Teachers, Where Are You?

Quinton Beverly, International Studies Academy, Wat it do, ISA? (Spring 2007):

The following is a list of teachers who used to teach here this school year:

Mr. Dinh: Science and Math
Mr. Botex: Computers
Ms. Dinelly: Spanish
Ms. Moscoso: Spanish
Ms. O’Neill: Math and Computers
Mr. Megiddo: Math and Computers

They all taught at this school. Some made a promise to teach us and they failed the promise that they made. Some promised to teach here for a short period of time and some promised to stay for a long time. Now they -- all of them -- quit on us.

As I was thinking to myself, I thought about why they quit on us.

I interviewed our principal, Ms. Evangelho, and she said, “Some teachers were mad at the students for the lack of respect.” She also said, “The students had bad behavior and were swearing.”

I do agree with Ms. Evengelho because some kids, including myself, are disrespectful to some teachers.

I say that being disrespectful is wrong because teachers were not put here to baby-sit us. They are here to teach us.

Babysitting a teenager is putting up with all of their behavior and disobedience. Teaching a teenager is when you tell them what they need to know about school.

I wrote this article because I want the people at ISA to know the reason why the teachers quit and who quit.

I also want you to know that the teachers who are here teaching us today, we need to respect them as if we knew them for forever.