I always thought that WE (the teachers in general) who do NOT do our jobs
adequately (and we know who WE are) are the ones who are really the reason the
powers that be "tell" us what and how to teach. I saw it in Head Start, when
there was an arrogance among some teachers to relax and not go the extra mile,
I think around the same time it became unpolitically correct to fire people or
write them up based on poor job performance. Suddenly, we couldn't find a way
to get rid of the bad or dead weight and so we had to force them to do the job
by making them conform to a "program" of teaching. I used to direct centers and
it was very difficult to let a teacher go (preschool, not public) because of
the "liability." And we all know how difficult it is to get rid of teachers in
public schools. The unions mostly protect the slackers, it seems to me. (I do
realize there are bad and vindictive principals, too) I would be curious to
know if anyone thinks I'm way off base here, or if
this might be part of the picture.
Debbie
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