[Jane13]

This sort of has to do with this thread, but I can really think of no better place to put this rant.

In my opnion, good teachers notice when curriculum just isn't working for the students. At our school, we have a few teachers who care enough to also try to find out WHY students that score excellently on standardized tests are making failing grades, why minority students aren't making it, and why the special-ed kids aren't making it. Our school board HATES that because it means they have to do something about it.

Now two of the finest teachers I have ever met have been asked to resign so that they don't have to be fired. One of them was targeted under the statement that they "didn't like her judgement." She was a great teacher, who gave the smart, previously indifferent kids more challenging alternate asignments and the kids who didn't understand what was going on lots of attention.

They didn't like her judgement because she didn't have tenure and was on the Teacher's Union, and actively tryed to change our curent situation with curriculum, money that comes into the school (nearly ALL of it goes to football), and the rediculous atmosphere that our school has toward students.

In the middle of winter they kicked us out of the front corridor promtly at 4:30 because it was school policy! We had to wait untill 5:30 for our parents to get there, and because it had been warmer that day none of us had coats. It would've done them well to freeze my two friends to death that had been on high honors all troughout highschool. The lousy ingrates.

The other teacher was the union president, and was working for similar goals.

I know that wasn't really about discrimination, but I needed to get that out... garg.