| It is predicted that most college graduates today will | | | | In-School-Suspension (ISS) Students at a High School. |
| work for five different companies and have gone | | | | The ISS High School is in a Village where the violent |
| through ten different jobs before they retire. I am at | | | | crime rate is 11.1 per 1000 and only 16% of the 25 |
| the latter end of that journey. After being, "the | | | | year old & older population has more than a H.S. |
| butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker", I | | | | diploma or GED. Exceptional Student Education in an |
| have taken the road to being a Teacher. | | | | upper middle class town is not same type of |
| I am old enough to remember the sixties and have | | | | students you find in a poor town. I spent a day with |
| real world experience. My entire family was pushing | | | | a gifted class of first graders in village (A) and those |
| me to start the ball rolling on teaching.. My sister is a | | | | first graders could communicate better than the |
| Teacher in Connecticut. My Mother-in-law is a retired | | | | regular freshmen students in village (D). There are so |
| Teacher. I always thought teaching would be a great | | | | many learning resources available for Parents, |
| LAST job in a lifetime. | | | | Students, and Teachers that there should be, "No |
| So here I am, a Substitute Teacher now for a year | | | | child left behind ".* The Act is promoted as requiring |
| and a half. My perspective on the teaching | | | | 100% of students (including disadvantaged and ESE |
| environment is different than that of someone who | | | | students) within a school to reach the same state |
| has a Masters in Education and has known only that | | | | standards in reading and mathematics by 2014. The |
| field all their life. I do not think my way is better than | | | | goal is unattainable. Some students are simply unable |
| anyone else. I am trying to add my two cents to the | | | | to perform at the level for their age, no matter how |
| equation and change want I need to change in | | | | good the teacher is. My effort will be 100%. My plan |
| myself first. My goal is to become a great teacher. | | | | is to find the path for successes for every child and |
| The Substitute Teaching I have done includes | | | | hope they follow it. |
| kindergarten through high school. | | | | *The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Publication L. |
| I spent four months as the teacher for | | | | 107-110, 115 Stat. |