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I Mattered a Teacher's Story (Hardcover)
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I Mattered a Teacher's Story (Hardcover)
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In "The New Meaning of Educational Change" Fullen wrote, "Low
morale, depressed, feeling unfairly blamed for the ills of society?
You must be a teacher." This quote spoke volumes to me as I watched
politicians jockeying for position by spewing their recycled
political rhetoric, and then launch an all out attack against
public school teachers. In years past these attacks had been levied
against those receiving social security, Medicare and Medicaid
which mainly affected the poor, disabled and elderly. Don't get me
wrong these issues are still on the table, but I guess politicians
felt they had beaten them with a dead horse and needed another soft
target to spark the public's interest so public school teachers was
it. They struck with a vengeance firing public school teachers by
the thousands throughout the country. In an attempt to reduce the
collective bargaining power of teacher unions, such as American
Federation of Teacher (AFT) in Texas they claimed the only way they
knew to help balance the state and district school budget
shortfalls was to rescind some of the benefits they had agreed too.
It hurts when the profession I've dedicated over half of my adult
life (25 yrs.) to; is under attack by politicians and other's that
have no true concept of what's involved in being a public school
teacher. We have absolutely nothing to do with the decision making
process. First we're told to do one thing and then we're told to do
something entirely different. It's almost schizophrenic. To all of
my colleagues that remain on the frontlines of public education and
those that are planning to take up the banner 'This book's for
you.' You might not have control over the decisions being made
outside your classroom, but you can control those things going on
inside. I provide ways to control student behavior by the design of
your classroom to the use of a simple yellow tablet.
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