Comments on: No Teachers Left Behind

By: Saturday Review of Books: May 9, 2009 at Semicolon

Saturday Review of Books: May 9, 2009 at Semicolon — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:18:19 +0000

[...] Lancaster County)7. 5M4B (Dough: A Memoir)8. 5M4B (Allie Fortune Mysteries)9. 5M4B (Sea Changes)10. 5M4B (No Teachers Left Behind)11. SuziQoregon (The Various Haunts of Men)12. gautami tripathy (Random Acts of Heroic Love)13. [...]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:18:16 +0000

Thank you for this review. I did not know this book existed. These things definitely happen. I have been a teacher for over 3 years now and I have had a wonderful principal and I have had a principal who could care less. The school system is full of hypocrisy, greed, and the school board (which runs things down here in NC) is full of people who have no children in the public school system so they are far removed from the problems. Parents are the worst, no offense. But pre-k and kindergarten teachers, like myself, often say teaching wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the parents. (We typically interact with parents on a daily basis at this age.) This book may be exaggerations, but it may not be. When I was in a practicum while still in college, I worked in a school where the principal was stealing money from the school. Yes. It happens very often, and unfortunately, a disproportionate amount happens in disadvantaged schools. I may have to read this book just to see what this teacher experienced. Again, thanks for the review.

By: Carrie, Reading to Know

Carrie, Reading to Know — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:24:02 +0000

I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this book. I was wondering what your take on it would be. Thanks for sharing!

By: Krista

Krista — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:32:36 +0000

This sounds fascinating. As the wife of a public high school math teacher and a former teacher myself I just wish we could throw the tests out the window!!! The kids don’t care about the results and it just reflects poorly on the teachers. There’s so much more depth to what goes on in schools than the government will ever be able to regulate. I applaud the idea of trying to make all schools equal, but until we can pay good teachers enough to stay in the system, lower the class sizes, and really care about the kids, I’m afraid this broken system is all we’ve got.

By: Vera

Vera — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:29:13 +0000

I recently read No Teachers Left Behind, and as the best friend of a middle school teacher, I found this book to be right on point in some areas. As Dawn mentioned in her review, you can only wonder how much of HBF Teacher’s writing is real while praying that most of it is untrue.