Well Frank,

we don't have unions down here. All that I have heard about them are not really for the best so to speak. Don;t get me wrong, the 80K a year those teachers make up there on average wouldn't be bad at all, but like I said, I'm not in it for the money, just the kids. We don't have to have a masters here, but I have been thinking about getting mine. My old man tells me almost every time I talk to him about work "You mine as well be getting the maximum amount of money for that hour of work." It's starting to sink in I guess, LOL. One teacher's salary, and my wife staying home with our little one with no job kinda hurts sometimes, but life is good, and God blesses!

E

McBryde wrote:

My wife's take home pay went down for a period of 3 consecutive years recently due to her share of health insurance coverage rising faster than her 3% raise spread over 3 years.

frankj1 wrote:

It's a shame but I'm not surprised. The idiocy of "No Child Left Behind" is coming home to roost. Federal school funding is based on the test scores of ALL children. They have mentally handicapped children taking tests at the same grade level as their able minded peers. Teachers need to be able to TEACH. Not just study for a test. Kids are not being taught to think.......just pass tests in any way they can. If it involves cheating...so be it. This isn't a "Bush" problem....it's an American problem. The Obama administration has continued this nonsense. They need to get the "Experts" out of the schools and let the REAL experts do their job. Also...get rid of the teacher's unions. The cream will rise to the top and those teachers can and should be paid handsomely. The rest can go home.

JadeRose 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!

E

McBryde wrote:

Teachers should work 12 months a year.

Like the rest of us,,,

wheelrite wrote:

Like other countries ^?

ZRX1200 wrote:

Like other countries ^?

ZRX1200 wrote:

Yes too many public schools.

ZRX1200 wrote:

A lot of people in the private sector have the exact same story....well....without the raise part.

HockeyDad wrote:

Teachers should work 12 months a year.

Like the rest of us,,,

wheelrite wrote:

You get what you pay for.

donutboy2000 wrote:

Other countries have longer school years, so kind of, but no, like us. We should be pissed off we're so far behind.

FuzzNJ wrote:

We are pissed off we are so far behind. The problem is that most other countries have cut offs and weed outs. Our country is one that thinks that everyone can learn at the same level, no questions asked. The mentally handicapped kid can learn just as well and to the same standard as the honor student can, it is just the teachers fault if they can't! That is "No child left behind"!

Other countries, like China, have cuts in their education system. About 6th grade, they have a weed out of the kids not making it, they go to the factories and work for the rest of their lives making toys and painting your kids toys with lead based paint. Another cut at 9th grade, those go to train to do medial technical jobs like motor pool and taxi driving and other stuff like that that endanger your life a little more. Another cut at 12th grade for the ones to run the factories and manage the people working, and the rest, the cream of the crop, go to college to get good paying jobs.

Whenever you figure out how to solve that system here, you can run the country, until then, just sit back and watch our country go to crap and keep drinking the coolaid they are giving you!

E

McBryde wrote:

We are pissed off we are so far behind. The problem is that most other countries have cut offs and weed outs. Our country is one that thinks that everyone can learn at the same level, no questions asked. The mentally handicapped kid can learn just as well and to the same standard as the honor student can, it is just the teachers fault if they can't! That is "No child left behind"!

Other countries, like China, have cuts in their education system. About 6th grade, they have a weed out of the kids not making it, they go to the factories and work for the rest of their lives making toys and painting your kids toys with lead based paint. Another cut at 9th grade, those go to train to do medial technical jobs like motor pool and taxi driving and other stuff like that that endanger your life a little more. Another cut at 12th grade for the ones to run the factories and manage the people working, and the rest, the cream of the crop, go to college to get good paying jobs.

Whenever you figure out how to solve that system here, you can run the country, until then, just sit back and watch our country go to crap and keep drinking the coolaid they are giving you!

E

McBryde wrote: