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RE: Special Education Teachers and Pool Noodles.
Excellent story. I think the biggest issue is whether or not someone is suited to their job as a teacher. Too many people became teachers for a steady paycheck and summers off. The ones like you who actually love the kids and their job, who care enough to find the right pool noodles, well hats off to that ;)
You'd be surprised how many good teachers I know. I think it's one of those situations where a few of bad ones are so bad that it's easy to make a leap that they represesnt the majority of teachers. I have seen studies where they polled individuals and asked their general opinions of teachers. The answer where negative but when they asked a follow up question about the specific teachers they have had experience with, they same people's answers were very positive. For example my kids have had aproximately 15 teachers. One was not very good. Another was ok. But 13 out of 15 were great. And a few of those were so awesome that they drastically improved my children's lives. But it is far more likely to talk at length about the one negative experience. I have to catch my self and make sure if I do, I also talk about the great ones.
Then you are definitely in an amazing district. I know what you're saying about the tendency to focus on the negative, but that's not my nature. I just had a lot of mediocre to crappy teachers, haha! I did have a few awesome ones though, and they are the ones that stand out for me. I made sure to return and tell them that ;)
I'd say one teacher who becomes one because of the summers is too many lol. They simply don't get it. Luckily the vast majority of them can't take what teacching really is and quit in the first few years. Some manage to hang on but in my experience it isn't many.