“(Please dont rant, I qualified the teachers the comment is referring to.)”
Why?? As someone quite brilliantly put it, where were the teachers that supported the (Wisconsin) governor demonstrating?
No where - no where to be found. They seem to have no problem with the lunatics running the system - or else they would organize and SPEAK UP.
No, they do not...in fact, there probably are not that many, as they elect their unions leaders (in fair elections) and have yet to find a SINGLE UNION LEADER who gives a rats ass about whether kids are learning anything.
So, if they are any good teachers out there, they HAVE A DUTY TO BE HEARD. And if they don’t feel it’s worth the effort, then they are simply enablers.
,” where were the teachers that supported the (Wisconsin) governor demonstrating? “
With no evidence to back this up, may I hypothesize??
Perhaps they were in their classrooms, doing their FREAKIN’ JOBS!!!!
Well many of the good teachers stayed in the schools to keep teaching. I’m not saying every single one that stayed is a good teacher, I’m saying they’d be the kind of teacher to keep teaching while the union lovers went to Madison.
The bottom line of this is:
1. teachers in general for the amount of time they work get good pay and benefits - most of the private sector doesn’t have it as good, and since almost no teachers quit, they think so too.
2. Everyone has stuff about their jobs they don’t like, teachers aren’t any different than anyone else. If you don’t like it teach somewhere else or get a different job altogether.
3. Stop complaining to the rest of society that doesn’t have your job security and benefits and decent wages for 9 months of work, whining about how hard you have it isn’t going to get people who have it harder than you do, which is most of us, on your side.
4. Either stop whining or don’t call yourself ‘professionals’ (that somehow have to have a union....?). No other ‘professionals’ have a union to protect them. And they don’t live off taxpayers either. They have to produce net gains, not net income drains. If you guys got paid according to results like the real world does, (ie how well the kids are doing) most of you would be earning far, far less than what you make now. And please, before you bring up “the greedy CEOs” make a real comparison to other working people, not top officers of a company. Compare your UNION BOSSES and SCHOOL SUPERINTENDANTS that make millions and hundreds of thousands of dollars to the CEOs, and compare yourselves to the average private sector worker and how they are compensated. You wind up doing better on average than the average person who’s paying your salary and benefits, by far.