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Sounds good...

Too bad the most popular bumper sticker for teachers here in Illinois reads:

The 3 best things about teaching: June! July! August!

My perception of public school teachers here in Illinois is that they are unqualified or motivated to have a real job. They are usually English or arts majors, who cannot function in the real world.

This is their way to get on the public teat. Once there, they cannot be removed.

Pedophile teachers here are commonly given early retirement, and almost never fired because the unions will fight tooth and nail (the cost is too high to fire a union employee)

Teachers who do not perform job functions are just left alone because they cannot be fired.

Teachers here in Illinois do not work late. In fact, they even give off days of school to hold Parent Teacher conferences (heaven forbid the teacher would have to stay late a few nights a week like they used to).

Teachers don't even have to drive to school when it snows, they have snow days. The parents are 1,000 students are supposed to find alternatives to watch their children or take a day off of work, because a teacher doesn't have the education to get his/her car out of the driveway (in Chicago where we have plows....)

Teachers here complain they only get the cost of living increase each year.... Most companies don't get that... And on top of that, they get step increases in pay, based on useless classes they take.... diversity, arts, etc. And these raises are automatic.

Here in Illinois, it costs an average of $14,000 to give an education to each child per year. Yes it is an abhoration that teacher should finance classroom supplies. Why is that public schools cost that much, deliver a crap product, and then need more money? Pensions pensions pensions ... exactly where our own social security program is headed....

How do catholic schools get by on $4,000 a year per pupil? And turn out a better student?

Because those teachers that teach in catholic schools truly are there FOR THE KIDS not the WELFARE.

I don't want to hear again "Its for the KIDS" when I see you driving your Cadillac Escalade with the bumper sticker that reads: "The best things about teaching: JUNE JULY AUGUST"

Teachers who do not perform job functions are just left alone because they cannot be fired.

Yes, they can. Sometimes the administrators don't want to go through the hassle of documenting the reason for the firing.

Teachers here in Illinois do not work late. In fact, they even give off days of school to hold Parent Teacher conferences (heaven forbid the teacher would have to stay late a few nights a week like they used to).

At my school, we do both, but we find more parents will actually come to conferences on a specified conference day.

If you think it's a waste of time, why don't you contact your local school board? Notice that in most states, the students still have to be at school at least 180 days per year, so it's not actually giving the teachers any "time off".

Teachers don't even have to drive to school when it snows, they have snow days. The parents are 1,000 students are supposed to find alternatives to watch their children or take a day off of work, because a teacher doesn't have the education to get his/her car out of the driveway (in Chicago where we have plows....)

More likely, the school system doesn't want to be sued if a bus skids, or some teenager driving to work has an accident, etc.

I'm sorry, but it sounds as if your biggest problem with the schools is that they aren't dependable year-round baby sitters.

My perception of public school teachers here in Illinois is that they are unqualified or motivated to have a real job. They are usually English or arts majors, who cannot function in the real world.

Part of that is because of the actions of educational liberals who while offering lip service saying we should have more qualified teachers, are making it easier for any Joe Schmo to become as such.