Who’s fault is it teachers are losing respect? Politics corrupts everything it touches.
Pray for America
To paraphrase the left after 9/11.... did you ever ask yourselves why you’re hated?
Yeah well when millions of “amateur” parents are doing a better job than “professional” teachers? We lose respect for the class.
-—“It used to be that teachers were treated with respect,” said Pat Gillies-—
It used to be that teachers deserved respect.
Last I checked Michigan schools were number 37 in the country. I don’t respect failure. Instead I would rather home school so my kids have a future.
I think they are right the respect does not come from the home. Do your job and quit complaining then maybe we can talk about respect.
Are homeschool teachers treated with respect? They cost the taxpayer nothing, and deliver a good product. But are they treated with respect?
Just posing the question....
Grossly over paid and under worked. 99% of public school teachers give the others a bad name.
DUMMIES!!!!
OPEN YOUR DICTIONARIES (union version, of course).
“Gimmie respect” is defined in standard english means “give me a lot MORE money than you already give me and promise to give me A LOT MORE next year and the years following.”
Onec you speak the language, all is clear.
I stood up and said that this was a bad idea, and that teaching kids to actually do math was a better idea.
She explained to me that I was wrong about that.
A second parent stood up and said that I was right, the school was wrong, and that calculators were inappropriate in a second grade classroom.
The teacher chuckled a bit and said that she had years of experience in the field and she knew that she was right.
A third parent stood up ...
The Principal stepped forward, said we had a lot of ground to cover and introduced the head of the English department.
They don't respect the parents. Why should parents respect them?
I would think the year-after-year abysmal educational results might have something to do with any lack of respect they perceive.
I know some grade school teachers...personally. They are some of the stupidest, most arrogant people around. One would think a teacher of all people would at the very least know the proper uses of the words: there, their, they’re, your, you’re, yore, ware, where, were, then, than, our, are, its, it’s, possessive vs plural, and how not to use prepositions in a proper sentence. Reading the facebook pages of these so called teachers is nauseating. I don’t know what the hell kind of criteria they use to hire teachers these days but the three Rs sure ain’t it. What is it with these numbskulls that think if they are atheists they are automatically superior in science/math to any and all non atheists? Jeeze, the stupidity and arrogance is just mind boggling.
Only teachers make the unions what they are. The **majority** of TEACHERS do that! Teachers elect their union representatives. Legislators don't. Parents and voters have no control over the unions and their policies. Children are voiceless.
Government schools are what they are, because the majority **teachers** agree to make them that way and take a big fat pay check for it.
Teachers are no better or worse than the society that produces them. Our society as a whole is deficient, so our teachers will also be mostly deficient.
One important point that never seems to be mentioned in any coverage about Michigan teachers’ benefits is that MESSA, the insurance provider mentioned in that article, is a wholey-owned subsidiary of MEA, the Michigan teachers’ union.
It is a *very* expensive health insurance policy, that no other employer outside of teachers union targets would ever purchase. Even if the coverage is put up for bid, no other insurance carrier can match it because those other insurance carriers can not sell such an over-priced policy to any other employers. MESSA also has a history of never providing claims history details that a potential competing bidder would need in order to determine its financial exposure and thus what it would cost to cover a group of teachers.
The union is not only collecting dues from all its members, but also the profits from the insurance they have forced to be included in any union-approved contract.
“Those that can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those that can’t teach, administrate.”
after watching and hearing the teacher union mobs in Wisconsin, especially teaching those kids they dragged out of school to march and chant world socialist slogans, what’s not to respect?
SARC
Teachers are treated by some taxpayer with adulation. Those taxpayer generally want teachers to be given whatever the teachers demand.
More and more taxpayers are coming to the realization that they have been asked to spend way more each year than the inflation rate on education budget while the quality of the product worsens year after year. That growing group of taxpayers tends over time to see teachers unions as the thugs they are who are out to rob the taxpayers but are not decent enough to pull a standard weapon such as a knife or a gun to enforce their demands. Instead they use the first group of taxpayers a/k/a parents with children as the weapon while they hold the children as hostages.
By world standards, American K-12 education is the most lavishly funded in the world. In return, we get a level of performance that ranges from mediocre to abysmal. And we also get a freightload of guff from teachers, school administrators, and union activists whenever reforms are sought to make public education more effective and less expensive.
Do teachers respect taxpayers?
As public servants do they act like servants?
Who couldn’t be proud of teachers, especially after seeing them in action in Madison, Wisconsin..despite being “sick”.