AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN!!! Yeah, it does amaze me how "much" some seem to "know" about ALL teachers. There are a lot of us who DO care and who DO do a good job. There are some who don't and it's the negative that gets focused upon. It's gotten easier to just pass the blame for a lot of things on teachers, but there are multiple factors for things. Nonetheless, you just keep going and doing your job. To me, it's what my little students and parents say that matter the most, not the doom and gloom and negativists who puport to know all about me.
I just googled and found that there are roughly 3 million teachers in the U.S. With threads and attitudes like this one, they will probably never, ever vote for a conservative candidate.
Hey Moog, are you taking a sick day? ;-)
My wife teaches fifth grade with 34 kids in her class. Most, if not all, are low-income. Many are military families, so that helps, but every year she has at least 3 kids who disrupt everything. I finally convinced her to boot them to the principal, and that helps her.
In the 8 years in her district, she has had no parent volunteers in her class. She earns her salary with that many kids. And she is very well paid.
When I compare her hourly, adjusted for months and hours worked, she makes less than a CPA or other professional. But she makes plenty, and does not complain at all.