Morgan Spurlock opens up with retelling his upbringing with all his family members being teachers. Stating they would trade stories about the difficulties about teaching but none of them giving up. “50% of teachers quit in the first 3 years”. First day of school shows various first time teachers and how they interact with the students. A couple of them show no positive feedback from the students. Painfully watching a teacher trying to lead his first class, the teacher is getting no response from the students. It shows the teachers in the lounge and it shows that the teachers themselves are not proficient in high school subjects. It also shows a first time Assistant Principal that seems way over her head. It shows how the teachers deal with their relationship with their students.
A struggling history teacher has trouble keeping his students in order when multiple verbal fights break out disrupting class. The teacher stopped students after class asking them since they knew more than he did to try to stay at a lower level to make him look better. The teachers show very similar characteristics with high school students especially when the asst. principal starts to match making fellow teachers. A teacher went to a disruptive student’s house to speak with his parents and instead of being professional with the parent he drank wine with the mother and son. The new assistant principal shows unprofessional relationship with her friend Coach Webb and they partake in arguments in the office in front of their peers. Mr. Lowery who was always struggling with controlling his students finds later in the year opportunities to connect with them by participating in slang spelling bees and even tries to rap a long with them.
Even the movie was not a real but it’s based on a lot of the common occurrences that happen in K-12 schools. Teachers that come in as very young inexperienced professionals that are pushed in front of a group of yearning students and they’re not up to the task at first. Almost half a year is wasted in letting the chemistry with the teacher to teacher and teacher to student relationships to form a healthy bond. A lot of the teachers act in very kid like fashion in front of peers and the students that will come across as unprofessional and immature. It also shows how much time a teacher spends trying to prepare for the class and how much of the job they take home. The assistant principal was staying up working on her job every day until 10:30pm and the strain was very noticeable.
Yes, that is so true, I think that kids learn from example way more then we thing and way more then they even know.
ReplyDeleteIts like all the year is wasted after the kids come back from summer and have forgotten how to behave. It doesn't help having an inexperienced teacher come in and not know how to make the children respect and listen to him.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how much we will pick up from our so called "superiors", in a work place, school or elsewhere. There is a habit of poking the boundaries and taking every inch given. When you see that a "role model" curses there are those that will take that as their queue to curse as well. The issue with this is there are often times where with each successive layer as it were will push it even further until the original taboo no longer exists. Getting back on topic, this works with teachers that are inexperienced as well, the students can usually tell that the teacher is not in control and will usually take advantage of this wasting valuable time.
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