monday, april 27, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 5
'Hurt' Post
Glen & Shearer column maligned teachers
While there are certainly enough dis
interested teachers to go around, the major
problem in education is not teacher perfor
mance but the educational systems that
support mediocrity and fail to keep com
petent teachers in the classroom (Glen &
Shearer, April 21).
Although most departments have their
share of "dippy' courses, I would definite
ly have preferred taking practical classes in
leading discussions, teaching through
games, and understanding child psychology
(hardly dippy at all and which I could put
to immediate use) to the long forgotten
"History of Education" (which I could
not). Besides, what makes Glen & Shearer
think (good) teaching is any less "strenu
ous" or courageous than working in the
business, science or language areas? Have
they ever faced a room full of 30 kids?
The New York City Board of Educa
tion, for example, exists to save money and
to serve administrators, not its students
and teachers. The Board will lay off hund
reds of teachers while it hires scores of new
administrators (to administer to each
other, one assumes). It will hire teachers
for their special experience, then find some
reason to deny them payment for that
Experience. The Board will pay you for
your degree after you spend nine months
fighting for your contractual rights to get
the money. It will hire you to teach one
kind of student, and present you with
another. It will want you to do this and to
do that, but won't give you the materials
with which to do it (buy your own: they'll
reimburse you . . . some day). When you
can't provide students with education they
need, don't have administrative support,
and aren't paid for your achievements, you
either become numb or leave for higher
salaries, less strenuous jobs (perhaps in bus
iness, science or the language arts).
If you want teachers images to im
prove, don't promote that "teaching is an
easy washout dead-end career" stuff. There
are washouts in any profession. Most of the
teachers 1 have worked with in New York,
New Jersey, San Francisco and here in
Lincoln are concerned about what happens
in their classes and spent a good deal of
time after hours preparing the most suc
cessful lessons they can. If the teachers
who remain in the system are ineffective, it
is more often the fault of the system than
the teachers or the courses they took. It is
the administration's responsibility to do
the best it can to keep the best it has.
Don Kaplan
Artist in Residence
Centennial Education Program
Visions of an Iranian court in America
A Congressional Subcommittee is
supposed to establish when life begins. I
think their minds were made up before
they started. Only anti-choice advocates
were admitted and when six pro-choice
advocates barged in to be heard, they were
quickly thrown out.
Ahh, visions of an Iranian court.
Robert Gilliam
Senior, Geography
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There is, in brief, a feeling across this
city that the Washington Pust practices a
sophisticated form of Gonzo journalism,
that you can spend a lifetime doing good
works but get caught once slipping on a
banana peel, and that is the only time
in your life you will be written up by the
Washington Post.
"It hurts. It hurts . . cried one writer
for the Post. Another veteran said tears
came to his eyes when he heard the news
that Janet Cooke had fabricated her story,
that the Pulitzer Prize had been stolen,
that the Post's credibility, its most precious
asset, had been damaged.
Well, probably, it does "hurt." And,
surely, it is uncharitable and un-Christian
of some of us, with Easter Week just past
to exult in the misfortunes of the Post
management, and to throw a party (as
some of my brethren did) to celebrate.
But the folks at the Post, who participa
ted in the investigation of "How Could It
Happen?" should ask themselves other
questions: How. many people has the
Washington Post "hurt?" Why is it that
a whole city-which the Washington Post
claims to serve-appears so elated at its
misfortune?
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