The administration is obsessed with evaluating teachers and teachers are so stressed about the fact they are being scrutinized every minute they can't function properly. In the last year we got a new principal and teachers who have had a good track record, highly qualified, teaching for 15 to 20 years with advanced certificates were given unsatisfactory evaluations. Many were excessed.
The fact that teachers' salaries are so low and the long hours that they work - probably 6.45 am to 10 pm every evening and also at weekends reduces the salary to well below the mininum wage.
Students couldn't care less if they fail. I have called parents and pleaded with them to encourage their children to come to coach class, do makeup work etc. The parents said let their children fail and they wil retake it next year. Many of them cut class and can be found at the local MacDonalds. The principal does nothing to get them to stay in school. This is all very frustrating.
The system needs to change towards teaching students just like in the good old days. The nasty state tests should be got rid of. Teachers should be valued and if thery meed help they should be given a nice mentor to help them.
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