[DainBramage]

Most teachers are nothing more than glorified civil servants. They get four months vacation, get home everyday by 3:30 , have weekends free and have federal holidays off. They are protected from having to ever produce anything of value, and they have unlimited job security. What a bunch of bull. Teachers these days are the least educated, creative people on earth. They have the cushiest jobs, and they under preform even most of their own students. They get tax rebates for being a teacher, and I have yet to meet one of them who actually raises their own children. I am sick of the grading papers baloney. Most teachers deserve the scorn they get for their entitlement attitude.

You don't know many teachers, or you don't tell the truth easily.

Four months vacation? lol Get home everyday by 3:30? LOL My wife gets there at 7:30 and never leaves before 4:30 and rarely eats lunch due to parent meetings or or covering another class. And wow, she has raised five kids, all in honors classes with 4.0s.

Shes taught for 7 years and makes 38,000. She regularly gets cursed out by parents whose child hasn't done a single assignment but wants her to pass them anyway, or shakes their genitals at her, or speaks only spanish.

BTW she's not in the union and by choice, and there are many more just like her. Be very careful about lumping them all together. Its not their job to baby sit, but to teach. They cannot make them learn, they have to be taught that from home for free.

The demand for teachers is very high because most won't stay in it because of the abuse, not the pay. In Dallas this year they started out several hundred short. If the market demand is there, then price goes up, just like your job. What a country.

[supercat]

The demand for teachers is very high because most won't stay in it because of the abuse, not the pay.

How much of the abuse comes from administrators who have to justify their own existence?

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Well perhaps your wife is one of the few good ones, the others I have worked with and known all my life are lazy, self centered slobs. In my job, well, I teach for free. I have a high passion for education and for leraning and I love my job.. I get no pay, no benefits no sick days, holidays or vacation. I work 24/7 for free. I don't expect anyone to pick up my tab or increase my benefits. I deal with many issues a day and I get little respect and no awards. I still will keep my job and I will die fulfilled. I am a homeschool mom of two great boys. I am lucky to have the greatest job on earth and I will do it all for FREE. Are you saying that your wife's co-workers who are in the union are all struggling, hard working ,teachers who work their butts off just to be able to have the joy of instilling wisdom upon young people. I thought not. I said Most teachers are glorified civil servants. They have an entitlement attitiude, they deserve the scorn they get. Perhaps your wife is the exception to the rule. A goo dold fashioned , conservative hard working , educated teacher who loves to teach.

[glory]

Look I have sympathy for your wife, but it's hard to feel much more than that when your wife supports "the system". Get back to me when she supports releasing mandatory attendance or school choice and then we'll talk.