At the beginning of the school day, the halls are mostly empty. A few students straggle through the halls and wander into classes. The official start of the day is 8:15, but most students will not be in school at that time, and the students who are will wander into class sometime before 8:30. Who knows when announcements will happen.
First Period: Advanced Placement
At the start of class, 50 percent of class is not present. Twenty-five percent are absent, 25 percent are late, and many of those are late by at least half the class period.
I pass out copies of “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” and give a brief background on Douglas. No one takes notes.
I next assign the introduction and preface for reading in class. Maybe six of 20 students open the book and start reading; other students open the book, but put it face down on the desk and get out their cell phones, although they are repeatedly told to put them away; a fair number do not open the book at all. One student asks if he can listen to music while he is reading, because, he says, “My brain doesn’t work in silence.” I tell him he needs to practice silence.
One student refuses to take the book. When I ask him why, he says he isn’t going to read it because he read it in fifth grade. Yeah, right! The teacher may have assigned it, but that doesn’t mean he read it. Besides, there are different levels of teaching the same book to various ages of students. Even if he had read it in fifth grade, it was most likely for comprehension only. I am using the book to teach rhetoric. He mouths off about it, and declares we should be reading Tupac Shakur instead.
I try to explain to him the difference between what we may like and what is considered quality work. He is unwilling to listen. He keeps arguing. I give up and say nothing more, but he will not stop arguing and continues to interrupt the few other students who are actually reading. Finally, after ten minutes of him mouthing off and my repeated requests for him to stop talking, I ask for his mother’s number. Few of the numbers in our school’s system are accurate; people change phones and addresses constantly.
There's much more here..
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8 comments:
THIS is the "AP class" in the ghetto. Since there HAS to be a certain percentage of black AP students, this is the cream of that crop.
Later, they get full rides to Harvard and Brown, again to meet those "minimum goals" and quotas, just to show people that even though they can't write a complete sentence, it's BIGOTRY and RACISM that holds them down, not their scholastic intent or abilities.
Imagine what the "regular" classes are like, then start the criticism of teachers.
keep cheering.
Just what is the ghetto? Salisbury and wico county school are ghetto compared to public schools with in a few hours drive.
Sounds like my class at parkside
What can you expect when you let unions do your bidding for you? You're just asking for that kick in the teeth. Most teachers have no support (or passion) when it comes to their students. The administration certainly doesn't watch their backs or back up classroom discipline. Furthermore, parents no longer work with the parents to insure their child's academic development. It's a perfect storm, producing idiocy and violence. Bullying and all the other asinine things that occur over the school day only distract students who do want to learn from achieving their goals. Private school, while expensive, is becoming the only alternative for parents wishing their children to gain a solid, quality education. Public schools are becoming more and more like glorified daycare centers.
Here's another one describing what it's like, to work in the trenches of the ghetto, at a black high school. Honestly, I don't know how these teachers deal with what must be an utterly alien and chaotic work environment....never mind the danger.
http://www.black-and-right.com/2013/07/01/before-its-deleted-of-the-day/
In the days of responsible parents the children were encouraged to get an education so they could get a better job. Today, many black children think it's not important because many of their parents are living on welfare so they don't care. Most will follow in their parents lifestyle.
I am a teacher and I am anti liberal and believe in private school vouchers. The unions are loving the school systems because it's keeping them in business. They have already endorsed hillary clinton.
I would home-school my child before ever sending her back into the hellhole called public schools.
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