A girl in my first block came into class right as the school doors opened this morning. Since none of the other kids will walk into the room until the tardy bell rings or after, we were able to talk for a few minutes.
I teach at an inner city public high school, and she had recently been attending a private school.
She told me that because they moved too far away from this private school she had to come to this public school.
She told me how much more she liked the private school because the kids were not allowed to mess around and act as terrible as they are allowed to act at my school.
The work was hard, but she liked that. "If these kids acted this way at my old school, they would all of a sudden be gone." "You would think, is that student absent today?" You would find out they just got rid of them.
I know that we are probably not able to get the level of academics as high as that private school, but we make sure we stay down in the lowest regions of education due to all our stupid gimmicks we are told we have to do on a daily basis.
We have "experts" and "consultants" come in and give us the latest liberal gimmick, the latest trick that will make us better "entertainers."
Since too many teachers are liberal and do not believe in strict discipline, the kids expect to get away with whatever they want, and the worst that will happen is that they will have a "talk" with someone and try and convince them that saying the N word or F word or any other bad word 10 times in a one minute period is not acceptable.
See, at the private school you get suspended or eliminated from school.
If public schools had strict discipline, from the beginning, the kids would follow suit.
Since we do not do it at all, if we started it would be vary hard work, it would be hell for a year or two. Liberal teachers would cry that too many kids were suspended or expelled.
And there would be a lot of them.
But eventually the expectation would be that school is for learning, not listening to mp3 players, not to "clown" in the hall, come to class whenever you want and "clown" some more.
The kids have learned from the years and years of soft, liberal education that they control the school. They decide when and where they will follow the rules.
If they don't want to do their work, fine...the teacher will be blamed and will have to come up with a new gimmick to try and convince someone to do their work.
I'm sorry, it is pathetic and I am getting sick of it.
If you really cared about these kids you would stop with the games and get tough.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Talk with a student about public vs private schools
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someone tried to comment saying "so private schools only hire conservatives"...the rest was vulgar so I didn't print it..
But this comment shows a lack of smarts or understanding about what I said.
The private schools are RUN in a conservative fashion, and have a much larger number of conservatives in them...the conservative mind-set works so much better, the liberals go along with it...
It is only when a school is over-run with liberal teachers and all the failed liberal educational scams that you really see how detrimental these ideas really are to the kids
And you base these conclusions and what scientific studies? Your biased opinions don't count.
From personal experience I can see why you would say that liberal teachers are soft on bad behavior.
Fifty years in MPS allows me to say that the GAME is RIGHT ON the mark with this post and those who are so off base with needing more evidence should spend a month in this type of school setting getting
the necessary "scientific" proof that would be easy for even shy
anonymous individuals to figure out....
Game,I see your point and you do not need a scientific study (more $$$) to see it either. Those that don't (not can't) see your point are really doing a disservice to the students they "entertain" and moreover are directly contributing developing a lower, dependent class of future citizens.
The future of America really looks quite f-ing sad.
You have to ask yourself, why? Why is this downward spiral allowed to go on after so many years?
Come on people, the problems have been identified for decades, why, when we know the causes, and have potential solutions, has this travesty been allowed to continue? Why would otherwise intelligent people allow this to continue? Why would we let the potential future of this country self-destruct?
The answer is – because this is exactly what the elitist puppet masters on the left want! The lefty followers have been duped, and cannot see the forest for the trees. The right in this country seems impotent to stop it.
Game,
I commend you. I appreciate your efforts to keep this most important of all issues on the front burner. As long as I’ve frequented this blog, you’ve never faltered in pointing out the insanity that is public education in the USA.
You must really enjoy your work, considering the crap you have to put up with on a daily basis.
Game,
What Blamin said.
It isn't too hard to figure out. Kids respond positively to high expectations. High expectations registers in their minds as a sign of true love and caring. Sure, there will always be a-holes in the crowd. But overall the amount of them will be fewer.
Unfortunately, in the inner city schools of the type that Game presents, it has gone so far in the wrong direction that we're talking at least a couple of generations of influence to harden the hearts of these thug kids. They're parents were the same way in many cases so there is no direction at home. It's a sorry situation that has no easy answer, but high expectations as well as severe ramifications are without a doubt a part of that answer.
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