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It's very simple & very
interesting to follow your way thru the layers of your buried or stuffed emotions & feelings that have accumulated throughout the years!
when you've reached this point, or this website, you know you're making
progress!!!! this part gets difficult because now is the time to look within & become emotionally honest with yourself!!!
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Sincerely,
Kathleen
Demoralized teachers, unruly students, bureaucracy top concerns about schools Siobhan McDonough, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Ill-mannered pupils, demoralized teachers, uninvolved parents & bureaucracy in public schools are
greater worries for Americans than the standards & accountability that occupy policy makers, a new study says.
Teachers, parents & students said they were concerned about the rough-edged atmosphere in many high schools, according to the report released Wednesday by Public
Agenda, a research & policy organization in New York City.
Only 9% of surveyed Americans said the students they see in public are
respectful toward adults. High school students were asked about the frequency of serious fights in schools:
- 40% said they occurred once a month or more
- 56% said they hardly ever happened
- 4% had no opinion
Only 15% of teachers said
teacher morale is good in their high school.
"This is a true reflection of how the public feels," said Shirley Igo, president of National Parent Teacher Association.
"It says that our young people are looking for positive role models out there."
The report, drawing together more than 25 surveys done by Public Agenda, traces how attitudes of parents, teachers, students, principals, employers & college professors have changed over the last 10 years.
A typical national random sample telephone survey on standards in 2000 canvassed 803 parents of public school students
in grades K-12, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The report says standard testing is important, but many other factors are hurting academic performance.
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act holds schools accountable for student achievement. States must devise & offer tests in reading & mathematics for every child each
year in grades 3 thru 8 beginning in fall 2005. Under current law, states are required to test students in reading & math
3 times during their K-12 years.
"The standards movement has taken hold in American schools & continues to enjoy broad support. But there are some troublesome fault lines," said Public Agenda
President Deborah Wadsworth.
Teachers "believe in higher standards but often feel they can't count on students to make the effort or parents & administrators
to back them up," she said.
Superintendents & principals want more autonomy over their own schools, with 81% of superintendents & 47% of
principals saying talented leaders most likely will leave because of politics & bureaucracy.
Teachers said their views are generally ignored by decision-makers with 70% feeling left out of the loop in their district's
decision-making process.
According to the report, 73% of employers & 81% of professors said public school graduates have fair or poor writing
skills.
Teachers said lack of parental involvement is a serious problem, with:
- 78%
of teachers saying too many parents don't know what's going on with their child's education
- 19% said parental involvement is strong in their high school
Igo said part of the problem is the lack of communication between schools & homes.
"There's a lack of knowledge on the part of parents about how to be effectively involved in the school," she said. "It's
2-way street - parents have to assume responsibility & schools have to offer meaningful opportunities for parents to be involved in students' education."
The study also found that:
- 67% of teachers said their
school puts obstacles in the way when they're trying to accomplish goals at work
- 83% of teachers said parents
who fail to set limits & create structure at home for their kids are a serious problem
- 41% of teachers said schools
automatically promote students who have reached a maximum age
Respondents generally said schools place far too much emphasis on standardized test scores with:
- 60% of parents
- 84% of teachers
- 52% of employers
- 57% of professors
- 45% of students
agreeing.
Do all Americans experience a demoralizing
environment in today's society?
Thesis sentence:
The
problems with public education today are that many teachers feel demoralized
& ineffective because of the many calls upon their time outside of teaching & many
students are disinterested & disruptive.
General Outline.
1. Many teachers feel demoralized.
2.
In addition to feeling demoralized, they also feel ineffective.
3. Finally
the students themselves are a problem because many of them are disinterested & disruptive.
I can still remember
my elementary school days: I contrast my memories with the stories I hear from my friend who is
just now going thru her 1st year of teaching & comes home every night & cries out of frustration that she can't make learning happen for her class of 1st graders.
It's easy enough to
be an old curmudgeon & complain that public schools aren't "good like they used to be," but it's a fact that here in Texas,
1/3 of graduating high school seniors who go on to college have to undergo remediation in reading, writing &/or math before
they're ready to take college-level courses.
Public schools
definitely aren't as good as they need to be. The problems with public education today are
that many teachers feel demoralized & ineffective & many students are disinterested & disruptive.
One problem with
public education today is that the teachers feel demoralized.
They feel
demoralized for a number of reasons.
- They spend inordinate
amounts of classroom time in classroom management, which is a different way of saying that they must spend a lot of time disciplining
students, even older students, telling them to sit down, be quiet, stay on task & sit back down.
- They can expect little support from parents, since often times, the most
problematic students come from single-parent families where the parent, usually the mother, is working hard just to support the family & has little time to worry that the child
is behaving well at school.
- What's more, teachers expect too little administrative support, since so many students need disciplinary action. What's more, the
administration isn't necessarily sympathetic & supportive of the teachers' efforts in the classroom, often undermining those efforts without even realizing it.
One of my close friends teaches art at a local junior high school. She tells me stories from her own experience &
that of her friends that suggests that the students are out of control.
She told me of one 9th grade art student at one of the other junior high schools used the sink in the art classroom
as a toilet, leaving visible evidence in the bottom of the sink.
She's told me of calling parents to solicit their support in disciplining the child only to be told that the kid is
her problem during school & that if she can't handle him, then she has no business teaching.
The administration at her school has constantly backed away from tough institutional disciplinary measures, telling
the students that these measures are too harsh but admitting to the teachers that there are simply too many students needing discipline
for the school to hold them to in-school suspension for infractions where such punishment has been promised.
One of her friends who teaches math reported that last year the crisis counselor at that school
continually pulled students who were failing math out of math so that they could attend a
group counseling session in
order to get in touch with their feelings.
This left the math teacher with the
dilemma of either getting these students into tutoring before & after school or dealing with the consequences of failing them.
The teachers hold
so little authority & respect from either the students
or the administrators. It's little wonder that they feel as though too little of their time is spent teaching & too
much of their time is spent trying to carve out of few minutes where teaching might occur.
"I just gotta say it!" - a sideways look at education
in the US...
kathleen howe
I'm often the first one to say, "You have to walk a mile in a man's
shoes before you can make judgment on his actions..."
Sooo, I'm making that judgment, now, without doubt, without hesitation, without hedging on any intentions of hurting
any feelings...
I've made comment in other columns within the network that
I'm the mother of seven children. I am. Five of those children I've given birth to & 2 are step-daughters. I've had the
pleasure of monitoring their educational histories as well. Each one of my children has had a different experience in education.
It just happens when you've had a checkered past as I have, that children would all experience such differently colored pasts.
It's troubling that with their educational histories.... none of them are positive.
None of them positive? but why do I say that? Certainly a few of those seven children must have been educated in the United States of America's
fine public education system! Alas! What could be wrong with that? In the greatest nation in all global opportunity, how could
the education system be judged, "of poor quality, of inadequate means, producing inferior graduates?"
I say this about that.... and I've
just gotta say it! President Bush... President Clinton... President Bush.... the three of you need to be ashamed of yourselves for allowing the public education system to take the fall when you needed to cut programs. For after all... a nationwide educational public school system doesn't erode to meaninglessness overnight.
It doesn't take four years to destroy one of the most advantageous opportunities in the world. It doesn't take 8 or 12 or
16 years... It takes decades for the elimination of standards, morals, values & once held sacred
in our country.
Okay.... we're on the "feeling demoralized" page aren't we?
In the 2 previous articles, above, the authors spoke of Americans - those in the United States
of America's educational system - feeling demoralized.
Feeling demoralized is a wonderful choice of words, I do believe.
It proves that this "feeling" that Americans have concerning our public educational system
has accumulated over a long period of time, proving my admonishments of the three last presidents of our great country. When
someone feels, "demoralized," it doesn't happen overnight. Now, of course it can, depending
on the intensity of the offense, but most generally it takes a period of experiencing disturbing, distressing, negative or sub-standard behaviors or actions to feel the actual meaning of "feeling demoralized."
To actually feel demoralized
brings to my mind, a frustrating chain of painful, hurtful, intensely negative blockades being faced, adversity, disenchantment,
disillusionment taking place, a breaking of spirit, a breaking of good will, a foraging for competency amongst those incompetent; it's a
treacherous journey in the bleakness of nothingness.
Check out some of those pages to get the true meanings of them.
Feel the dismal preponderance of bleakness, hopelessness and discouragement when you do check them out. Feeling demoralized
isn't a nice thing. It's a strong description that needs to cause heads to turn, Bush.... I don't care about your websites
concerning your wife's work in the sphere of "No Child Left Behind." Bush, I'm not against your war in Iraq, I'm against not
fixing the educational system, I'm against taking more money from education to finance the war, I'm against the fact that
you're not feeling demoralized concerning the state of our public educational
system. (Hey, Republican Party.... I'm a republican... watch out this next election....)
Okay, we've got it, those
working within our nation's public educational system are feeling demoralized. If they're
feeling demoralized, what kind of attitude can they have when working with our nation's youth? (It would be wise of you to click on the underlined link words, in this particular "I've just gotta say it!")
The smart parents that visit this site may say to themselves..."That's
right, Kathleen, that's why we spend thousands of our hard earned dollars to send our children to private institutions of
learning! The nation's public school systems are horrible! We can't allow our children to be educated there!"
That seems sensible enough, doesn't it?
I say this to both of our Presidents Bush & to President Clinton...
Hillary if you're listening & intending
on running for President, maybe you need to pay attention as well.....
There's a problem in the United States. Parents are
working more & more hours. They're forced to pay thousands of dollars each year to put just one child in a private school
to get a decent education because our public education system sucks.
If there are 2, 3 or 4 children in a family, both parents have
to work. Both parents not only have to work, they both have to work overtime. If their children are in private school, this
means that they're most likely in sports, or other after school activities. They're busy families, they are. They run here,
they run there.... they spend hours driving around from activity to activity, practice to practice, lessons to lessons, games
to games, it's very hectic. They spend lots of money on gas to fuel their larger model cars, vans, or even SUV's.
A parent can begin to feel slightly "demoralized"
when a child of theirs in this situation begins to experience, "anxiety, depression or obsessive compulsive disorder."
They've worked their asses off for the benefit of their children
& somehow, no matter what they've done, the child gets "mentally ill!" Their children aren't happy! Gas prices are soaring,
they need to make more money to maintain their current standards, oh and by the way, college is coming up and tuitions
are rising.
Then they watch television for exactly one hour per week and
on Sunday night, they chose 60 minutes, you know that television show that shows controversial news stories! They see on the
60 minutes show that global warming is hitting a level that is so dangerous that the government doesn't want us to know about
it because we might panic. We find out that the White House is forcing our American Scientists to be censored. Hmmmm.... How
demoralizing is that? Hmmmmm.... it's too demoralizing
to put into words.
Can you imagine
going to school all of the years that it requires to become a scientist working at NASA? Can you imagine discovering a monumental
factor in the future of the world as we know it and when you try to report this very crucial news to the people of the United
States of America, your news is editted by the government to no longer include such words as, "danger?" Can you imagine that
you know the world as we know it could no longer be, if we don't take certain action in the next ten years and the government
keeps you from relaying this information to the American public? Can you imagine feeling more than alittle demoralized in this case, if you're the very intelligent scientist?
Then there are those parents who
are struggling. They're the parents who work in some blue collar jobs... they struggle to pay tuition to private schools.
They're forced to volunteer at their child's school, taking away all their free time to help pay for tuition. Hey! This happens
a lot in private school that have some kind of religious background!!!!
Sometimes Catholic schools offer
parents the opportunities for volunteer work & sometimes they demand it. It's part of the contract that allows your child
to go to the Catholic School. Catholic schools are often famous for their disciplinary tactics. They're so disciplined that
the children that emerge graduates of this type of private school, are free of behavior problems. They're trained right, the
good old fashioned way!
These parents are feeling a bit demoralized
these days, do you know why? They work really hard. They are sweating their blood, sweat and tears into a quality education
for their children. Those Catholics, if they're good Catholics.... have lots of children.
When their children come home from school, they get to find
out how demoralized their children are feeling from going to those Catholic schools. The
teachers are mean. The teachers don't care about their feelings or emotions. The teachers can do anything they want because
the parents of those students, want their kids to behave. It's important to them that they don't turn out like those kids
that go to public school.... there is nothing they can do to change that though...
nothing.... nothing at all....
The parents are feeling demoralized..... they have to get from "point a" to "point b" - every day, driving their huge SUV's all
over east oshkosh to transport their well rounded children who attend their private schools that cost so much that their parents
have to both work, both drive cars to work, both drive many miles to get to their "good paying" jobs that they spend so much
time at & they're feeling shameful & guilty at the same time since they watched television last Sunday night and saw
that show about global warming. They're beginning to realize that they're trapped.
The whole time the parents are
ruining the atmosphere, using fossil fuels everyday, in large amounts because their kids have to go to a private school
& participate in extra after school activities run by the private sector instead of belonging to after school groups that
are sponsored by their neighborhood public school, that by the way, they could "walk" to.
Oh yeah, and
they there's the obese population of the world, finding more and more reasons not to walk somewhere, because of the crime
caused by the demoralized children & parents that have emerged due to the fact that
there's such a poor moral at the public school systems. They can behave any way they want at public school. This causes any
"good" child that goes to public school to begin to feel, "demoralized" as well. They get harrassed, hurt, bullied and have
trouble functioning, studying and going to school in a public school system.
Now don't tell me that this
simple stay at home mom, that's tried even home schooling to educate her children.... has thought of this before the last
three presidents of the United States of America!!!! Now don't tell me that they think that we're all stupid enough
to not know all of this..... Hey Hillary.... want to get elected?
That prospect truly makes me feel "demoralized," but there may be nothing I can do about it.
The Legacy of Psychological Trauma from the Vietnam War for American Indian Military Personnel
A National Center
for PTSD Fact Sheet
The Matsunaga Vietnam Veterans
Project
Military personnel of many ethnic backgrounds served w/distinction in the Vietnam War. The 1988 National Vietnam Veterans
Readjustment Study (NVVRS) demonstrated that Black & Hispanic veterans who served in Vietnam experienced
significantly greater readjustment problems & higher levels of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than White veterans.
To extend the study to other minority veterans, the late Senator from Hawaii, Spark Matsunaga, initiated a major project
to assess the readjustment experiences of American Indian, Japanese American, & Native Hawaiian veterans of the Vietnam
War. This resulted in Public Law 101-507, which directed the VA's National Center for PTSD to conduct what became known as
the Matsunaga Vietnam Veterans Project.
The Matsunaga Project involved two parallel studies. The American Indian Vietnam Veterans Project surveyed a sample
of Vietnam in-country veterans residing on or near two large tribal reservations, one in the Southwest & the other in
the Northern Plains. These populations had sufficient numbers of Vietnam military veterans to draw scientifically & culturally
sound conclusions about the war & readjustment experiences.
The Hawaii Vietnam Veterans Project surveyed two samples, one of Native Hawaiians (the indigenous peoples of the Hawaiian Islands, who constitute about 22% of the
permanent population in Hawaii) & another of Americans
of Japanese Ancestry (the descendants of Japanese
immigrants who comprise about 24% of the permanent population in Hawaii).
Matsunaga study participants were interviewed face-to-face for several hours with culturally sensitive questions about
their prewar & war experiences; their Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & other health problems; their personal, family, work & education readjustment
experiences & their use of Veterans Affairs health care services.
Only men participated because, despite their key contributions to the military, there are few women Vietnam veterans
in these survey populations. Although many American Indian veterans from other tribes & areas of the US served in Vietnam,
in a single study it isn't possible to characterize every possible American Indian tribe or veteran.
The many American Indian experiences & cultures all require recognition & respect. The similarities & differences revealed by surveying hundreds of Vietnam veterans from each of two large
& different tribes bring to life the richness & diversity of the American Indian experience before, during & after
the Vietnam War.
The Matsunaga Study's key finding is that exposure to war zone stress & other military danger places veterans at risk for PTSD several decades after military service. Native Hawaiian & American Indian Vietnam in-country veterans had
relatively high levels of exposure to war zone stress & high levels of PTSD.
Caucasian & Japanese American veterans tended to have somewhat lower levels of exposure to war zone stress & later PTSD.
The unique cultural traditions, society & family experiences of each different ethnic group played an important
role in the veteran's homecoming & readjustment after Vietnam, but they don't appear to either cause or prevent PTSD.
American Indian Veterans' Experiences before
& during the War
"I was a happy, healthy boy & I felt in harmony with my family, my people & the earth because of the teachings my grandfather
shared in traditional ceremonies & that my father shared when we'd go fishing. I grew up in a hurry when I enlisted in
the Marines after high school & I hated being looked down on as an Indian.
I had to swallow the anger & shame when they
jokingly called me Chie
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