SHORT
COMMUNICATION 344
America's Public Disasters
By
Roger Behra
No. You are not going to read about rivers
overflowing and flooding houses. No. You are not going to read about tornados destroying a
city. No. You are not going to read about a sudden and destructive earthquake. Yes.
You are going to read about the new name for America's Public Schools. They are
referred to now as America's Public
Disasters, because that is exactly what they are. There are reasons for the new name.
It is common knowledge how and when the U. S. Government
came down the river with boat loads
of money to help the public schools, and as a result, it mandated too much
organizational and administrative changes and what teachers can and cannot the
classroom. That was the beginning of what morphed into monstrous discipline problems that added to the already counterproductive school day and order. Monstrous discipline problems now are the norm rather than the
exception, because teacher's hands are tied concerning the handling of
discipline.
It´s not a secret that the key that opens the door to very good teaching
success learning is very good discipline in
the classroom first of all and elsewhere on the school ground. That is totally absent now in America´s public
schools. Teachers are constantly
between a rock and a hard place on a daily basis.
Along with the monstrous discipline problems, teachers
are expected to perform too many duties not related to the teaching process. That
consumes valuable time away
from planning, teaching, and evaluation of subject matter. The teacher's workday is a modern day nightmare to say the least
as they struggle to properly have a productive classroom teaching day.
Teachers cannot handle discipline problems in
the same manner as before the U.S. Government got involved in the schools. It is a whole new ballgame now. Teachers
are very restricted in what they can do in the classroom, and that's why discipline has become such an unsolvable problem. Here
is an example of what it's like.
Miss Goodlady is trying to teach 12th graders
how to write intelligent and acceptable paragraphs. To her right is a boy
loudly holding a conversation with a friend. To her left are three girls manipulating their cellphones and
giggling. In the back of the room is a
girl who jumps in and out of her seat to chat with her friend. She
refused to stay seated, so a security guards carne to remove her. She got loud and abusive with the security
guard, and off to jail she was taken. It was her second appearance within 30 days before the same judge, so he
added 30 more days to her original
sentence and bail time. Miss Disrespectful became very angry. Her
reaction was to say "F----you,
Judge" and flip the judge her middle finger. Immediately,
her place of residence was a jail cell.
Now you have an idea of what goes on in
America's Public Schools and why they justifiably can be called America´s Public Disasters. (By the way, Miss
Goodlady's paragraph writing lesson was a failure.)
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