Dick Yarbrough
Rogers’comments to the Young Republicans Club at Walker School was reported in Sunday’s MDJ. I am sure he was trying to score points but I have two school teachers in my family and I didn’t hear him say squat about the important role that teachers play in education.
He was quoted as saying, “The way to change education in Georgia and the U.S. is to put the people in charge who care most about the students, and that’s their parents.” My two school teachers will tell you that parents are many times the problem, not the solution. A lot of parents don’t give a damn and consider school a babysitting service. My son admonished one student during class recently for texting while he was trying to get a little science in her head. It turned out the text was from her mother who had some things she wanted her to do after school, even though she knew her daughter was in the middle of class.
And we want to turn education over to her? Get real, Sen. Rogers.
Not once was he quoted as talking about what teachers have to put up with in the classroom.
I like Chip Rogers and I like the candidate he is supporting for State School Superintendant, John Hines, of Cobb County. But what I don’t like is pandering and that is exactly what the senator is doing.
If he and John Hines want my support and those of my kids and their colleagues who do battle every day in our schools while trying to make a difference in young lives, Sen. Rogers might want to give some recognition to school teachers who have to deal with red tape, furloughs, higher expectations, higher insurance premiums and – yes – disinterested parents as well as second-guessing legislators.
Give teachers a break, Sen. Rogers. They deserve better and you know it.
Follow us on Twitter!
The parents and students have some opinion on the teacher's that are most successful in educating their children, but that information was never asked for or used. When school administrators decide to take our teachers, students and parents seriously and stop cramming the next "successful" program on us, I beleive we may see more success and definately greater satisfaction. Satisfaction for both the parents and the teachers.
Thank you for speaking your mind. I am a school teacher and and teach science and your son's story is just typical of what goes on in our classrooms. Senator Rogers, if you really want to help introduce legislation that will force students out of the classroom if they can't follow the rules. I am tired of ignorant politicians who think they know all the answers.
Just a note to the republicans. Even though I consider myself to be a conservative I will do all I can to campaign against your so called teacher incentive pay schedule you think will motivate teachers to do a better job. Its not the teachers who need motivating. Most of us do a great job. Its the students who need the motivating and their parents need night classes on how to be responsible parents. So all you hot shot politicians who want to make a name for yourselves need to quit pandering to the apathetic, tell me what I want to hear so my life will be easier public and ask teachers what can be done to motivate students.
And get the problem kids some help - many do not belong in the classroom
----------