Well today I got a letter in the mail asking for parents help in figuring out why the kids arent learning well in school. That these damn tests that the No Child left behind crap states that an alarming amount of our kids arent up to the level they should be for math and reading.
Well what I have to say they really arent going to want to hear it. I firmly believe that they arent doing what they used to in school. All these half days, days off for parent/teacher conferences, teacher training, or just for any so called holiday needs to stop. The kids are out of school more now days then when I was in school, and they wonder why they arent learning.
I mean come on now the teachers have demanded more freaking pay to do way less work. This is making me very angery. I have made my mind up and any future demands of more pay will not go through. I will make sure that it wont, because if they want to be paid more then they need to actually work the same level that my old teachers used to do. Its only fair!!!
This not having school so teachers can train is bullshit!!! They have three freakin months to train without making our kids suffer by not being in school. I thought that was one of the reasons why we do have summer break. The teachers train while the kids have a break.
But then again if you look at other countries school year we have the most time off. And again people wonder why we are so behind the rest of the world. I would like to see our kids going to school more and having less summer break, and these little holiday breaks, and all the other reasons why they have the day or half a day off. If our kids are going to have any hope at all to succeed, they need to be in school more to learn.
I am sure that the school district will not like all that I have to say, LOL. But it needs to be heard and to have changes made.
Ok, sorry about that but I had to get it off my chest, LOL. Hope all is going well for everyone. May the Goddess watch over, protect and bless you all.
