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A little something from a teacher's perspective.
1 posted on 04/13/2002 4:04:37 AM PDT by serinde
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Teachers must toe the PC line, stay out of trouble without any authority, and are the lowest intelligence of all college graduates as a group. "Schools of Education" are moronic. A sorry mess.

Makes you wonder if the government monopoly on education can continue - but it will, it buys too many votes and the lower classes think they are getting something for nothing.

2 posted on 04/13/2002 4:20:20 AM PDT by Iris7
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Isn't that the nature of the business---

cranking out these mindless devil voting monsters...

the dumber the better---keep evolving govt---dependence!

3 posted on 04/13/2002 4:21:03 AM PDT by f.Christian
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Interesting post. I can't imagine why anyone would want their children in a school where people are irrational enough to try to conform to this agenda. Better home schooling or parochial schools.
4 posted on 04/13/2002 4:37:39 AM PDT by Judith Anne
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With all due respect, some of this is a bit of a whine:

I'm required by my contract to be working, on my own time, summer and evenings and at my own expense towards additional certification, advance certification and a master's degree

I have no sympathy for the above. Plenty of other professionals have to do the same thing at thier own expense to. In the end it reeps it's rewards by maintaining a job and getting promotions and raises for advanced degrees--so what he has to do it on his own time, so do most other people!

As for starting salary I have to disagree. Most teachers I know go into the profession before they have started thier own families or even married and the ones I have known started a few thousand more than other licensed(certified) professionals I have known(having been one of them too and knowing a number of teachers) and as one of them(licensed professional) and a single person at that time, I would not have qualified for any federal assistance. I think that's an exageration unless of course he's assuming every teacher who starts does so with a family of four. In fact, I just looked at starting salaries in our area and most, except in the very rural areas, are over 30k. I'd say that's not that bad of a starting salary particularly considering what it was only 10 years ago.

I have to say that I am a homeschooler and I'd probably respect this rant a little more if the teacher's as a whole would dispose of thier corrupt union and fight to return things to a local level. When I see that they are on the parent's and the kid's side, than I'll take another look at this man's rants.

5 posted on 04/13/2002 4:41:15 AM PDT by glory
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Aw, gee. Does this cut into your time for preaching from Das Kapital and EnviroNazi bibles?
9 posted on 04/13/2002 5:55:34 AM PDT by Feckless
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"A little something from a teacher's perspective."

A 'good' little something. . .

10 posted on 04/13/2002 6:00:29 AM PDT by cricket
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I have received this same email twice, from two different teacher friends. My impression is that it is being widely circulated.
13 posted on 04/13/2002 6:30:22 AM PDT by summer
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I know the point of this is that the teacher wants to be able to pray in order to do her job well. However, I just received a letter from the Capistrano Unified School District (California) and 48 teachers earn more than $90,000, and 7 earn over $100,000 and that is for 185 days of work!

I also wish teachers would work with the union to decrease all of this "non-education garbage".

15 posted on 04/13/2002 9:15:12 AM PDT by Angel
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BTTT
20 posted on 06/10/2002 10:22:26 AM PDT by EdReform
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