Posted by whatusay on March 10, 2011, 6:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Great news!!"
YOU DO GET SUMMERS OFF
because teachers work 60 hour weeks.
Maybe, MAYBE five to ten percent work sixty hours a week.
But for you to claim all teachers do is insane.
Kid, I was at my children's school EVERYDAY, volunteering in classrooms, in the office, doing PTA and the TRUTH is I was there a whole lot more than most of the teachers...NO MATTER WHAT YOU CLAIM.
And I was volunteering in this district for well over twenty years, much longer than you have even been able to teach.
Your claim is ridiculous, beyond ridiculous.
The days of teachers running dittos, grading papers, with huge, huge amounts of preparation is history! Thanks to parental volunteers and teacher's aids.
You have to admit that seventy five percent of what's being taught is from a "commercially prepared cirriculum" that anyone could read through and study, then implement and teach to a group of people...plain and simple.
Good grief, you act like this job requires a genius level IQ and untolled hours and hours and hours of preparation, to teach huge, enormous class rooms of unruly hooligans that are hanging out the windows, throwing text books at each other, all the while doing it in a classroom of 115 degree weather for twelve hours a day, five days a week while being lashed by a horsewhip and earning ten dollars a day.