I have been doing a lot of reading lately to figure out if teaching is really the right career path for me, including a lot in the New York Times. The article with the link at the bottom of this post is what scares me about becoming a teacher. Everything that Delpit has been speaking about in her book is really starting to open up my eyes are reach out to other resources. In the two chapters that were assigned for the week, "Cross-cultural Confessions in Teacher Assessment" and "The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse"it discusses the real life issues that Delpit ran into and a possibility of what a teacher candidate is possible of running into in their future.
The standardized tests and what they do to the students and teachers isn't fair but its the way the government tests its students. Every school, every teacher, and every student have a different teaching and learning capability then the school a town over, the teacher in the class room across the hall, or the student in the desk behind you. Everyone is different and the teachers are supposed to be teaching the students the same things so they can all pass these standardized tests. Not all students are on the same level as others and that hard for the government to help and fund. they want us all to be the perfect school with the perfect teachers and students, but in reality there is no such thing as perfect. The school in the article attached below is far from perfect they are barely keeping they school open yet they are still doing the best for their students because that's all they can do.
http://nyti.ms/1sPbohJ
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