(July 11, 2012 at 10:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Some of the decisions by school boards make me think that they are little more than mindless bureaucrats with a terrible fear of being sued. The day they started suspending children for drawing pictures of a gun or bringing an aspirin to school because of a "zero tolerance policy" is the day that I lost all respect for them.
Try thinking assholes. That's what you get paid to do.
As one more brick in the wall, I used to think so too. But with all the top down pressure around No Child Left Un-fucked with, I have begun to accept that it is my compliance that I am paid for. Doing something because it is best for kids or just plain the right thing to do, has to be done clandestinely. Officially it has become all about covering your ass, and teaching used to be such a wonderfully creative and involving occupation. I can't begin to tell you how happy I will be to retire in the near future.
