Interesting information for your perusal...

[FATHERFORD]

My wife dreams of only working 52 hour weeks...

Lets also not forget she(which is usually me) has to supply materials for the classroom. Paper, ink for the printer, markers for the whiteboard, etc.

With the amount of time she puts in, and the money we have to spend just so she can teach it averages to about $16 an hour.

I have personally tried to get her to quit teaching, but she loves it and loves helping the "children." She is the science UIL coach, team leader of the biology department, and routinely goes to the sporting events as some of her best students wants her support.

I will argue until I'm blue in the face that she is underpaid with anyone. With that said she chose this profession and we really can't talk...


With that said there are some mouth breathers she works with that aren't even worth the pot they shit in.

[mikec]

ftt!

I'm a believer!

...If 50% of your students can't read or do simple math? You should be run out of town on rails and forbidden from ever getting near a school again....

No more tenure, if your students fail, you do too. I'm not saying the first year your students flunk you're gone but if it happens two or three years? It's not them, it's you.

The difficulty here is that you are forming your opinion, as do so many others, on what is reported. Even though you know that 'reporting', as we know it, is never actual and factual. In that I've been married to a teacher for the entire 12 years she has been teaching I'm a bit more in tune with what actually goes on, and it's bullshit. In reality, it is very difficult for teachers to influence what is and is not absorbed in the classroom, due to a multitude of variables I choose to not write a thesis on.

Bottom line is that when you wish to enact change in our educational system, much as when you wish to enact change in our political system, look not at those charged with carrying out the tasks at hand, but to the leadership that issues the ROE.

My wife dreams of only working 52 hour weeks...

Lets also not forget she(which is usually me) has to supply materials for the classroom. Paper, ink for the printer, markers for the whiteboard, etc.

With the amount of time she puts in, and the money we have to spend just so she can teach it averages to about $16 an hour.

I have personally tried to get her to quit teaching, but she loves it and loves helping the "children." She is the science UIL coach, team leader of the biology department, and routinely goes to the sporting events as some of her best students wants her support.

I will argue until I'm blue in the face that she is underpaid with anyone. With that said she chose this profession and we really can't talk...


With that said there are some mouth breathers she works with that aren't even worth the pot they shit in.

VERY salient post, and I agree wholeheartedly. The difficulty is that you have, as in most topics, people who have never done it, yet know absolutely every nuance involved, with firmly established viewpoints that will not truly examine what is and is not...

So, in essence, what we've got here, is a failure to communicate...

[JJs89lx]

Not to jump on just any bandwagon here, but I will say thanks for teaching.

[bcoop]

Oh, I will also say, "No Child Left Behind" and standardized testing has really crippled the teachers that are there for the right reasons. It's a complete and total failure, and should go by the wayside. That's not the fault of the teachers. Blame your politicians.

[Leah]

Oh, I will also say, "No Child Left Behind" and standardized testing has really crippled the teachers that are there for the right reasons. It's a complete and total failure, and should go by the wayside. That's not the fault of the teachers. Blame your politicians.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

[Leah]

Not to jump on just any bandwagon here, but I will say thanks for teaching.

Thank you. :-)

[CJ]

Oh, I will also say, "No Child Left Behind" and standardized testing has really crippled the teachers that are there for the right reasons. It's a complete and total failure, and should go by the wayside. That's not the fault of the teachers. Blame your politicians.

The department of education needs to be dissolved and the state/local municipalities need to have the freedom to organize their education to the demographics of the student body.

[sc281]

TX educators are striking?

The Teachers union as whole sir. Look up any of their strikes and that is how they position their interests, for the betterment of the children.

[sc281]

My wife has taught for 12 years and I've never heard about even one strike. Not one.

Here is just one then. And this one isn't even on one of those right wingnut websites like Drudge or Fox News (sarcasm). I got this one of the World Socialist Website

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/danv-s14.shtml

[stevo]

Here is just one then. And this one isn't even on one of those right wingnut websites like Drudge or Fox News (sarcasm). I got this one of the World Socialist Website

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/se...danv-s14.shtml

I linked a different one in post #56. It happens in northern states most often.

Stevo

[mikec]

Here is just one then. And this one isn't even on one of those right wing nut websites like Drudge or Fox News (sarcasm). I got this one of the World Socialist Website.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/se...danv-s14.shtml

Guess I should have stated that I had my "in Texas" blinders on for you and Stevo. Not sure that I'd ever even heard of teachers unions prior to this thread, to tell you the truth...

[slow99]

Fuck it, my plan is to become a professor once I hit 45 and take it easy.

[sc281]

Fuck it, my plan is to become a professor once I hit 45 and take it easy.

Well you'll have to keep with the tradition of teaching in a field that you have no real world experience in, so Finance is out of the question.

How's humanities ring ya? lol

[bcoop]

Fuck it, my plan is to become a professor once I hit 45 and take it easy.

You know anything about this guy? He was my brother's absolute favorite, and they still keep in touch. I can't recall how he made his money, but it's my understanding that is exactly what he did. My bro gets his interns from people in his classes, as well as some from SMU.

http://web3.unt.edu/news/story.cfm?story=9829

[CJ]

I had a history professor several years ago which was absolutely liberal as shit - it was so ridiculously it was pouring over into his lectures and the curriculum. He taught basic US foreign history through the lens of us being an empire of conquerors destroying cultures and reaping chaos. I called him out on it regularly, and busted his ass on several historical inaccuracies, but the truth was he was a previous city manager of Nacogdoches and he had a ton of interesting knowledge and he was a great professor, even with the absurd bias he presented. I wrote my thesis on the JFK assassination from the point of view of Oswald being the single shooter, and he agreed completely - wasn't expecting that.