[Rhodes22-list] A word to the unwise..My view of teachers

[Arthur H. Czerwonky]

Jerry,
That's the way I see it, too.  When I had a bad teacher, not many, I simply had to work harder to do well.  My daughter has had the same experience with former students, the greatest reward.  She has taught the past three years in a challenged school - challenged mostly by student habits and student norms.  She will have one hour a day with each, four core subjects - four hours that may be the only learning allocated for many.  These are difficult odds.
Thanks for your well reasoned input.
Art

-----Original Message-----
>From: cjlowe <cjlowe at bright.net>
>Sent: Aug 27, 2007 4:46 PM
>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] A word to the unwise..My view of teachers
>
>I think that where you went to school,has alot to do with how your teachers
>performed for you.I grew up in a small town (6000 pop.),every body knew
>everybody.I can count on one hand how many bad teachers I knew about .(only
>had one bad teacher,and he was only lazy,not really bad.)
>I believe that all my teachers cared more about the whole class, than they
>had to ,to bring home the paycheck.Most of the teachers went way out of
>their way to see that their kids got what they needed.
>Thirteen years ago I married a 5th grade teacher. For the first ten years,we
>couldn't go to town without running into one of her former students.None of
>them ever said that she sucked or didn't do her job or anything bad about
>her.Alot of them thanked her for being such a good teacher,some of them said
>she really changed their lives for the better.One former student told her on
>the first day of a new school year," I'm here teaching today because I was
>lucky enough to be in your class eleven years  ago." That's the paycheck
>good teachers work for,although not near as many get it,as deserve it.It's
>also why good teachers take exception to comments like -you only work nine
>months a .year---ect.
>
>the way I see it,
>Jerry Lowe
>
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