Something Different

Ok so my last blog ended wierd, that was due to unforseen technical diffeiculty that I will fix asap.  For this blog I am no going to look exactly at the reading instead I am going to talk about something different as stated in the title.  While the reading that we did was greatly informative and gave a deeper insight into teaching and talking while I did not really think the title was that great.  I feel that we as teachers do not realize the true amount of work that we will have to face when entering our fields.  This is brought on mostly from our work on monday.  We saw children who for all sense of what we could see were not cared about, and saw a few shining stars that helped them.  However one thing that I have noticed is that most of us planning to be teachers all want to be that star to help these students in any way possible, so what is to say that these children do not already have teachers trying to help.  What we should realize is that the idea of teaching to change lives is not a new concept that we are not pioneers that will change the field.  The real problem is that when it all boils down we are hired to teach a set of cirriculum and anything after the fact is bonus.  Yes, we will reach students and have profound effects either way simply because we will work so hard for these kids.  However the system itself is what is setting us up to have such high hopes only to crush them with the various standards and obligations to the state.  I'm not trying to be a downer just a realist that we are going to be facing what seems like insurmountable odds when we are trying to not only teach the standards, but also help those students that we see need to be helped.  I am not trying to crush any dreams or make it seem pointless, I am only saying that we are only providing a bandage to the system by enabling it to exist in the state that it is in.  This may be why I am considering administration in my future, but we should not aim to just fix students or classes we should aim to fix the school and how it is run and viewed entirely.  We can make it so every child succeeds and doesn't lose hope from waiting for that angel teacher to save them.