a student.&nbsp; The school districts will not expel a student because then their student count goes down and so will the funding.Don&#039;t get me wrong, it is a great profession.&nbsp; Those who do it are all great in my opinion.&nbsp; You couldn&#039;t pay me enough to deal with 162 students on a daily basis.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fatboy Joe, post: 1971157, member: 13212"] hard_r, I understand you are doing your observations to be a teacher. These are much different than the realities of teaching on a daily basis. There are a lot of good teachers out there, and some bad ones. There are also those teachers who were great and have been deflated by the systems they must follow. They were once great teachers but low pay, NCLB and the decreasing amount of "teaching" they get to do has ruined them. They all teach to pass a test becuase that is how they are judged. My wife is a teacher. She averages 27 kids in each class. Each class has several kids that are problem kids (becuase their parents don't care, or are just total brats), several kids on IEP's, and several that have problems greater than a school system can understand. However, the problem kids distrupt the class forcing her to spend half the time disciplining these kids only to find out the district will not do anything anyways. She pretty much can't fail a student. The school districts will not expel a student because then their student count goes down and so will the funding. Don't get me wrong, it is a great profession. Those who do it are all great in my opinion. You couldn't pay me enough to deal with 162 students on a daily basis. [/QUOTE]

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