Reply #72: It's ok. [View All]

[LWolf]

I've known a few teachers like that, although they were in the minority.

Here are a few things you should know:

When a teacher is not competent, you may not see the machinations going on behind the scenes to solve the problem, but I can guarantee you that SOMETHING is happening. Other teachers don't like it either; after all, we get the unprepared kids the next year!

The Clinton years were not full of freedom. The "standards and accountability movement" started long before it made it to washington as NCLB. There were state battles going on, and it started at the state level. Under Pete Wilson in CA, where I taught. During the Clinton years. TX and FL, of course, but there were other states ahead of the NCLB curve as well.

The current mess is a bipartisan mess.