drive by teaching
you know, every time i watch Boston Public, my impression of today's youth and life as a teacher get more and more negative. i mean, don't get me wrong, i want to be a teacher. but after a season or two of that show, there's no way in hell i would want to teach public high school. hell no. college, thanks. hahah. certainly not in inner city boston? i wonder what the city of boston thinks of that show? it can't do much for their recruitment of teachers, that's for sure. actually, i like the show. but it's awfully overdramatic don't you think? i mean, every episode involves no less than three horrible catastrophes. it's like ten year's worth of any other "real" school's drama, all balled up into one hour long easily digestable chunks. drug crimes/OD, gang murders, drive by shootings, kids in porn, kids sleeping with teachers, tons of fights, parental abuse, racisim and on and on and on. it's crazy. if i went to that high school, id be sick every day, all year long. no thanks. it's like the bermuda triangle of high schools. i just think it does a real injustice to teaching in general. i mean, a field that is woefully understaffed, underpaid and disrespected, this can't be doing much for their image. hmpf. future teachers of america clubs all over the country should be protesting. :) but, then again, it's not like this is the first school drama. oh well, maybe it's just me. i just get sick of violence i guess. but then, im from a small town in north carolina. not exactly south central over here. riiight. buhbye.
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