Fire the lawyers - er, teachers!

Stolen from another source (which I will not credit) and paraphrased:

One of my old teachers told me a good student can overcome a bad teacher but it's very difficult for a good teacher to teach a poor student. If a student wants to learn, the can be taught by anyone, assuming they don't have a some great disability preventing them from learning. There are many variables teachers have no control over: poverty, home situations, student choices (like drugs, cell phone use, or staying up late) and to blame the teachers alone is to be unfair and dishonest. If the people who think it is the teachers alone who are failing in the schools, those people would have a different opinion if they spent a little time in their [teachers']shoes in the front of the classroom.

Funsucker is not a bad teacher. I hate "working' with her (and I use the term loosely) but she is the right teacher for some students. She is not playing her strong suit to insist on teaching in a general ed classroom because she doesn't teach on-level. She is slow, rigid, pedantic, methodical. And condescending.

But there have been bad teachers in my past: the one who cried and was unable to discipline the class enough to teach anyone anything; the one who drank and again couldn't discipline; the special ed teacher who showed movies in her small group class (nothing remotely related to the curriculum); the one who came in to a working department (one that had it all together and moved seamlessly), convinced that she knew it all - and then cussed her students out; the teacher who hauled the 5 kids who failed a state test to the front of the room, announced their scores to the class, and humiliated them. Most of those are no longer teaching.