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12-21-2012, 04:03 PM | #2 |
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I have long thought that teaching is one of the most undervalued professions. It has to be a calling, for as little as most of them make, and it literally shapes the future for everyone. Why it isn't more highly regarded (or paid) I will never know.
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12-21-2012, 04:08 PM | #3 |
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I'm married to a teacher. One year she logged all the hours she put in for the year. That year she made less than the minimum wage. She cared about the kids, not the money.
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12-21-2012, 04:15 PM | #4 |
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12-21-2012, 04:16 PM | #5 |
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My wife is a teacher too. She teaches middle school art. I've seen her buy hundreds of dollars worth of art supplies like paint, paper, clay, etc out of her own pocket, because the school district doesn't give her enough of a budget to give the kids what they need to do their projects the right way. She never complains, she just loves the kids and wants them to succeed. I don't know where she gets the patience. Teachers certainly deserve summer vacations, that's for sure!
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12-21-2012, 04:32 PM | #6 |
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F em. They only work 180 days out of the year.
Add in snow days and other school holidays and they have it made in the shade...
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12-21-2012, 04:37 PM | #7 |
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Don't give a **** about teachers. They're nice people, but they're no different than steel workers or doctors or coroners or Walmart clerks or rocket scientists or garbagemen.
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12-21-2012, 04:41 PM | #8 |
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I love teachers! You do it wrong and they make you do it over and over and over again!
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12-21-2012, 04:47 PM | #9 |
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Oh christ... I'll be warming up the ban hammer here pretty quick Im sure.
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12-21-2012, 04:49 PM | #10 |
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12-21-2012, 04:52 PM | #11 |
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They are a remarkable lot. The reward has got to be in the kids, because they put up with an awful lot of crap.
Seems like every taxpaying citizen feels they have a right to tell teachers how to do their jobs, and then bitch about how much they get paid. Now some are calling for teachers to carry guns - geesh, I 'spose they'll want them to furnish their own pistol, and arrange for their own training.
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12-21-2012, 04:53 PM | #12 |
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I had a Badass science teacher.
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She works late nearly every day and only takes off 3 weeks during the summer. The rest of the time she is either looking for classes to take to help her be a better teacher or working in her classroom planning with her grade level workmates for the next school year. She is the single most dedicated worker, in any field, I have ever know. |
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That 180 days bullshit is the biggest lie you will ever be told. My wife works longer hours and more weekends, willingly and for no additional pay, than anyone I know. She takes 3 weeks off per year and the rest of the time she is working on personal development so that she be a better and more effective educator. Any teacher out there that does nothing but the bare minimum... is guaranteed a super shitty teacher. |
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12-21-2012, 05:09 PM | #15 |
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