No, it can’t.
Fagan, J. (1996). Principles for developing male involvement programs in early childhood settings: a personal experience. Young Children, 51 (4) 64–71.
And have FedEx deliver a couple or three strawberries to her every day for a week.
Well, nobody’s put it online, but the abstract doesn’t really say anything about what you’re alleging. I also note that rather than detailing the results of any kind of empirical inquiry, it appears instead to be an opinion piece written by an educator detailing some experiences he has had. Are there any other, more accessible works supporting your thesis?
Off the top of my head, no. I’ve only encountered this thesis a handful of times in over 30 years of reading literature on the subject. It’s always stuck in my mind though, because it appears to be very consistent with what can be empirically derived from observing and interacting with ECE and SPED teachers. I’ll check a couple of places and see if I can find anything.
Heh. I was going to make a related assertion, but thought better of it. But now that you’ve opened that can-o-worms, I’ll say that in my view, many teachers are women who would not be able to make much headway in other professions. As students (and I have had many) they are often from the lower reaches of their high school graduating classes, have little understanding of basic facts of history, math, geography, science, or arts, and go into teaching because 1) the schools of ed let them in, and they’d never get into more rigorous programs of study, 2) education seems to be (and usually is) an easy program, and 3) they think anyone can do it. They don’t get counseled out and they eventually get into a classroom and they repeat the tapes of the mediocre teachers they had and the cycle gets repeated.
And don’t get me started on the Special Ed industry (also an invention of the federales). Almost every Special Ed teacher I’ve come across has been a candidate for Special Ed - either cognitively or emotionally. By the way, what does your term, ECE, stand for?
But it’s not just about her or what she things was said about her. If a co-worker that I am close friends with has a private conversation with me about problems she’s having with her husband, or if I use the phone while no one else is in the room to call my doctor to discuss a medical situation, it’s not right that I have to worry that those very private conversations are being taped… What about when my principal comes in to discuss a situation with me, or a student does? It’s not about anything being said about her. There is not one thing I have or would say about her with her out of the room that I would not say with her in the room. But there are private things in my life or my co-workers lives that may come up. I like being friends with the people I work with, and if it’s our break time and we want to discuss something from our personal lives, there’s nothing wrong with that. We conduct ourselves in a professional manner, we do our jobs- which we take seriously and do the best we can at, and we shouldn’t have to worry that every word out of our mouths is being listened to by a person that we did not choose to include in that information. I am not friends with this person outside of work, I choose to have an amicable working relationship with her, but i do not choose to share private information about my personal life with her. And Again, I do not have personal discussions all day long- I do my job. But when you are in your work place 8-10 hours a day, it’s nice at lunch or break to be able to relax and talk with a friend. She has no right morally to invade my privacy!! I just wanted to find out of she legally had that right. If I listened in on your calls with your doctor, or you discussing your marriage problems with a close friend, or any conversation you wanted to share with on certain people and keep private from others, I would be wrong. That’s Not petty.
Fuck it—somebody has to say it.
Early Childhood Education, which is now defined as being inclusive of ages 0 – 8. All of the factors you mentioned are relevant too. I actually know people who possess bachelor’s degrees in elementary education who do not capitalize the personal pronoun ‘I,’ even in academic writing. If I might ask, what exactly do you do?
I think it was Superfreakonomics which suggested the decline in education was due to women’s lib. (Seriously) The very bright, I-wanna-work women who would have been teachers or nurses 50 years ago are now engineers and lawyers and doctors as good as any male. Meanwhile, men are not often attracted to younger grade school education generally, so we have what would have been the bottom of the class 50 years ago are the norm in grade school education today. (The politically motivated toss in equal opportunity as a contributing factor). Plus, new teachers today have been beneficiaries of this shift over the last 20 years too.
IMHO some teachers are incredibly petty and lack a sense of what’s acceptable. They become little dictators. I attribute this to dealing with childish minds all day long, and having the power to essentially dictate their students do whatever they say pretty much without restraint. (Until a parent complains…)
Have you personally spoke with her to inform her of the illegal nature of her actions, and given her the opportunity to stop on her own before getting lawyers and the principal involved? Yes what she did is wrong, but what is the school board going to do about the situation? What if they let her go? Personally, I would feel terrible about starting that chain of events without giving her every opportunity to stop on her own.
This is partly because the salaries are so meager and men are still generally expected to bring home a good deal of bacon, and also because society has apparently been brainwashed into thinking that any man who wants to teach any level below high school is some sort of pedophile. God help the male teacher who touches (for any reason) a child today.
It does become a power trip for teachers who crave power, but that’s a matter of instructional philosophy. There are some teachers who get their greatest satisfaction from providing their students authority and agency in academic matters, and who are excited to see their students excelling, moving out, up and beyond. They are not intimidated by others’ success - they try to create it. Those types of teachers exist, too, but are not pointed to as exemplars.
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I’m not sure I’d lawyer up, but I’d sure as hell stay away from the crazy insecure teacher.
I didn’t say anything about slander or “liable” (sic) in my post. I only referenced FCC law regarding the use of equipment regulated by the FCC (including telephone). While one can sue for anything, a judgment is rare if no actual damages are consequent.
8 U.S.C. § 2520 provides a private cause of action for recording oral communication only when the recorder is not someplace he is legally entitled to be (or the device is placed in such a location). Nothing in the OP suggests that’s the case. I don’t know what FCC regulation you’re referring to so I can’t comment on that.