Guess I am becoming a crotchy old man and I am only 40. 

I see post not asking for additional material but asking to give material.  I wonder did they even try to do a first step and Google, look on this site, look at other search engines before posting?

I see ws and PowerPoint�s with basic words misspelled.  Got told I am not supposed to tell people to check their spelling.

I see lessons posted with only pictures.  Where is the ESL material?  Where are the instructions for what it is supposed to be used for?

Was told I was wrong because I said we should refrain from adding our Religion, politics and social views in our lessons because it will change the student�s beliefs to ours.  That the student should grow into their own beliefs.  Then wonder why when there is a revolution one of the first groups sent to re-education camps are teachers.  (There were a couple lessons where in the lesson the teacher posted �may [Allah/God] be praised� or a political ad for a certain politician or political group and worst about how horrible another country was for their beliefs.  I feel none of this is appropriate in the classroom.)

So if it is wrong for me to try to hold fellow teachers and myself to a higher plane, then I am wrong.

Dear Roney.... I was tempted not to respond, because I am totally in the same club you are (maybe grouchy old lady!) And also, because, I have the same feeling of impotence you feel towards some of the issues you mentioned. I have seen, during the almost 2 years I �ve been a member of this wonderful site, that sometimes some members can express, criticize, sometimes even insult, be rude, and....... it �s OK. (don �t know if it has to do with the seniority or the great worksheets they produce, and sometimes another less notable member attempts to do the same (express, comment, etc, etc, etc) and immediately is silenced by a bombardment of sharp remarks. Anyway... I will take my chances! and run for cover!

Hi Roney, I totally agree with the points you made. As all worksheets are in office is it too difficult to use the spellchecker?  Also In my opinion all worksheets should be totally edible then teachers can slightly change them to suit their lesson.

 I also think all religion should be kept away from this site, including members wishing each other a happy religious day on the main page. I would rather be able to read other members questions and advice rather than see the main page covered in messages wishing other members happy this and that.

Tony.

PS. I think teacher spent more of there time making sure there grammer and spilling is write and not waist ours time.  

It �s funny, I was about to post something similar today when a saw your post. I agree totally with you. I �d like to add something about teaching material. Every day we have lots of irregular verbs lists. I know they are allowed, I just don �t see why. In my opinion, they are always taken from a website or scanned, it �s just impossible to prove it as all sites which teach grammar have one. Even if they were not, I can �t see any original work. We have tons of lists, all the same because irregular verbs don �t change trough time. What do you think?

I �m a grumpy silly 30 year old teacher...

I say "grumpy" because I hate it when I answer a post (to help or simply to give advice...) and I get no "thank you" in return - and yet i �m "silly" because I usually come back the next day to check the person �s post and see if my answer helped - even though I �m only disappointed to see that s/he asked for help and didn �t even bother to thank the people who helped him/her...

i �m grumpry because  i �m upset when I see a ws with so many mistakes that it is totally useless for me or my pupils - and yet i �m silly because I hope that the member who created such a ws will realize his/her mistake and do better next time... shouldn �t we be able to report ws full of mistakes??? maybe freeze them for a day until the author has had time to correct most of his/her mistakes...

yesterday I found a nice ws in the new contributions - it had not been downloaded so far and the member didn �t have many points so I decided to have a look at his contributions to see if there was anything else I liked... and how disappointed - and grumpy - I became when I realized most of his ws were actually the  same ws uploaded several times... and yet silly me I left him a message saying how disappointed I was in the hope that he will understand why I reported his ws...

so i �m a grumpy dreamer.... will I ever change???

By the way, I never talk about politics or religion with my pupils: i �m not allowed to speak about religion because France is a secular state and so are our public schools! as for politics, whenever my pupils ask me if I prefer Obama or Bush I always tell them: if I give you my opinion I might influence yours, and my goal is to help you form an opinion and not to have my opinion...

take care!

Elodie