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In an email from my sis-
Next Season on Survivor
Have you heard about the next planned "Survivor" show? Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped in an elementary school classroom for 1 school year. Each business person will be provided with a copy of his/her school district's curriculum, and a class of 28 - 32 students. Each class will have a minimum of five learning-disabled children, three with A.D.D., one gifted child, and two who speak limited English. Three students will be labeled with severe behavior problems. Each business person must complete lesson plans at least 3 days in advance, with annotations for curriculum objectives and modify, organize, or create their materials accordingly. They will be required to teach students, handle misconduct, implement technology, document attendance, write referrals, correct homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, complete report cards, document benchmarks, communicate with parents, and arrange parent conferences. They must also stand in their doorway between class changes to monitor the hallways. In addition, they will complete fire drills, tornado drills, and [Code Red] drills for shooting attacks each month. They must attend workshops, faculty meetings,and attend curriculum development meetings. They must also tutor students who are behind and strive to get their 2 non-English speaking children proficient enough to take the Terra Nova and AIMS tests. If they are sick or having a bad day they must not let it show. Each day they must incorporate reading, writing, math, science, and social studies into the program. They must maintain discipline and provide an educationally stimulating environment to motivate students at all times. If all students do not wish to cooperate, work, or learn, the teacher will be held responsible. The business people will only have access to the public golf course on the weekends, but with their new salary, they may not be able to afford it. There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch, and lunch will be limited to thirty minutes, which is not counted as part of their work day. The business people will be permitted to use a student restroom, as long as another survival candidate can supervise their class. If the copier is operable, they may make copies of necessary materials before, or after, school. However, they cannot surpass their monthly limit of copies. The business people must continually advance their education, at their expense, and on their own time. The winner of this Season of Survivor will be allowed to return to their job.
Next Season on Survivor
Have you heard about the next planned "Survivor" show? Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped in an elementary school classroom for 1 school year. Each business person will be provided with a copy of his/her school district's curriculum, and a class of 28 - 32 students. Each class will have a minimum of five learning-disabled children, three with A.D.D., one gifted child, and two who speak limited English. Three students will be labeled with severe behavior problems. Each business person must complete lesson plans at least 3 days in advance, with annotations for curriculum objectives and modify, organize, or create their materials accordingly. They will be required to teach students, handle misconduct, implement technology, document attendance, write referrals, correct homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, complete report cards, document benchmarks, communicate with parents, and arrange parent conferences. They must also stand in their doorway between class changes to monitor the hallways. In addition, they will complete fire drills, tornado drills, and [Code Red] drills for shooting attacks each month. They must attend workshops, faculty meetings,and attend curriculum development meetings. They must also tutor students who are behind and strive to get their 2 non-English speaking children proficient enough to take the Terra Nova and AIMS tests. If they are sick or having a bad day they must not let it show. Each day they must incorporate reading, writing, math, science, and social studies into the program. They must maintain discipline and provide an educationally stimulating environment to motivate students at all times. If all students do not wish to cooperate, work, or learn, the teacher will be held responsible. The business people will only have access to the public golf course on the weekends, but with their new salary, they may not be able to afford it. There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch, and lunch will be limited to thirty minutes, which is not counted as part of their work day. The business people will be permitted to use a student restroom, as long as another survival candidate can supervise their class. If the copier is operable, they may make copies of necessary materials before, or after, school. However, they cannot surpass their monthly limit of copies. The business people must continually advance their education, at their expense, and on their own time. The winner of this Season of Survivor will be allowed to return to their job.
posted by Unknown at 8:40 AM
5 Comments:
This sounds like the toughest Survivor yet. The jungle is easier to figure out than the workings of a classroom of different kids.God bless those wonderful teachers who love, inspire, and teach our children in spite of all the junk they must complete.
I'm sending this to every teacher I know.
I was on that show and won't be applying for another season.
That is hilarious!!!!! I wish I could show that to a girl I've been hearing lately trashing our local schools all to pieces. She's got five kids, she's only 23 years old. She's decided that she's going to take her three school age kids out of public schools next year and home school them because the teachers are ..get this--"overpaid" and she doesn't think they deserve or need any spring break or most of their summer break as well. She says she has looked at the home school curriculum and it will be "easy for her to teach her kids everything they need to know in just a few hours a day" and that she plans to send them back to public school when they reach high school and she is certain that they will all be well above the level of all the other students by then. (note, she dropped out of school at 16 to have a baby, got her GED a few years later.) There are just some people I'd like to grab by the shoulders and shake their whiny, childish, naive little bobbleheads until they either smarten up, or pass out. haha.
School teachers have one of the hardest jobs in the world, I know I couldn't handle it, and I prefer to leave that job up to the people who are qualified and better at it than I ever could be. So tired of hearing people complain about teachers and accuse them of being overpaid, and lazy, and having it "easy", and whining about taxes because they want their local schools to be the best of the best, but they don't want to pay for it. I am happy to vote for our levies if it means teachers will get a raise. :-)
This was an amazing post! I was entered in the high school version of this show for 14 years and also will not be applying to return next season.
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