Can YOU:
- Go seven hours without a bathroom break?
- Calmly accept that your shirt has been used as a Kleenex and you have no way to change it or even wash it well?
- Stoop and squat to tie at least a dozen shoes a day?
- ...including those whose laces are wet with unknown liquids?
- Read Bearsie Bear and the Surprise Sleepover Party, making distinct character voices for all seven sleepover participants?
- Go an entire working day without talking to any adults?
- Open twenty milks in ninety seconds?
- ...while cleaning two spilled milks?
- Hunt through musty backpacks full of papers, small toys and crumbs to triumphantly find a permission slip?
- ...then run a 50 yard dash at NFL-draftable speeds to get it signed?
- ...and remembering to bring a pen and a clipboard?
3 comments:
It amazes me how easy people think your job is. I work in a school in a supportive capacity and could NEVER be in a class of more than 10 students for more than an hour without wanting to lose my mind. Teachers have some seriously unreasonable demands being placed on them. Thanks for being a voice the under- appreciated public school educator.
I always think teaching is the equivalent of starring in a Broadway musical production that runs six hours a day, for which you make your own costumes, do your own makeup and sell the tickets.
Thanks for the kind words!
As a newspaper veteran, I can also tell you that the NORM in the newsroom is to be highly literate and hopelessly beyond dysfunctional in math. I know a few outliers, but they are definitely the rare and few. So practically none of your media attackers could remotely pass the math portion of the CBEST. I would dearly love to see them required to try.
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