Posted on 08/18/2014 3:42:31 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Education officials like to say that kids can't learn if they aren't in school.
But what if teachers aren't in school?
While absenteeism is usually considered a student matter, in San Francisco - and many other districts - the average teacher misses more school than the average child.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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Well, you gotta understand, those teaches were either stoned, sick due to their sexual activities (love party flu), or they forgot the safeword and were still tied up in personal engagements thenext morning...
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Fire teachers who don’t want to teach.
If they aren’t serious enough about the job to actually be there, then they don’t need that job.
Of note, Fridays and the day before Thanksgiving are apparently favorites for having sudden illness or taking a personal day.
But seems like the teachers are taking the heat for the four or so days that the district either requires or encourages teachers to be absent from class as part of training.
San Francisco teachers have just voted with their union for a strike authorization if their demands of a 21% raise over the next three years are not met.
When I find them, I’m going to send them to reform school!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltH_Nb_wYYI
Yeesh.
Time to pull the “air traffic controller fix”.
Teachers in most districts are constantly being pulled from the classroom in order to undergo “training”. A majority of this training deals with how to administer tests and how to teach the new standards. It’s ridiculous.
“You’re like a San Francisco School Teacher......No class!”
“Educators” or “Leaches”. You decide.
Please. Have some empathy. Don’t you know that teachers work 24 hours a day and give back all of their earnings to buy their students pencils and paper?
My parents were both civil servants for NYC back in the day. My mother at one point told us she had something like 60 days a year she could take off, between holidays, sick time, and vacation.
I might not be remembering the number exactly right, but it was a boat-load of days.
My brothers and I (young working adults at that time) were shocked.
My SIL was a special education teacher. She lost her job because she couldn’t keep up with the required governmental paperwork and still put out a decent lesson plan for her students. She would take vacation and sick time just to stay home and do her government work, which averaged 3-4 hours per night in her classroom which had too many students.
Are there bad teachers? Sure. Are there good teachers we don’t hear about who are overburdened by government? Absolutely.
keyboard spew alert
I really should have kept track of how many keyboards I ruthlessly exterminated over the years.
*sigh*
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