Challenged

Please read the following and tell me, if you're a teacher, to shut up and deal. I am dealing, but I also spend half of my time cringing and the other half of my time laughing at the current situation.

There's little laughing, however, unless it's a sardonic sort of laugh. In the next few days or weeks, I will be writing about individual inadequacies in the school and how these disrupt the mission of our school: to provide a safe, student-centered learning environment.

Currently, our school lacks:

a librarian
a full time tech specialist
a part-time tech specialist
computers that we can save our work onto
computer labs
an alternative school program
in-house suspension
after school detention
enough subs
buses that show up on time
a regulated bus plan
a full office staff
a truancy officer
adequate security
camera surveillance
internet access for students
e-mail


Up until yesterday (the start of the 4th week) I could not:

print
take attendance on the computer
put my grades into the computer

Teachers are responsible for:
duty (morning, lunch, and afternoon at least once a week)
enforcing the dress code
enforcing the no cell phone policy
enforcing the no I-pod or electronics policy
enforcing the no gum policy
enforcing the no candy or snacks policy
enforcing the no liquids policy
generating no-credit lists
curriculum maps
team teaching
correct attendance
meeting standards
meeting AYP (annual yearly progress)
meeting AIMS (Arizona Instrument for Measuring Standards)