Cuts in benefits, lagging pay and the "Parents' Bill of Rights." All have diminished trust in her profession, said Jeanne DeJong, who represents a trend in early teacher departures.
Dan, your article made me want to be in Jeanne’s class. She is an artist, combining fun, skill training, history, science, experimentation, freedom to make discoveries, multiple ways to take in and master learning and deep knowledge of her students. This article about her is both INSPIRATIONAL and TRAGIC. I hope she finds ways in a well deserved retirement to find a way to advocate for her education & teaching vision. If not, she has planted 100’s and 100’s of fertile seeds. Thank you Jeanne DeJong! P.S. On my way to checking out Birchbark House.
Another excellent, insightful feature, Dan. My wife and I were so happy that our daughter had Jeanne DeJong as one of her teachers. It's shameful what the current educational system is doing to high-quality, well-intended teachers like Jeanne. Our teachers and students deserve much better!
So she pouted over parental rights so shes going to retire a year too early to get retirement? Not buying that one.
Her attitude is s perfect example of WHY teachers need to be reeducated to understand parental rights out rank both her's and the government's.
I'm also sick of teachers complaining about salary. Aside from working half the hours and getting good to great pay, NC teachers are the highest paid college graduates their first year. They get about 32k per year per teacher in benefits alone not including pay. Not only that but they're doing a TERRIBLE JOB. 30% of all black students alone aren't passing the SAT etc.
I'm tired of this constant poor me attitude to get more money and less accountability.
Happy retirement. Yes, give the young people a chance to start their teaching career
the teacher made 70k, for what is basically a half year job, the school year is 182 days, teachers get long christmas and spring breaks and all holidays off, same as the students; what books did she herself remove from the classroom? she was not forced to remove any books was she? why shouldnt the parents be involved in what is taught? she doesn't say; what in particular does she not like about the parents bill of rights law? and why ? again, she doesnt say. doe she not know that the parents bill of rights came about because of what some , or many, teachers were teaching , even if she herself was not, so what is her actual complaint?
In my own high school biology class, an under-performing student - a guy who just sat in the back staring at the wall - finally came alive when the lesson on evolution came around. The poor kid just shouted EVOLUTION IS A LIE!! and continued to yell about how evolution is false and wrong and wasn't A LAW. It was jarring to the students because of the hostility and the fact that the poor kid was otherwise checked out from learning anything about biology. The poor kid clearly did not form his own opinion on evolution.
The poor teacher was clearly aware that next she'd have a bunch of idiotic parents showing up at the next school open house to yell about Teaching Things To Students. Not to help educate children or support anything at all, but to show up metaphorically wearing road cones on their heads while demanding to be taken seriously as adults. "ITS NOT A CONE HATS ARE MADE TOO SMALL!!". Absolutely absurd.
Similarly, "Parent's Bill of Rights" rings hollow for every person in the world who has had to deal with (or was born into a family with) a cone-wearing parent that opted-out of education long before they were born. Educators should be elevated in our society, not treated like "customer is always right" commodities or relegated to only teaching what cone-wearing parents have a chance at understanding.
Dan, your article made me want to be in Jeanne’s class. She is an artist, combining fun, skill training, history, science, experimentation, freedom to make discoveries, multiple ways to take in and master learning and deep knowledge of her students. This article about her is both INSPIRATIONAL and TRAGIC. I hope she finds ways in a well deserved retirement to find a way to advocate for her education & teaching vision. If not, she has planted 100’s and 100’s of fertile seeds. Thank you Jeanne DeJong! P.S. On my way to checking out Birchbark House.
Another excellent, insightful feature, Dan. My wife and I were so happy that our daughter had Jeanne DeJong as one of her teachers. It's shameful what the current educational system is doing to high-quality, well-intended teachers like Jeanne. Our teachers and students deserve much better!
So she pouted over parental rights so shes going to retire a year too early to get retirement? Not buying that one.
Her attitude is s perfect example of WHY teachers need to be reeducated to understand parental rights out rank both her's and the government's.
I'm also sick of teachers complaining about salary. Aside from working half the hours and getting good to great pay, NC teachers are the highest paid college graduates their first year. They get about 32k per year per teacher in benefits alone not including pay. Not only that but they're doing a TERRIBLE JOB. 30% of all black students alone aren't passing the SAT etc.
I'm tired of this constant poor me attitude to get more money and less accountability.
Happy retirement. Yes, give the young people a chance to start their teaching career
https://nypost.com/2024/02/16/opinion/the-nyt-finally-admits-it-schools-are-teaching-our-kids-divisive-critical-race-theory/
the teacher made 70k, for what is basically a half year job, the school year is 182 days, teachers get long christmas and spring breaks and all holidays off, same as the students; what books did she herself remove from the classroom? she was not forced to remove any books was she? why shouldnt the parents be involved in what is taught? she doesn't say; what in particular does she not like about the parents bill of rights law? and why ? again, she doesnt say. doe she not know that the parents bill of rights came about because of what some , or many, teachers were teaching , even if she herself was not, so what is her actual complaint?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL0s2X04G0A; here is a video about how schjools are dumbing down students
In my own high school biology class, an under-performing student - a guy who just sat in the back staring at the wall - finally came alive when the lesson on evolution came around. The poor kid just shouted EVOLUTION IS A LIE!! and continued to yell about how evolution is false and wrong and wasn't A LAW. It was jarring to the students because of the hostility and the fact that the poor kid was otherwise checked out from learning anything about biology. The poor kid clearly did not form his own opinion on evolution.
The poor teacher was clearly aware that next she'd have a bunch of idiotic parents showing up at the next school open house to yell about Teaching Things To Students. Not to help educate children or support anything at all, but to show up metaphorically wearing road cones on their heads while demanding to be taken seriously as adults. "ITS NOT A CONE HATS ARE MADE TOO SMALL!!". Absolutely absurd.
Similarly, "Parent's Bill of Rights" rings hollow for every person in the world who has had to deal with (or was born into a family with) a cone-wearing parent that opted-out of education long before they were born. Educators should be elevated in our society, not treated like "customer is always right" commodities or relegated to only teaching what cone-wearing parents have a chance at understanding.