Response to Intervention (RTI)
The latest program set up by our district to ‘help’ struggling students. The process involves mountains of paperwork and 15 – 18 weeks of documentation. Students can be referred to the program if they failed either Math or Reading TAKS, have behavior issues or if they failed the first semester this year. Ms. FL gave a directive that we had to implement the process –one of my colleagues had 17 failures! This teacher has to list all strategies used, how long she used them, and did they work.
Notice, I have not mentioned the student’s role in all of this. Why? There is NO accountability for them. WE TEACHERS are at fault. Never mind that little Susie or Tommy never turns in homework or completes class work! The mantra is always thrown at us: “You didn’t do enough for the student; your lessons must be boring.”
I had only one failure but here’s the catch: this individual NEVER came to school! How the hell can I document what I did to help when there was no one to assist? Granted, I had this student for 6th and 7th grade, Ms. Perky last year for 8th and me for 8th again ‘cuz said student didn’t show up last year, either!
My version of RTI- roadway to insanity!
That is all,
~ba~
2 comments:
That'd be exactly why I HATE nickleby. Rotten punka$$ has done nothing but make our lives miserable by absolving the kids of any and all responsibility.
Sheesh.
Oh, no. See, did you go over to that student's house and pull their behind out of bed and then brush their teeth and put out clean undies and then personally drive the student to school and then shepherd him/her into each and every on of his/her classes personally,a dn then take him home with you so that you could personally monitor his/her progress and then pack his/her backpack with the completed ork and then personally make sure that it got turned in?
Because until you've done that, you haven't done enough!
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