Top Ten Reasons I Teach
According
to Me
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As the Educational
Deformers Would Have It
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1.
To help children learn how to think and find their own meanings in
life
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1.
To suck the life out of children by testing them to death
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2.
To help students develop the skills and work ethic they will need if there are jobs available when they
graduate
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2.
To take the blame for poverty in America off the backs of the
politicians and the rich
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3. To continually develop, learn and grow by
filling my natural thirst for knowledge and
by engaging with colleagues
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3.
To be subject to policies and programs written by people with no more
than 2 to 3 years in a classroom
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4.
To receive some Thank You cards from students
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4.
To be chastised in the
headlines for the test scores of sometimes underprivileged students and to be
part of a system that collects data on students to be used for God only knows
what
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5.
To touch thousands of lives, one student at a time, one year after
another
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5.
To teach more children than the number of desks in the room without access to supplies in order to be
compared with teachers in well-funded schools with reduced class size
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6.
To help maintain democracy by supporting its most basic foundation,
public education
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6.
To watch a stake being driven through the heart of public
education in the name of feeding charters
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7.
To infuse my curriculum with interdisciplinary materials that have
touched me in my life
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7.
To watch funding for music, arts and drama go down the drain in order to
fill the pockets of Charters as well as the Testing Industrial Complex
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8.
To have the academic freedom provided
by tenure to open students' minds to debate on current issues
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8.
To electric shock my students into developing skills along the same
learning curve by cramming the common core down their throats
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9.
To live with human dignity with the hopes that I am helping others
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9.
To be accused of cheating and forced to stare at a computer screen ridden
with glitches during Regents week to grade essays
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10.
To be able to give selflessly to kids because I remember what it was
like to be one
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10.
To be identified as a member of a profession overrun by miscreants and
perverts by people who are accountable for nothing
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