Fw: for teachers

["Linda Pall" <lpall@moscow.com>]

Dear Visionaries,

Given the difficulty of the discussion about school budgets and the desire
of some of us to cheer those in the trenches of the schools who try to do a
great job, sometimes under far less than great circumstances, my Oregon
friend sent this along and I thought you might wish to see it as well. If
not, the delete button is always available.

Thanks, teachers... I appreciate you.

All the best,
Linda



----- Original Message -----
From: "DColcord" <dswan@wcn.net>
To: <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:04 PM
Subject: for teachers


> Subject: Survivor
>
> Have you heard about the next planned Survivor show?
> Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped
> in an elementary school classroom for 6 weeks. Each
> business person will be provided with a copy of their
> school district's curriculum, and a class of 28 students.
>
> Each class will have five learning-disabled children,
> three with A.D.D., one gifted child, and two who speak
> limited English. Three will be labeled as 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 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 supervise recess and monitor the
> hallways. In addition, they will complete drills for fire,
> tornadoes, and shooting attacks.
>
> They must attend workshops, faculty meetings, union meetings, and
> curriculum development meetings. They must also tutor those students who
are
> behind and strive to get their non-English speaking children  proficient
> enough to take the Terra Nova and EPA 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 stimulatingenvironment at all times.
>
> The business people will only have access to the golf course on the
> weekends, but on their new salary they will not be able to afford it
> anyway. There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to
> lunch, and lunch will be limited to 30 minutes. When they do not
> have recess duty, the business people will be permitted to use the staff
> restroom as long as another survival candidate is supervising their
> classroom.
>
> They will be provided with two 40-minute planning periods per week
> while their students are at specials. If the copier is operable, they may
> make copies of necessary materials at this time. The business people must
> continually advance their education on their own time and pay for this
> advanced training themselves. This can be accomplished by moonlighting at
a
> second job or marrying someone with money. The winner will be allowed to
> return to his or her job.
>
> Pass this to your friends who think teaching is easy and to the ones that
> know it is hard. They will both benefit.
>
>