Where are the teachers?

[Guru]

I know you are here.

[Scarlett O'hara]

I'm here, but techically, I'm not a teacher until school starts August first!!!!!!!!!!:)

[EricStratton]

I WERE an Enlish teecher, but I isn't no more.....don't noe whie I ain't.......dey sed I wereen't teechin' the childs wright....

[EricStratton]

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/NEWS/807250363&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

Seriously, I taught high school English for two years.....I loved it, but gave it up for what I think is a better opportunity for me and my wife.

After reading the article I posted, a question popped in my empty mind: I would like to know how many "reading specialists"' are employed by our school districts, especially in the junior high and high schools....Do any of our schools employ anybody who's sole responsibility is helping kids "catch up" to an adequate reading level?

It doesn't look like state testing is going to end anytime soon, but I also don't think we are focusing on the right issues....

[CRawls]

My mom was an asst. in an elementary school for 20 something years. About 3 years before she quit, she was in a special reading lab for the students needing extra help. When the teacher retired, they did away with the reading lab saying it was in lack of funding. She was in the lab for 5 or more years and loved it.

[optimistik1]

My dad was a teacher for 30+ years...
I always thought I might go into it, but got married and had a family instead! *grin*

[Nana]

You did opt, just at home.

[optimistik1]

(((((Nana)))))

[Guru]

I wish folks that have what I would call in my amateurish way normal reading kids could have attended The Dubard School benefit we performed.
It's a school located on the USM campus for reading and hearing challenged kids.
I have to say that many of the kids there talk better than many you see on the street, and read better too. Very, very fine school.
Nothing like a bunch of bikers all standing there with tears running down their faces and those kids hanging on us like we were their long lost uncles.
I was changed forever.
Here here for reading, writing and arithmetic.

[Guru]

Here here for you teachers also. You think you are doing a good thing but to some of us you just have no idea how high of a pedestal we hold you.

[pooker]

Props to you teachers who put up with those stuck up kids! And the ones who zone out like me. I couldn't be a teacher with all the stress they put up with. You guys gotta have some patience.