>This came from my wife who is a high school math teacher. Life at 
>UTC can be rugged, but I think that it is better than this scenario.


Mike Russell

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>>Have you heard about the next planned "Survivor" show?
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>>Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped into 3 elementary
>>school classrooms for 6 weeks. Each business person will be provided with a
>>copy of his/her school district's curriculum, and a class of 28 students.
>>Each class will have five learning-disabled children, three with A.D.D.,
>>one gifted child, and two who speak limited English. Three will be 
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>>severe behavior problems.
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>>Each business person must complete lesson plans at least 3 days in advance
>>with annotations for curriculum objectives and modify, organize, or create
>>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, for starters.
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>>They must also supervise recess and monitor the hallways. In addition, they
>>will complete drills for fire, tornadoes, and shooting attacks.
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>>They must attend 100 hours of workshops, faculty meetings, union meetings,
>>and curriculum development meetings.
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>>They must also tutor those students who are behind and strive to get their
>>2 non-English speaking children proficient enough to take the TAKS tests.
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>>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 their program. They must maintain discipline and provide an
>>educationally stimulating environment at all times.
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>>The business people will only have access to the golf course on the
>>weekends, but on their new salary they will not be able to afford it
>>anyway.
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>>There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch, and
>>lunch will be limited to 30 minutes.
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>>On days when they do not have recess duty, the business people will be
>>permitted to use the staff restroom as long as another survival candidate
>>is supervising their class.
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>>They will be provided with two, 40-minute planning periods per week while
>>their students are at activity classes. If the copier is operable, they may
>>make copies of necessary materials at this time.
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>>The business people must continually advance their own education on their
>>own time, and pay for this advanced training themselves. This can be
>>accomplished by moonlighting at a second job or marrying someone with
>>money.
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>>The winner will be allowed to return to his or her former job.
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>>WAY TO GO... THANK YOU TEACHERS...
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James M. (Mike) Russell
Professor & Head
Department of History
Dept. Mail Code #2052
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403

Phone: 425-4579
Home: 517-0645

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