1st Teacher Inservice

I attended my first teacher in-service yesterday.  It was...interesting.  I've decided that teachers are the worst students.  At WSU and at the in-service, teachers cannot sit still and often complain when they are forced to sit and listen to someone else teach!  My professor at WSU says the same thing, lol.  The teacher in-service had every teacher from the district in the middle school cafetorium.  Someone from the district came with a crappy PowerPoint and showed/explained to us the schools' report cards and test scores...for 4 hours!  It was rough, but the
teachers I sat with were hilarious!  Especially the ones from the high school.  They were moaning and complaining the entire time.  Their argument is that because they are the ones in the classroom, they know the most about what's going on and what's best for the students.  They do not need someone coming in from the district telling them how they are doing.  I see both sides.  The teachers do know best when it comes to students, but I think that teachers need to be able to understand and use the data provided by the district as well.  Overall, it was a long, boring day, but it will give me some professional development credits.