Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Semester 2 - Post 9

I read a recent post titled "Ex-teacher Accused of Lying to Authority, Judge, Probation Officer" written by The Associated Press. In this post it talks about how a former Grand Junction elementary schoolteacher is on trial this week for allegedly lying to her attorney, a judge and her probation officer. The woman on trial is also accused of violating bail-bond conditions. Last June, the same woman was put on four years of probation and 21 months of work release for the possession of methamphetamine.

I found this post interesting be cause it goes to show that teachers are not perfect and they do make mistakes and get in trouble. It was awful to read that a woman who was supposed to be leading children and teaching them skills for life, is being put on trial for lying to her attorney and also has been in trouble for the possession of drugs. Some role model huh? I think someone who is going to do something like this should absolutely lose their job. What parent wants their child being taught by someone who would do this. Luckily she is no longer a teacher, but just try to imagine the kinds of things the parents of her former students are thinking.

This post in a way relates to me as a student myself. I have not had a former teacher do anything like this, but I still can try to imagine myself in that position and think of what I might think about it. If I found out that one of my old teachers did something like this, I would definatly question the "truth" behind what they taught me.

11 comments:

brandonh2011 said...

Sam you did a really good job
you keeped all your articles related around school and you had good personal connects on what you though
Good job!

Jackie N said...

Sam, you had a good presentation and did well telling about your articles. Next time, try making more eye contact but other then that good job.

angelicao said...

You did a good job but you need to look a little more at the class. You explained your PLNs really well and spoke loud and clear. Good Job.

adama said...

Sam- good articles and good connecting them to yourself.

annies said...

Sam! This was an amazing presentation. You were very well prepared! I think there should be physical newspaper. Good job Shannon! Well done Sam!

Averee said...

Sam, you did great. You made excellent personal connections and had good, strong opinions. Try to make a little more eye contact, but once you have that down, your good to go!

mmg said...

Sam, you did an awesome job on your presentation. You had great eye contact with the audiance and you spoke clearly. Once again you did an awesome job.

kellyS said...

You did good on going into great detail on all of your PLNs and did well on relating the posts to yourself. Great Job!

joeyw said...

Sam I thought you had really good eye contact and did a good job of relating the article to yourself.

NowlanS said...

Good presentation. You spoke loudly and clearly to make your presentation understandable. Next time try a little more eye contact but i thought it was just a splendid presentation.

alenav said...

Sam, you had a good presentation. You spoke clear and had good eye contact. Good job relating your PLN's.