Respect for Teachers
I work as a Docent (guide)) at a local museum here in Tucson. This week a young couple with a brand new baby came through and in a casual conversation, they mentioned, she teaches here in Tucson, and, after five years here, they are pulling up stakes and going back to Michigan.
Why I asked, living here off and on since mid-seventies. Working within the local school district TUSD, she told me, I can't stand the students dis-respect for teachers. I've had it. Her 32 year old husband, jobless for six months, said, she comes home and cries and the abuse. The inmates are running the institution, he says, Any student can claim anything, "rat" on the teacher or call their parents and the principal gets phone calls - from A LOT of neighbors. The racial tension runs high here.
I'm going home she says. (After five years, mind you) she's "going home." One teacher I know worked in Yuma, Arizona, right on the border made a casual reference to one of the students who didn't speak ANY English. The student called home, spoke to the mother, who spoke to the principal, who spoke to the teacher at that lunch period, who fired the teacher on the spot for making "inappropriate inquiries as to the legal status of the student."
No hearing, no "due process" nothing. Go home. The young woman told me that students she teaches IN TUCSON often come directly from MEXICO. I didn't question her as to details.
In my own experience I have occasionally seen parents arrive at the front door of school, greeted by the principal who had to endure twenty minutes of screaming by the parent in front of the office staff, other students and teachers. Substitute teachers fill the ranks of everyschool system in Arizona for the absent staffs who are usually Missing In Action Mondays and Fridays. They just don't want the long weeks. Blue flu takes it's toll on those days.
Problem students wind up in the slammer - truant heaven. It's called In House Dentention. In my days as a teacher, I spent a lot of time shuttling kids to and from that room. The teacher manning the room referred to the incoming students as " the usual suspects."
More later.
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Why I asked, living here off and on since mid-seventies. Working within the local school district TUSD, she told me, I can't stand the students dis-respect for teachers. I've had it. Her 32 year old husband, jobless for six months, said, she comes home and cries and the abuse. The inmates are running the institution, he says, Any student can claim anything, "rat" on the teacher or call their parents and the principal gets phone calls - from A LOT of neighbors. The racial tension runs high here.
I'm going home she says. (After five years, mind you) she's "going home." One teacher I know worked in Yuma, Arizona, right on the border made a casual reference to one of the students who didn't speak ANY English. The student called home, spoke to the mother, who spoke to the principal, who spoke to the teacher at that lunch period, who fired the teacher on the spot for making "inappropriate inquiries as to the legal status of the student."
No hearing, no "due process" nothing. Go home. The young woman told me that students she teaches IN TUCSON often come directly from MEXICO. I didn't question her as to details.
In my own experience I have occasionally seen parents arrive at the front door of school, greeted by the principal who had to endure twenty minutes of screaming by the parent in front of the office staff, other students and teachers. Substitute teachers fill the ranks of everyschool system in Arizona for the absent staffs who are usually Missing In Action Mondays and Fridays. They just don't want the long weeks. Blue flu takes it's toll on those days.
Problem students wind up in the slammer - truant heaven. It's called In House Dentention. In my days as a teacher, I spent a lot of time shuttling kids to and from that room. The teacher manning the room referred to the incoming students as " the usual suspects."
More later.
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