I admire anyone that's willing to teach in this day and age. My best friend was a sub at a school near Dallas, while he was finishing his masters degree. After the first day, he said he'll never send his kids to public school.
If kids got into a fight, they had to attend "anger management" classes instead of suspension like when we were kids. All the kids had cell phones, brought food to class and dressed like tramps. He said they showed no respect and didn't understand responsibility. There were a number that continually disrupted class.
I don't blame the kids. It's the parents fault. Parents today expect the teachers to teach their kids the ABC's, ethics, morals and manners. I have a 5 month old and I'm already fretting grade school for her. I'm glad there's still some good folks like yourself that are willing to teach. Too bad they can't make the parents attend class.
[img]/forums/images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] By the time a kid has finished hi skool he has watched 30,000 hours of TV. What they learn from TV is that every problem is settled with a handgun; people hop in and out of bed.....anyone's bed.......when ever the mood strikes them; and that homosexuality is somehow a "gay" and desireable lifestyle. [img]/forums/images/icons/mad.gif[/img] Of the folks who program TV and radio; make movies and record albums; ONLY 7% ever attend church. Add to that the incessant drumbeat of liberalism that is preached every day in many classrooms, and it is NO WONDER that the citizens we graduate have no dependable moral center. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
Here is a URL regarding the agenda to remove Christianity from society at large. In a nutshell, it discusses the role Horace Mann, the "Father of the common public school", and Robert Owen, one of the fathers of modern socialism, and others.
I've been in the schools. I taught 7-12 science for five years, two of those after I had already been burned out once and took a break to raise my children to school age. In Missouri, the average new teacher burns out and quits the public school system after 3 years, never to return. Sadly, with only five years of experience, I've got more teaching experience than >50% of the Missouri teaching population. Most of the burnout is due to the fact that the average teacher works 60+ hours a week during the school year, discipline is at an all time ineffective low, and the state's demand for continuing education for certification. It is difficult to find balance in your life as a teacher.
Life as a substitute is better because you have time to live your life outside, but in the classroom it can be worse because in the students' eyes, you're not a "real teacher". IME, the classes who behaved best for substitutes faced double the consequences for misbehavior upon the teacher's return.
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