Gulp...I know I’ll get some flak for this, but gotta say a few things about teachers:
1. They work for about 10 months in most states, and have MANDATORY summer workshops they must attend, and their salaries are usually paid over an annual basis. Their classrooms are expected to be cleaned out at end of year (after kids go home) and then ready at beginning of year (for all those Open House events), so they put in their time making that happen. I know, cuz I’ve helped my sister and my niece who are both teachers in Louisiana, and way back eons ago I taught in Mississippi.
2. Like any profession, there are good ones and then those who work the system, leach off the taxpayer, and give education a really bad name/smell.
3. Gotta point at the administration (at all levels in any school system) and say they are overpaid, overstaffed, not ideal for their roles. Very few have good “field” experience that makes them credible and a role model for the teachers they supervise. Sadly, a lot of em have their noses so far up the next upper level supervisor’s rectum that they sneeze brown when then upper level flatuates. Most of em need to be back in the classroom on a mandatory 1 day/week so they can practice what they preach. Usually their practices are so stupid that even new kindergarten students roll their eyes.
Yeah, I know they’re still stupid for being Democrats, and for supporting their unions (I got a lot of gripe about that) but God Bless the good ones who stick it out anyway and try to teach our kids. Not all of em are bad...but our overall American education system sucks when compared to other industrialized countries fer sure. I don’t know what the solution is, cuz it’s all like an onion: the more you cut it, the more you cry.
“2. Like any profession, there are good ones and then those who work the system, leach off the taxpayer, and give education a really bad name/smell.”
Very few professions leach off the taxpayers and those few that do are constantly complaining that the blood is not flowing fast enough.
“Gotta point at the administration (at all levels in any school system) and say they are overpaid, overstaffed, not ideal for their roles.”
I agree, the administration costs have skyrocketed and are largely unnecessary. However, a large majority of the teachers want to be in those positions, so ultimately they support having such a bloated administration.