galenrox

Alright, my mom's a public school teacher, she teaches 3rd grade. My dad has done well for himself and as a product of which my mom is not financially reliant on her income as a teacher to get by (it's sad, but I guess in this day and age it bears to mention my parents are still married).

I went in to help her out with her class, it's ****ing ridiculous. At least 4 of those kids should be in reform school by now, and several others should've been diagnosed and off with trained special ed teachers, but instead my mom is forced to handle kids that for the life of them can't sit still and pay attention for more than 30 seconds and kids who are violent enough that they are seriously a threat to my mom's safety.
On top of this, the teachers in my mom's situation are provided no means of disciplining their students. Since the actual school building is over crowded, my mom and several other teachers teach in a converted jewish center which the CPS rents out. Now most teachers can send troubled students to the principle's office, but in this case the principle's office is about 3 blocks away and there's no staff member at my mom's building who can actually take the time to walk the student over to the main building, so teachers are required to keep troubled students in their classrooms. They're also not allowed to make the students stay after class, because parents come to pick their kids up and refuse to be forced to wait for their kid to come out. My mom is continually told to talk to children's parents to solve the problem, which completely ignores that there are a lot of parents who really make absolutely no effort to discipline their children. So she literally has nothing she can do to deal with the out of control children so that she can actually do her job, which is teaching the under control students. So as she's busy dealing with out of control kids all day, the under control kids inevitably respond by becoming more out of control, and the class turns to ****.

But there's more, as of course, there must be. My mom was trying to get her class lined up, and one of her most out of control kids was running around, standing behind her and mocking her while she was trying to get the other kids under control. My mom turns around to lead this kid to the side with her hand, the kid moves and so she touches his neck instead of his back. The janitor reports this as abuse, and so now my mom is under 3 investigations, one with the police, one with the CPS, and one with the school.



I told my mom to say this, and I think she's on the same page, just go in to the principle and say "Listen, if I'm not given genuine means of removing problem children from my class by winter break, I will not be returning after winter break, and I could care less if you've located a replacement for me by that point in time."

My mom tells me this reaffirms her belief in vouchers, because **** like this would never be allowed to transpire in a market system. Anyway about it, it's ****ing infuriating.

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