[servo1969]

[Sacajaweau]

BS....The teachers are chiefly power mongers.

Our system would be a lot better if there were more male teachers.

[muir_redwoods]

If coal mining followed the downtrend in education over the last hundred years, we’d have to be burying firewood in the back yard and waiting if we wanted coal.

[who knows what evil?]

I have far more respect for coal miners than teachers.

[Vigilanteman]

When I was a pup, almost every one of my teachers had summer jobs. One made cabinets, a half dozen or so farmed, some worked as office temps or ran summer type businesses, including one who repaired musical instruments out of his basement and became so successful at it that he took early retirement from teaching. A few taught remedial summer school for the kids who'd slacked off or extra credit classes for the kids who wanted to get ahead. Another hawked products at the county fair. They got paid nine months for nine months work and all needed the income from the side jobs for the other three months.

I never recall any of them whining about it and most of them had a wide variety of outside experience to add to their school resume.

One of them even got together with other members of his family and started a vitamin company which became highly successful, and from which I still buy today. All of this in one of the most obscure school districts in the nation!

[logic101.net]

No, they portray themselves as one step removed from coal miners, they THINK of themselves as one step removed from God.

Teachers stink.

[pallis]

I don’t envy teachers, not even for their short work years. As American families breakdown, and our culture declines, more and more gets thrown onto the backs of teachers. Send them undisciplined children who haven’t learned anything at home, including good manners and respect, and expect teachers to work magic. Parents have completely dumped their responsibility for their children’s education onto government schools.

There are bad teachers, and plenty of teachers who have been taught the wrong way to teach our children subjects like math and English. There are teachers who have never received anything but revisionist history and Marxist indoctrination. The left controls our educational system from one end to the other, and we have the brainwashed doing the brainwashing, because to them, it is what children should learn. But when it comes to wanting to teach our children the fundamentals, most teachers work hard to do it, and plenty try to do more.

We don’t hear much about good teachers, we hear about the bad ones, and it is a one rotten apple situation when it comes to public opinion.

My advice to parents is to take responsibility for your child’s education. Home school if possible, but if not, don’t expect to get excellent results by dumping your responsibilities at the doorsteps of public schools. Be a teacher.

[who knows what evil?]

Interesting to note that the reputations of both teachers and police officers have tanked over the past twenty years.

[al_c]

What a bunch of BS.

My wife is a teacher. I wouldn't want her job. She makes okay money, but puts up with crap from every different direction ... government, school administration, students, parents that don't give a crap and their kids that have the same attitude.

This pic shows one of the main issues I'd have with her job ...

[PapaBear3625]

The real purpose of teachers these days, is to try to ensure that no conservative grows up to be successful.

[Hot Tabasco]

Me to several retired teacher friends: "What profession would you consider yourself closely related to?"

Teacher friends: "Coal miners, of course!!!!".../sarc

[Cyber Liberty]

I liked the Venn diagram.

It’s a good time to remind students in any English class: Pay attention to what the teacher says about the meanings of passages, because that’s what the test will be about. Oh sure, they tell you at the beginning of the Semester your opinion matters “if you can back it up,” but if your opinion doesn’t match his/hers, then you will never be able to back it up to their satisfaction. You will be failed if you try.

[familyop]

Three-quarters of Americans think teachers paid less than they really are
Washington Examiner ^ | 9-16-13 | ASHE SCHOW

"Seventy-four percent of Americans think teachers make less than they really do, according to a new poll from Rasmussen. The average teacher salary in America is $55,000 (upward of $75,000 in Chicago), but three quarters of Americans think teachers earn less than that. Over half of Americans (52 percent) believe teachers are paid too little."


Teachers, civil servants kick off week of strikes in Greece
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3067499/posts

[familyop]

Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs
yahoo ^
Posted on Tue Aug 10 17:38:51 2010
"The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by closing a tax loophole used by multinational corporations and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor...The legislation provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or to ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins."

Mutually Assured Destruction [Tues. debacle confirms growing rift between Dems & teachers unions.]
American Spectator ^ | 11/5/10 | RiShawn Biddle
"Congressional Democrats angered centrist school reformers, MoveOn.org-style progressives, and other party activists in August when they voted to ladle $10 billion in federal subsidies (funded from future cuts to the Food Stamp program) to school districts in order to stave off layoffs of 160,000 teachers (or just 2.6 percent of the nation's 6.2 million school employees). In turn, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers poured more than $40 million of their hefty campaign war chests (including more than $15 million by the NEA in the last weeks of the election season alone) to help the Democrats keep full control of Congress."

[familyop]

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

About "70 million" people are receiving good incomes but are also steeped in debt and can't borrow more for big ticket items. Meanwhile,...

More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3005481/posts

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”

[familyop]

Stop electing politicians who have teachers in their immediate families.

[familyop]

Narrow that to publicly employed teachers.

[dalereed]

That’s an insult to coal mine workers, teachers are way down the list, like rock bottom!

Those that can do, those that can’t teach!