Response 4: Do Teachers Really Care About Education?

The article I read and am currently responding to is called Caring and Education. In it the author writes about whether or not teachers really care about their students and education. Throughout my life I have had all kinds of teachers. Some I really liked, and some I really didn't. I had teachers's that were extremely strict but caring and then I had some teacher's that were very leniant and didn't seem to care about much at all.

All the way from elementary school up to my senior year of high school I constantly heard from all my classmates complaints about our teachers. I heard everything from how mean they were, how they were too strict, gave too much homework, and how they didn't care at all. Many students thought they were there just because they had to be and all they cared about was making their money and not teaching the students anything. Then there were those few teachers that you never heard a single bad word about and all the students seemed to love. The one who you could joke around with, was pretty leniant, and was almost like an older friend to the students.

But do teachers really care? The truth is that not all truly do. Some would argue that the strict ones don't care, they just hate their job and take it out by providing tons of work and long boring lectures and harsh rules. On the other hand though, some would say the stricter the teacher is means they care more because they are actually trying to teach and discipline you. These people would also probably agree that teachers who don't have as many rules and allow students to get away with more don't really care about the students well being and actually teaching them. They would rather just relax and let the kids do whatever. Usually though, these teachers are considered to be the favorites by students.

I believe that a lot of kids simply don't care about school or getting their education at all. This can lead to teachers not caring, because the students won't listen, pay attention, and either disrupt class, act out, or just don't do any work. I couldn't tell you how many kids I would see everyday doing one or more of these things and the teacher just got fed up with it and eventually seemed to quit trying to help them. Or "Sometimes the conditions of schooling are so bad that teachers who want to care and students who want to be cared for cannot form the kind of relations we would properly label caring." states http://www.infed.org/.

The site also goes on to suggest ways in which to help the teachers care more about the students. Some suggestions include more time together, smaller class sizes, and teaching more of what children are interested in then what the normal cirriculum. So do teachers really care? There will always be those teachers who just teach because they can and not necessarily for the benefit of the students. But for the most part I think teachers today really do care about their students.



http://www.infed.org/biblio/noddings_caring_in_education.htm

Response 3: My Opinion on Someplace Like America

Someplace Like America is a book about a man's journey and experiences over the past 30 years in this country. He met all different kinds of people, from numerous states, all with very different lives and who faced hard times. In the book, he talks about how everyone in America calls what are country is currently going through a "recession" but to many people, it is a "depression" similar to the one in the 1930's. Some of the people he met who might consider this era a depression include the homeless, single parents, or someone who was laid off  from their job.

Reading the introduction to Someplace Like America made me realize all of the many different struggles that Americans have went through and are still continuing to go through today. It made me realize that so many people are struggling just to get by everyday, and it has made me think about all the things I do have, even things that seem simple to me a lot of people in this country don't even have, and it makes me appreciate everything so much more.

Topic: Is The Weather Becoming More Extreme?

In the past several years there have been many cases of extreme weather all over the world. This includes everything from floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, snow storms, and droughts. There has always been bad weather ever since the beginning of time, but is it getting worse?

What is known to be the 2008 Super Tuesday Tornado outbreak happened in February 2008. More than 80 tornadoes were confirmed that day, killing almost 60 people. The tornadoes that day were very devastating and they swept through the southern states and went all the way up to the Ohio Valley. This past year in April 2011, hundreds of people were killed due to a huge tornado outbreak in the southern United States. Over 10 states were deeply impacted by this, homes and buildings were destroyed and the damage the tornadoes produced has been very costly. Before then the United States hadn't suffered from tornado outbreak that bad since the year 1925.

Every year winter weather seems to be gradually getting worse over time as well. In the winter of 2010, almost every state was experiencing extremely low temperatures. Freezing rain and snowstorms occurred in low regions including Florida. The temperatures there were the lowest they had been in over twenty years and lasted unusually long, some even lasted up to two weeks.

The past year alone has had horrible outcomes due to flooding. In May a large amount of rain parts of Thailand and left over a hundred dead or missing to this day. A monsoon hit India and ended up killing 574 people in total. Heavy flooding has hit other countries as well this year, some of these including North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Afghanistan; each of these leaving hundreds dead or still missing. In the United States the mid-Atlantic region suffered severe flooding in many areas. It was the worst amount of flooding the U.S had encountered since Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricanes occur every year. Some are worse than others. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina started in the Bahamas and hit the southern coast of the United States, traveling from Florida all the way to Texas. The storm's damage was horrible and it killed thousands. The worst damage was definitely done to New Orleans, Louisiana though. It had the highest death toll overall and the almost everything was completely destroyed. The city still isn't completely rebuilt even though it has been over six years since the deadly storm.

In conclusion, I do agree that storms over the past several years have seemed to worsen. As to whether or not the storms and their severity are going to keep increasing, I still am not completely sure. All anyone can do is hope and be aware and prepared in case one or more of these terrible storms is to come again.

Wikipedia.com/wiki/list_of_extreme_weather_events

Wikipedia.com/wiki/hurricane_katrina

More About Me!

My name is Kara Hutchinson. I was born in Lexington, KY and I have lived here my whole life. I like to write sometimes, it just depends on what I'm writing about. I took English 101 last semester with Dr. Wright. It was an okay class but all we ever did was write papers which was kind of boring to me. The reason I am in college is because I want to better myself. I'm still undecided on what I want to major in, so hopefully during my next two years at BCTC I will figure it out.

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