On Friday evenings someone is kind enough to throw a newspaper on the driveway. It is the little local paper, not the ones with thousands of ads, but the one with all of the local news you don’t see in the News Journal. In fact the paper is called “The Hometown News”.
Like most places we have the main newspaper you pay for, then we have what is called the “pennysaver”, the thousands of ads, and then the free local paper.
While Heidi was reading the little paper Sunday morning over coffee, she read me an article in the “Rants & Raves” section where people write about what’s on their mind. Sort of like this blog, but in print.
Anyway the title was “What happened to ethics”. The writer explained she had been a substitute teacher and sided with them on being underpaid and overworked.
Her daughter had always struggled academically so it was a wonderful surprise when her daughter started bringing home A’s. Her and her husband praised their daughter each time they checked her homework and found out it was all correct.
One day while puting away her child’s clothes she found a copy of the teachers answer sheet in her dresser drawer. I am sure you are thinking the same thing her parents and myself were thinking.
She stole the answer sheet from the teacher.
Well you would be wrong just like us. Believe it or not the TEACHER gave the class the answer sheet. This information came out after the parents arranged a meeting with the principal and the teacher to consult with them on their child’s behavior. The parents asked why they hadn’t been informed. No answer was given. Just kind of a blank stare.
The writer then went on to say that she felt the school was just pushing kids through the system to bring up the grade average which in turn will bring the school more money.
Yes, believe it or not, Florida has a system where the best performing schools get extra money every year. But get this, it doesn’t go to benefit the students, the school staff split the booty amongst themselves.
So what we now find out is that what the teachers are really teaching is how to cheat to get what you want. Can you believe it? I hate to believe it is happening but if it is happening in one school, it has to be going on others.
Disgusting, just absolutely disgusting! The teachers involved in this incident have no respect for themselves, the students, the taxpayers, the parents, and the teachers that have come before them.
Get mad if you want, but I believe we are seeing the fruits of a generation that some were spoiled rotten by their parents and now they are the ones molding the ethics of the next generation.
I, for one, am afraid it is only going to get worse…..
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