Skip Crosby provides us with some numbers from Maine about how language teachers basically taught themselves out of jobs because they couldn’t grab and hold kids’ interests. Here is what he wrote:
…when our school opened in 1999 we offered Latin, ASL, French and Spanish. We now only offer Spanish. At one point there were 9 teachers in our department. Now we are 3. It is very real and we sure were not expecting it….
Don’t be naive. Don’t try to blame your loss of your job on the fact that dangerous politicians are trying to break teachers’ unions all over the country. That is only part of it. Really, those teachers lost their students because they played favorites, honoring only a few of their students. They lost their jobs because they were boring.