This is such a huge story and needs to be shouted from the mountain tops. Thanks for posting.
There is simply no industry in our nation that has so obviously failed and yet remains so incredibly sacred in the minds of so many.
8 months work,no weekends, uncountable number of holidays and tenure...overpaid for sure!
The superintendent gets paid a couple hundred thousand a year to basically run the district into the ground. Their idea for improving schools is to have a full time curriculum staff that is constantly changing the coursework. Every time you turn around they are replacing core academics with more multi-cultural, self esteem based "learning."
Until we get these districts to get back to the basics they will continue to fail their students. How does it help a kid's self esteem when he can't make change at McDonald's without having the register tell him what to do?
There is a reason they call them elementary schools.
When I was in school I had a buddy who was not cutting it and he was told by his academic advisor that he had two choices. Flunk out and go home or switch majors and get and Education degree. The school of education was chock full of the academic rejects from the rest of the university.
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One notible area where that is not true is vocational education. In our state a voc ed teacher needs at least three thousand hours in their field to be considered for certification. In my case I also had a BS in electronics engineering and 9 years in the USAF as well as 12 years in aerospace experience.
The highest compliment I could received was "You're not like my other teachers".
The DoD has an excellent program, Warriors to Teachers, that receives little support through the districts that I am familiar with.
If pay was ‘results-oriented’; teachers would be paid the rough equivalent of a teen-age babysitter.
I think teaching is a talent that can’t be learned in college. That means teaching effectiveness can’t be improved greatly with degrees, particularly advanced degrees.
Everyone has encountered some PhDers who can’t communicate basic ideas.
Who is really overpaid considering impact on the future of the country, teachers or stockbrokers? If you want the best pay the most. If education is failing pay more for teachers.
Children in the sixties KNEW how to make change...now they can’t. Solution? Give teachers a raise...then our children will know how to make change again. Hallelujah!
#1: I'm married to one and she has to support my lifestyle.
Well, they’re smart enough to have school board and school levy elections during the Spring. Just because they’re not very smart doesn’t mean that they’re not greedy.
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