McBryde wrote:This quote is probably the one that pisses me off as a teacher the most. You have no inclination of what I or any teacher goes through every day in our job, so you post crap like this for what? To try to demean the educators of the world? Are you pissed that we get off 3 months during the summer? Or that we get paid so little? Or that we work roughly 60 hours with all of our planning and after school work a week and don't get paid for overtime? Big freaking deal! That is all part of our job. We are there not for the money, but for the kids! We enjo working with the students, watching them enjoy learning, making a safe environment for them away from their usually crappy home environments.
People that say this were probably hurt in the education system growing up, by being picked on or something, or they are pissed off at the educational system because they didn't have something go right with their kids. Remember, not all teachers are like that. Some of us work hard at our jobs, and hold our students accountable to a higher standard than others. Keep those teachers in mind the next time you say this crap!
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Standing ovation.
Thank you for trying to teach the children of folks that have not "stepped into the ring" in 30 to 40 years.
Unfunded mandates (No Child Left Behing eg), three-job-holding parents with little English at home, parents that expect teachers to set limits on their kids who have not learned respect by age 6 (nice job parents!), main-streamed students that our current readers never saw in their classrooms decades ago because the "short bus" delivered them to the rear of the building, way more kids per teacher than ever, untold hours of planning (my wife puts in 3 to 4 hours per night AFTER work, lots of hours on weekends, reports get written on vacations and she's in SPED!)...why bother trying to explain how hard it is to educate in the modern classroom when this is the attitude at home? Ya think your offspring don't hear the disrespect you are spouting?? My father would have smacked me if I acted like that in school.
Learning difficulties have been identified and teaching methods have been updated to such a degree that today's classroom teacher can not teach using one method and expect all the kids to get it. Years ago, those that fell behind were "stupid" Today they have a chance for greatness. We now know they were not stupid, they learn in a different way.
Those that can't teach nor be taught, criticize.