Thoughts about the Middletown Schools

Some recent comments being posted on various websites:

EVERYONE on this school boad must go!!!!
Voter
9:19 PM, 10/10/2009

Staff should stop whinning about uncontrollble students in their classes. Perhaps if teachers made their classes more interesting for all students they wouldn't have discipline problems. If kids want to be in the class they would act appropriately.
new teacher
10:43 PM, 10/10/2009

Student academic achievement has always been a goal. However, teachers do not want to change the way they teach to accomplish the goal. They say: "I have always done it that way. If they don't get it, it's their fault." Blame the students for not learningl. Teachers need to accept that they need to change the way they teach to reach their different types of students. It's about LEARNING!
staff member
10:54 PM, 10/10/2009

It's from both sides. Kids these days know that there aren't jobs for them when they finish school, and many know that they won't be able to get grants to go to school. FAFSA covers 1/3 of what it takes to go to school. So, kids in high school don't care about working because they don't have jobs, because all the old people can't retire because we don't pay people enough to live on in this country, so we have 80+ year olds working jobs 16 year olds once had! i would like fries with that, please.
mdizzie
11:44 PM, 10/10/2009

Personally, I like this post:
Middletown schools definitely need improvement, there is no denying that and their educational system could use a slight re-vamping. What everyone fails to point out is that parents should be the number one teacher to their children. I understand that it is hard and there aren't always enough hours in the day, but I'm just sick and tired of hearing parents complain and then send the kid off to school to be dealt with. Being a parent is a privilege and the most important job of all.
Proud Parent of a Smart Kid
2:00 AM, 10/11/2009

Oh boy Tudor. don't say anything bad about the teachers in this school system. Got into a bit of a tussle with some educators on the old Journal Message Board. Had their shorts tied all in a knot on some of my comments about school performance, tenure and quitting on the job, etc. Those folks get very defensive when you voice your observations about their little world of education. We taxpaying, private corporation working, "non school world" people don't know what we're talking about according to some of the educators, yet, we're good enough to fund their little poor performing "Chinese fire drill" of an educational system when it comes levy time.