What needs to be initiated in 2009 are Rehabilitation
Centers for teachers who have been worked over by the
education system. These centers would be for teachers who
are still obligated to work within the present system
because of economic necessity. It would assist those
teachers who still must battle with administrative bullying
every day, because they lack of any other employable
skills. This is because of the excessive and unnecessary
amount of time and money they had to devote to prepare to
become a teacher has left them unprepared for any other
constructive work that might actually benefit society.
These new rehabilitation centers would also be for teachers
who have been ‘worked over’ by the system and who have been
severely damaged both psychologically and very often whose
physical health has been compromised as a result exposure
to the suppressive conditions of this career and routine
inhumane treatment. It would also assist displaced
teachers who have been removed from the classroom,
terminated, denied tenure, forced to retire, “reassigned”,
discriminated because of their age or whistle-blowing
and/or falsely accused of crimes and black-balled by school
administrators. Some of these teachers have been disabled
from ever working again, through years of persistent
hostility that exists in the public school classroom.
People must become aware that a sub-culture of disposed
teachers is growing every day in astounding numbers!
Once these teachers have received intensive therapy in
these Rehabilitation Centers, and begin to restore their
sense of worth and self esteem, they should be provided
assistance in finding meaningful work, outside the field of
education. To these teachers, the word "teaching" is a
storehouse of traumatic and tragic memories. A new outlook
on work must provide them with a livable wage, that is, a
living wage - one that is over the poverty level! There
should be assistance, both financially and physically that
would help to fill the void that is left when years of
their lives have been invalidated not by one person, but by
an entire culture of education hierarchy who all consider
themselves the teachers “superiors” and “supervisors”.
Many of these teachers have been wiped out financially by
their decision to go into education. Many have chosen
this as a noble mid-life career change, with disastrous
results, wiping out their former pensions. They should be
compensated for the careers that have been brutally robbed
from them. They should receive compensation for being
psychologically gang raped by school administrators, and by
the state judicial systems that have cooperated in their
disablement. It is not for upholding justice for teachers,
but for protecting school districts that these judicial
agencies exist.
But before any of this can be done, there has to be an end
to the denial that this is what is routinely happening to
our teachers today, and which, like it or not,
detrimentally effets your children! No problem in our
society can be solved unless there is recognition of that
there IS a problem. The system has to stop administrative
vultures that use teachers as a human resource to finance
their pretentious and useless positions, and their corrupt
and lavish life styles. The education industry must now
be recognized as a parallel universe that could match any
Madoff or multi-billion CEO scam.
If taxpayers had to pay for the rehabilitation and damage
that has been done to all the teachers that have been
worked over by all the profiteers, scammers, politicians
and school administrators of our public education system,
maybe our education system could start improve. Maybe we
don’t need more tests, more administrators, more
politicians, more programs, or more books, etc., which are
created by non-educators who don’t have a clue, in an
attempt to fix teachers.
Maybe if the real problem was recognized, perhaps teachers
could crawl out from the bottom of the oppressive food
chain, and maybe once again teachers could be treated like
viable human beings, and maybe we could begin to repair the
decrepit state of our education system.
I remarked in response there needs to be rehabilitation of administrators, but most of them can't be rehabilitated.
Don't expect Obama and Arne to even think of such an idea. Those two are cheerleading the destruction of public education.
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