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We Get What We Get By Bill Page

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Page 1: We Get What We Get By Bill Page. Following is a somewhat blunt, but quite definitive answer to the questions so often asked by frustrated teachers:

We Get What We

GetBy Bill Page

Page 2: We Get What We Get By Bill Page. Following is a somewhat blunt, but quite definitive answer to the questions so often asked by frustrated teachers:

Following is a somewhat blunt, but quite definitive answer to the questions

so often asked by frustrated teachers:

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What should be the parent's level of accountability in their children's education?

What do classroom teachers have the right to require and/or expect from parents in the way

of cooperation, involvement and participation in their child's

learning? If the parents won't see that they get their assignments done and won't come to conferences,

what can I do?

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“The” Answer

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Whether students have four, two,

one or no parents;

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Whether they are reared by grandparents,

relatives, siblings or others;

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Whether they have 16 brothers and

sisters, plus halves and live-in cousins;

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Whether they live in a house, apartment,

project, shelter or station wagon;

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Whether they have clean clothes, good hygienic

habits, and good manners;

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Whether they speak English, sign

language, foreign language, or no

language;

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Whether they are challenged visually, physically, socially,

or mentally;

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Whether they have good interpersonal

skills, social skills or study skills;

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Whether they are

underachievers,

over achievers or

non-achievers;

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Whether their personality,

character, religious beliefs are to our

liking;

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Whether their parents are

literate, retarded or English speaking;

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Makes no difference to educators.

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Given laws of the universe (over which we have no control);Given their inalienable rights (after all, you can't shoot them);Given a hierarchy of government -- from federal to local;Given the laws and bureaucracies governing education;Given rules, policies, procedures, traditions, history, etc.;

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It can all be summed

up in five words:

 

We get what we get!

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Parents get the kids they get.

Kids get the parents they get (or the life they get without parents.)

School districts get the families they get.

Individual schools get the families they get.

Teachers get the students they get.

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And, students get the teachers they

get.

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The way it is,

is the way it is.

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Everyone involved works within the parameters of the

laws, rules, and responsibilities, and even

within what happens outside of those parameters.

Indeed, "We do get what we get."

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We accept our kids. We accept the responsibility.

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We take them as we find them and

develop their potential.

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We teach them what they need --

what we want them to have and to

know.

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We use whatever resources we have

or can find.We develop or create what we

need.

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If the parents are good resources, we

use them.

If they are not, we do it without them.

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Within the politics, mandates, mission,

goals, strategic planning, curriculum, and

educational policies,we take kids where

they are and we teach them.

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We teach them whatever is

required by those rules and within that structure.

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We teach unconditionally -- no excuses, no

exceptions!

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If they lack manners we teach

them manners;

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If they lack study skills and

prerequisite knowledge, or

interpersonal skills, we teach them what they lack.

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If they lack home resources,

materials or breakfast,

we provide it.

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If they lack adequate visual and auditory or

physical capability;If they don't fit our

structure; we change to

accommodate them.

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We offer alternative

methods and procedures.

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Our job is to teach the

kids we have!

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Not the kids we used to have.

Not the kids we would like to have.

Not the kids we dream about.

Not the kids who were like us when we were students.

Not the kids who wear clean clothes.

Not the kids who speak English.

And, not just the kids who have responsible parents.

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Our job is to teach the kids we have -each and every

one.

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The bottom line:

We get what we get!

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Each kid is living the only life he or

she has- the only life he or she will ever

have.

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The least we can do is not demean it or diminish it with our evaluations, actions and attitudes; not relegate him or

her to marginal status; not beat him or her over the

head with his or her weaknesses and past history.

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We can accept him or her unconditionally and

teach him or her whatever he or she

lacks.

Is there any viable alternative?

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Resource

http://teachers.net/gazette/DEC02.Page.html

Thanks to Brian Huffman for sharing this powerful piece.