I am completely disappointed and disillusioned with many of our teachers. I agree ,it goes to the problem with tenure. It protects hacks earning good salaries when we have enthusiastic, energetic and able bodied folks working in retail or Starbucks because they can’t find teaching jobs. I wish all those teachers with the signs and smirks would move on but they won’t because despite their protests they know they have a great deal in the Ridgewood School System.
Union hypocrites that are unable to find jobs in private industry.
Time to let it go…
I have been so lucky to find dedicated and interested and motivated teachers for my kids from k all the way through the high school. There have been one or 2 who are absolutely apathetic or just plain bad at their jobs. 99% have gone way above and beyond for my kids.
At every turn I am disappointed with the majority of the administration, the BOE and their never ending ability to pass the buck. Nothing changes. Nothing gets done. Spend more give less. Just playing in to the business side of education. No one I can locate in the BOE or main offices of the Ridgewood schools takes ANY responsibility for Ridgewood schools or seems to give a leap about children or education.
That stumps me and THAT never had changed. Ever.
Selfish hypocritical entitled socialists… (most) RW teachers in a nutshell.
2:24 – Glad you’ve encountered good teachers – you got lucky.
The overall good to bad teacher ratio most definitely DOES NOT match your experience of 99:1… The distribution is more like 25% good 25% average 50% bad.
I’ve worked diligently to thread the needle and navigate through the many bad teachers to make sure my children got placed in classes with top teachers.