pissedoffteacher2

Oh, and I forgot the kicker: At the bottom it says "these were originally developed for special ed and learning disabled students, but we are now recommending them for regular classrooms."

This whole job is a troll. Ask a teacher - they won't be surprised.

Discipline was terrible until recently. There is a crack-down on that now since too many bad things got in the local paper.

The kids are not generally disrespectful - at least to me - they think I'm a "cool" teacher since I still watch a lot of the same shows they do, etc. I enjoy the kids on a personal level. But we are utterly failing them in terms of giving them a real education - it's so sad - these kids want to be nurses, detectives, etc. They will be lucky to be mopping the floors at McDonald's with the education we give them.

Does this mean that the poor teacher has the re-craft the same test differently over and over?

That's what we're told to do. In reality, when it's 6 PM and I haven't had anything to eat all day, I say fuck it, and give the same test. Often they fail it even worse the second time around since they've forgotten the material.

I can see a lazy student just taking it over and over and memorizing the answers to that same test without actually learning.

No, that would at least be showing some initiative. If you're flunking my class - which already has tons of "adaptations" in it already - you don't have that kind of initiative anyway.

I feel like that guy. I did have a girl tell me today "you're the first teacher who's said I could do something with my life." Now this girl is a bit of a drama queen, so who knows how sincere that was, but still... stuff like that does make you keep going.

But then again, this same girl laughs at me today when I tell her she has to study. That's the sort of stuff that makes you want to quit.