A guarantee meaningful to new teachers should come from their more experienced colleagues. We promise to invite you to our after-school gatherings and to introduce you with gusto when you arrive. We promise to help you circumnavigate the campus and also such rules as must be circumvented. And on those days when an errant child has caused you to forget, we promise to remind you why you became a teacher in the first place. We solemnly swear to be there when you need us.
New teachers deserve nothing less.
She candidly describes the frustrations most teachers feel because of the federal government's interference in our classrooms. I believe that teachers are leaving the profession not only because of low salaries, but also because of the frustrations imposed on us by federal regulations, as interpreted and misinterpreted by those around us. The methods of education making news as we enter the 21st century appear to be basically the same as when we entered the 20th century. Reform revolves around calls for grade retention and teaching phonics. The next level of expertise involves a desire to maintain the sanctity of the safe, conventional classroom, that oasis that offers our children a temporary stay against confusion.