I teach college at Monday night just to have something else to do. I get to class usually a few hours early just to beat traffic which in Atlanta is horrible if you are just a few minutes off. I have a student in my class who is a single mother and always is early to class. She is also ex-military having a medical discharge due to injuries in combat. We sit and talk often about her son who is a middle school student and how I would never teach middle school. She talks about her frustration as a mother of an exceptional child with behavior issues and his difficulties at school. I listen to the stories and wonder where are we going wrong and recall a friends words as we walked to class yesterday. “I am going to have to work on paperwork more and co-teaching less to keep up.” This coming from a teacher I greatly respect and admire. It saddened me that in this crazy world of education we have come to this, paper work first then teach kids.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:41:45 +0000
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