Comments on: Ms. B Does Her F*(k!n Job!

By: Henry Funes

Henry Funes — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:18:58 +0000

I really do hope she survives these thugs now in power.
Great teachers are being targeted, the threat of a good example.
Bad teachers that suck up to adminstration are either being allowed to fly below rader
or promoted.

As I said to that skunk John Stossel–Bad teachers exist because Bad adminstrators let them exist and good teachers exist despite bad adminstrators.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:26:16 +0000

@ luzmaria: heartwarming story, and when I release this story, i’ll be sure to let her know you said this.

@ pissedoffteacher: that’s cause she is …

By: pissedoffteacher

pissedoffteacher — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:15:07 +0000

This is my kind of font! Thanks!

By: angelamichelle

angelamichelle — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:40:57 +0000

*applause* for both your acknowledgment of a great educator and for the great educator herself.

By: pissedoffteacher

pissedoffteacher — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:34:22 +0000

She sounds great!

By: LuzMaria

LuzMaria — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:53:56 +0000

Mrs. B. was one of my mentors when I began teaching eight years ago. She helped me plan lessons and told me to follow my gut instinct. As I became the ESL/Bilingual lead teacher for our school, she began to ask me questions about how to implement the new curriculum for our kids. I was honored and humbled that this woman whom I admired and respected would care to hear my suggestion, those of a novice next to her. Mrs. B. and I had many great moments teaching. On Saturday mornings from 8-12pm, we got to do fun activities with our kids who were new to the country. We followed our own curriculum for ELLs.

The last three years at said school, I began to see Mrs. B. frazzled by administrators who were threatening to write her up because she did not have the “right” process charts displayed in her classroom and/or she was not allowing her students who happened to be beginner ELLs read independently. The irony is that the libraries which we had received were not adequately supplied with any books for her kids. She found books for her kids. When Mrs. B. is walking down the hallway with her calss, it immediately created this image of a mother hen with all her chicks following behind. Even back then there was noise that Mrs. B., a Teacher’s College graduate, should look into retirement. She is tiny but feisty. Mrs. B. did not back down at all. She and I would do our process charts together, organize the libraries, co-write lessons, and fix our bulletin boards in a similiar manner. We became one team. There was no way that this lil’ lady was going to leave us. We, the kids and the teachers, needed her spirit, compassion, sassiness, heart, and endurance to accomplish our tasks. She continues to be that inspiration and role model for me even though we are apart. I can only hope to be half the teacher she is one day.

Love you Mrs. B. Thank you for fighting for our kids.