[lbo-talk] Confessions of a bad teacher

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 12:23:18 PST 2012


Yup. This could have been written by my wife who is also a special education teacher. I hear similar stories on a daily basis.

Wojtek

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:13 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> It's just a witch hunt.
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/opinion/sunday/confessions-of-a-bad-teacher.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
>
> That said, given all the support in the world, even the best teacher
> can’t force his students to learn. Students aren’t simply passive
> vessels, waiting to absorb information from their teachers and
> regurgitate it through high-stakes assessments. They make choices
> about what they will and won’t learn. I know I did. When I was a
> teenager, I often stayed up way too late, talking with friends,
> listening to music or playing video games. Did this affect my
> performance on tests? Undoubtedly. Were my teachers responsible for
> these choices? No.
>
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> Wojtek
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