As a high school English teacher I only have one (sad thing) to contribute here. We're strongly discouraged from teaching grammar... since the administration "knows" it is boring and cannot hold student interest. If a subject or lesson cannot (or does not) keep every child in the classroom entertained, no matter how diverse the population, then the teacher is faulted.
On the other hand, be glad they've got laptops to keep them entertained. Yay!
Meh.
Well, I have it a LITTLE better than you. I teach in a magnet school. I don't have to focus AS MUCH on entertaining the students, but I can't do anything CRAZY like teach sentence diagramming.
I don't want to sound too old, but text messaging has done so much damage to the field of written communication. It also doesn't help that most of my students are too lazy to press the fracking spell-check button.
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As a high school English teacher I only have one (sad thing) to contribute here. We're strongly discouraged from teaching grammar... since the administration "knows" it is boring and cannot hold student interest. If a subject or lesson cannot (or does not) keep every child in the classroom entertained, no matter how diverse the population, then the teacher is faulted.
On the other hand, be glad they've got laptops to keep them entertained. Yay!
Meh.
Well, I have it a LITTLE better than you. I teach in a magnet school. I don't have to focus AS MUCH on entertaining the students, but I can't do anything CRAZY like teach sentence diagramming. I don't want to sound too old, but text messaging has done so much damage to the field of written communication. It also doesn't help that most of my students are too lazy to press the fracking spell-check button.