Teachers smoking something in Public Schools

Ok I don’t know what has possessed these teachers at my daughter’s school but first they send home a 21 page packet for her to complete in 4 days and now they are expecting her to complete a 35 page packet in 3 days!! WTF are they smoking!! I understand that they are doing CRCT prep but come on really?? Asking a first grader to do this amount of work is asinine and over a weekend!!  I don’t know what has gotten into these teachers at the Public schools in my county but it is ridiculous the amount of homework they are asking them to do. I home school my youngest and we never do it over the weekend unless she has been sick during the week or flat out didn’t want to and had to make up work. The saddest part of it is that my daughter will bust her tail to get it all done on time and then gets penalized since the teacher will hold a packet out a day or to let the rest of the class get it finished, and then expects her to get a large packet done in 2-3 days instead of the 4 that she is supposed to have. I swear these teachers are all about penalizing those that do the work on time and not those that didn’t. I remember when I was in grade school if I didn’t complete an assignment we didn’t get extra time we got a big fat 0 or incomplete if we turned in what we had.

Public Schools have changed so much from the time I was in to now. I am only 31 and it’s scary what the school system has turned into in this short amount of time. I have seen more violence, drugs, profanity (even at the Elementary school level!!), and teachers turning their heads to students that need extra help. I remember that if I needed extra help in a subject my teachers were willing to stay late to help me or any other classmate that needed it. Now they can’t wait for the bell to ring to get out the door.

I feel sorry for the students of today’s school system. If they are struggling but are barely passing they don’t care or try to help them. They figure that it will click and they will get it when all actuality that student may never understand the concept being taught unless they were to receive the extra help that they truly needed. I actually end up reteaching my oldest daughter a lot of material from her “school” since she doesn’t understand it the way it was presented to her. They do a one size fits all approach to learning and not realizing that they have some students that are more visual and tactile learners than simple A/V learners. My daughter is an A/T/V learner. I have seen this decline in school very quickly and it scares me to the point that I can’t bring myself to put her through another year of this type of schooling. Quite frankly I fear for my youngest that is to start kindergarten next year. She is already at a kindergarten level in her math and ELA skills and to put her there would just “dumb her down” and not push her to her full potential.

WHY is it that the schools are this way now?? The only reason I can come up with is that our government is the ones running the school and not the teachers like it was when I was in school or my parents. The teachers can’t teach and modify it to the students needs instead they have to go by what the government says the kids have to know by the end of each year and end up doing more testing and packets than actual teaching until the students understand it. This is the sad state of our Public education system and it only looks like it will be getting worse the more I talk to other parents in other grades in my area.