Babysitters (teachers) in this state will continue to be

shit all over by this administration until they simply refuse to show up for school, in mass. Many parents simply do not care about their children's academics and you are nothing more than babysitters to them. They don't care that Haslam has come after your pensions, collective bargaining ability, tenure, that he's "improving" education by taking away the rewards for advanced degrees, and they don't give a damn that he wants to link your licencing with your pupil's tests scores. Oh wait, actually that last proposal is from Kevin Huffman, the education bureaucrat guy who's job was created out of thin air by "conservative", "small government" Haslam

 

[video=youtube_share;1ytCEuuW2_A]http://youtu.be/1ytCEuuW2_A[/video]

 

It's just a job. If it really sucks that bad look for something else.

 

Won't be a popular stance, but I like you.

 

http://www.monster.com/

 

I think this would be more effective for non-teachers if you could tie this in to your job performance.

 

no offense intended to anybody, but good luck with that with the degrees prospective teachers are leaving UT with.

 

i've been told teachers could make 3 times their salary in the private sector. i'm confused by your statement.

 

Early childhood education degrees? Education degrees in general? Doing what? Maybe I'm wrong.

 

What's going to be really fun is when for-profit schools start really taking off and start paying the best teachers really well to come and teach for them.

 

sarcasm my friend. the vast majority of teachers I know are unemployable in any other profession for various reasons. most of them being personality or work ethic issues.

 

I should've caught that. I need to study sarcasm recognition under Dooz.

 

i know this is a little off topic, but i have several friends who are teachers, and the majority of them gripe/moan/[itch bay] about actually having to work. it's truly amazing considering they have more vacation time than anyone else(other than welfare recipients)

 

Same here. Same here. And they get downright nasty if you say anything about it

 

I love my job!

 

Again, this isn't LA. The only private schools in my area are Christian schools. They pay $25k-$30k.

 

I'll leave this to you guys. I should have learned by now to avoid this subject.

 

Man, did I miss the memo or something? My calendar didn't pop up with a "hate on teachers day" reminder this morning.

 

My mom's a teacher. Growing up she would always complain to my dad about something that happened every single day at school. Things eventually got better when there was a change in administration, but if I hated my job as much as she did during that time I'd have found another job or moved to a different system instead of complaining about it for 10 years.

My mom has been a 4th grade teacher for 20 years (has been teaching ~35 years in total). Its sad, but in a lot of ways she's stuck at the 4th grade level. She has trouble doing math or thinking above the 4th grade level because that's all she's done for the last 20 years. I don't think she could do much outside of teaching just because it would take her a long time to adjust to something more demanding.

 

I'm not hating on teachers, I just mentioned a trend that I notice with literally every friend that is a teacher with the exception of one.