With the 2013-2014 American school year still in its infancy, its worthwhile to note that the people doing the actual educating are down in the dumps. Many feel more beaten down this year than last. Some are walking into their classrooms unsure if this is still the job for them. Their hearts ache with a quiet anguish that’s peculiarly theirs. They’ve accumulated invisible scars from years of trying to educate the increasingly hobbled American child effectively enough that his international test scores will rival those of children flourishing in wealthy, socially-advanced Scandinavian nations and even wealthier Asian city-states where tiger moms value education like American parents value fast food and reality TV. The American child has changed, and not necessarily for the better. Many shrill voices argue that teachers must change, too, by simply working harder. The favored lever for achieving this prescribed augmentation of the American schoolteachers work ethic is fear, driven by a progressively more precarious employment situation. But teachers by and large arent afraid; theyre just tired. #bestof2014 theeducatorsroom/2013/12/the-exhaustion-of-the-american-teacher/
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:09:20 +0000
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