Posted by LAM214 on March 10, 2011, 7:00 pm, in reply to "Re: Great news!!"
because teachers work 60 hour weeks.
Maybe, MAYBE five to ten percent work sixty hours a week.
A lot of this work is not done at school I believe the percentage who work these hours to be MUCH higher than 5 to 10 percent.
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.
Your child's school is very fortunate. Most schools, unfortunately do not have this kind of support. The truth is the days of teachers doing JUST those things is history. Now they are also serving as counselors, nurses, teaching appropriate behavior and character and so much more.
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.
Not so. The prepared curriculum (if the district is even lucky enough to afford one) is just one small piece. A good teacher would never rely entirely on those resources. Good teachers develop engaging and interesting lessons from several sources, many purchased with their own money and developed or created outside of the normal school day. That would include summers.
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.
Clearly this is an exaggeration, but many schools DO have environments that grow closer and closer to this example every year and further away from the type of classroom that encourages and promotes learning.