For my teacher friends: The way it REALLY is!

For my teacher friends:   The way it REALLY is!

Next Season on Survivor

Have you heard about the next planned "Survivor" show?

Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped in an elementary
school classroom for 1 school year.  Each business person will be provided with
a copy of his/her school district's curriculum, and a class of 20-25 students.
Each class will have a minimum of five learning-disabled children, three with
A.D.H.D., one gifted child, and two who speak limited English. Three students
will be labeled with severe behavior problems.

Each business person must complete lesson plans at least 3 days in advance, with
annotations for curriculum objectives and modify, organize, or create their
materials accordingly. They will be required to teach students, handle
misconduct, implement technology, document attendance, write referrals, correct
homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, complete report cards, document
benchmarks, communicate with parents, and arrange parent conferences. They must
also stand in their doorway between class changes to monitor the hallways.

In addition, they will complete fire drills, tornado drills, and [Code Red]
drills for shooting attacks each month. They must attend workshops, faculty meetings,
and attend curriculum development meetings. They must also tutor students who
are behind and strive to get their 2 non-English speaking children proficient enough to take the SOLS tests. 

If they are sick or having a bad day they must not let it show.
Each day they must incorporate reading, writing, math, science, and social
studies into the program. They must maintain discipline and provide an
educationally stimulating environment to motivate students at all times.  If all
students do not wish to cooperate, work, or learn, the teacher will be held
responsible.

The business people will only have access to the public golf course on the
weekends, but with their new salary, they will not be able to afford it.  There 
will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch, and lunch will
be limited to thirty minutes, which is not counted as part of their work day. 
The business people will be permitted to use a student restroom, as long as
another survival candidate can supervise their class.

If the copier is operable, they may make copies of necessary materials before,
or after, school. However, they cannot surpass their monthly limit of copies. 
The business people must continually advance their education, at their expense,
and on their own time.

The winner of this Season of Survivor will be allowed to return to their job.
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Pass this to your friends who think teaching is easy, and to the ones that know
it is hard. If you know Gov. Christie's e-mail address, please send him a copy
too.  Maybe if he sees it, he'll believe it and stop blaming teachers.