I will never buy the NY Post again. I have, in the past, liked the Post because I have found that they take a conservative perspective. But, to defame 12,000 teachers?! Really? Last night, I was sick to my stomach over what they did in NYC to those teachers. I hurt for them.
The scores that were posted were just crude scores with very little meaning. However, the general public has little understanding of those scores, those tests, what it's actually like to be in the classroom.
One "responder" to the post article called teachers "parasites" and "drones". I'd like to see that person make an attempt to command the attention of 120 students, educate them (the way the state wants), find materials with hardly a budget, and try not to rip his/her hair out while talking to parents that could care less about the education of their child. It seems as though people view us as the Union OR as sipping an ice cold lemonade all summer long on the beach. They have NO idea what it's like September-June. The emotional roller-coaster you ride every single day trying to get a group of apathetic kids to WANT to succeed in life. Try. I dare you.
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