Leftist Teacher Worries About Parents Listening in on Virtual Classes

[John6185]

I liked it when they taught the subjects and left out personal opinion. If I had a child today in school and a teacher took a little extra effort explaining how to do a math problem or something the child didn't quite understand, I would encourage the child to thank the teacher. I'm now 76 years old and a teacher took extra time with me explaining how to do math problems and I've never forgotten him. I failed to thank him and have regretted it all these years. If I could find his daughter I would thank her...

 

[Glock 40]

Rural, private, etc is still pretty conservative and will have many teachers that are not part of the OEA even............inner city, large districts, will have many teachers that would run out into traffic if the OEA said to, and is where you'll find the greatest concentration of socialists teaching kids.

My wife caught all kinds of hell from one of her principles because she wouldn't join the union and donate to united way. She ended up getting fired a couple years latter after my wife and I moved.

 

[SoonerP226]

Rotflmao!! Homeschool ...

I thought my brother and his wife were crazy to homeschool their kids. These days I'm not so sure...

 

[Okie4570]

My wife caught all kinds of hell from one of her principles because she wouldn't join the union and donate to united way. She ended up getting fired a couple years latter after my wife and I moved.

Was the principal a lady? Generally administration never joined OEA, that was for teachers only. Or at least that was the way it was years ago.

 

[SoonerP226]

I hadn't thought of this but I can see why some teachers are "worried". [emoji1]

When I was in high school, my next door neighbor (a professional engineer and owner of an engineering company) had a conference with his daughter's 5th grade math teacher over the mistakes the teacher was making in grading his daughter's homework. Strangely enough, I'd had that same math teacher, and he was a pretty good teacher then, but I guess he'd deteriorated over the intervening years.

I know one professor (now retired) who didn't want his classes recorded because he was afraid his students would go over it and find his misstatements. His students actually loved him (he was a genuinely great guy, and a great teacher), but he was probably right; there's always one a-hole in any crowd...

 

[dlbleak]

Both of my kids loved history and were in AP classes. One had a great experience and one had a terrible experience. After about 3 meetings, a dozen phone calls and a few emails. The terrible teacher doesn’t teach history any more.

 

[TerryMiller]

I always appreciate insights about this topic that come from right here in Oklahoma. We may be incorrectly assuming public education here is the same as on the coasts.

As an afterthought to your statement, I was a school board member way back in the '80's. We had at least one teacher that was REALLY pro teacher's union and argued with us regularly. We also had a teacher that was teaching computer programming in BASIC. She knew that I was somewhat into that, having attended a night class at the school on the subject. She also knew that my wife was taking computer classes in college at the same time. She gave our son an "F" on his BASIC program because she was absolutely sure that we were helping him. We weren't.

Point is, don't assume either way. It very well could be the same here as on the coasts.