Cooking the Books -- Public School Style...

[tybrad]

It's not that our hands are tied. It's just aggravating, time consuming, and insulting that people outside the profession have the gumption tell the teaching professionals what they should be doing, how we are not professional enough to be trusted to make professional decisions, what duplicate processes we MUST do, how the parent is always right (I hear; my Dept. Chair and Principal support me very well, but I have been in the converse situation at other schools), and other similar things. I pretty much just work with the smallest footprint that I can, stay out of people's way, and stay positive; at least to my peers. I am in my element with Juniors and Seniors, for the most part. Not so much with adults.

As I said, my school is the best PS in our County on many different measures but I came to it from one of the bottom 10% schools in the County. So I guess that I will count my blessings. Rob (Merrylander) and Finnbow are right- those PG schools are well funded and very good!

Tyler