Over worked and under paid, but that's not the problem!

Books about Peace Therapy activities

Learning Conflict Resolution - A teacher where I work took classes on conflict resolution and she went to the state finals for teacher of the year. Maybe there is something to this.

The Peace Newsletter - in case you are as serious at finding a solution to our current unrest with education.

The whole story seems to stack up like this. Teachers 20 years ago,were hired to teach, to be enthusiastic and compel the students to want to achieve their utmost. Today, not only are we hired to teach, we are "expected" to provide guidance and skills in some of the areas that most parents used to be in charge of - manners, etiquette, grooming, hygiene, respect, and the list goes on.

So, what's wrong with the youth of today? Allow me to quote Hillary Clinton: "It takes a village to raise a child."

The Importance of the Parental Involvement and Music Education

You want better education for your children? Then please do NOT be deceived by the Republican Party and the Christian Coalition who want to make us think we will actually get a pay raise, while they busily segregate our upper echelon kids away to private schools and think we'll be happy. It's all about them not wanting their kids mixed with the less fortunate kids. It's a pay off, my friend, not a pay raise. It's not more money that will make us better teachers and it's not whether you teach in a private school or a public school. It's how much responsibility we ALL choose to bear from birth throughout graduation that makes the greatest difference in a child's life.

My expertise is educating children about the language of music and to instill in them the desire to want more, to learn more, to grow and be productive, and hopefully learn to be kinder and more accepting of one another. I am not a parent and I won't be in this lifetime.

It's so easy to point fingers. It's not so easy to walk in the other person's mocassins. It's so easy to judge the education system, but when you, as a teacher, know you have done your best, the accusations sting less.