I’m very sorry she didn’t feel that her seasonal job with every government holiday and summers off didn’t pay enough. I wish her all the best in the private sector.
Teaching has dramatically changed in the twelve years that I’ve sent my kids to school, even at the preschool level.
Twelve years ago, when my first child went to preschool, she sang songs, colored, painted, learned her numbers and letters. Now my other children are going to preschool and they are always being tested, they have specialists to help them learn to play! Every couple of months I have meet with the preschool teachers to review my child’s performance and the paperwork involved is like signing a mortgage.
Another wonderful thing that has changed, for my oldest child, is that she had to learn about Islam and her teacher asked the students to recite that Shahada, which if you were to repeat it means that you have become a Muslim!! You can’t say the Lord’s prayer in school but you can recite the Islamic declaration of faith. I won’t even tell you the about the new math she has to learn because it gets me so upset.
I think that that teachers who don’t complain about what is going on in the schools must either be new or die hard leftists.
Since you either didn’t read the article or somehow missed the point and thought it was about pay, let me repeat what she said for you:
“I can no longer be a part of a system that continues to do the exact opposite of what I am supposed to do as a teacher - I am supposed to help them think for themselves, help them find solutions to problems, help them become productive members of society. Instead, the emphasis is on Common Core Standards and high stakes testing that is creating a teach to the test mentality for our teachers, and stress and anxiety for our students.”
Hope this helps.