Posted on 04/13/2002 4:04:37 AM PDT by serinde
Teacher's reply to Principal's counseling session:
Let me see if I've got this right. You want me to go into that room with all those kids, and fill their every waking moment with a love for learning.
Not only that, I'm to instill a sense of pride in their ethnicity, behaviorally modify disruptive behavior, and observe them for signs of abuse, drugs, and T-shirt messages. (And check to see that shorts have a 4" inseam, blouses cover belly buttons, and no one's crack or underwear is showing.)
I am to fight the war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, check their backpacks for guns and raise their self-esteem. I'm to teach them patriotism, good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, how and where to register to vote, how to balance a checkbook and how to apply for a job, but I am never to ask if they are in this country illegally.
I am to check their heads occasionally for lice, maintain a safe environment, recognize signs of potential antisocial behavior, offer advice, write letters of recommendation for student employment and scholarships, encourage respect for the cultural diversity of others, and oh yeah, teach, always making sure that I give the girls in my class fifty percent of my attention.
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, to sponsor the cheerleaders or the sophomore class and after school I am to attend committee and faculty meetings and participate in staff development training to maintain my current certification and employment status.
I am to collect data and maintain all records to support and document our building's progress in the selected state mandated program to "assess and upgrade educational excellence in the public schools."
I am to be a paragon of virtue larger than life, such that my very presence will awe my students into being obedient and respectful of authority. I am to pledge allegiance to supporting family values, a return to the basics, and my current administration.
I am to incorporate technology into the learning, but monitor all web sites for appropriateness while providing a personal one-on-one relationship with each student. I am to decide who might be potentially dangerous and/or liable to commit crimes in school or who is possibly being abused and I can be sent to jail for not mentioning these suspicions to those in authority.
I am to make sure ALL students pass the state and federally mandated testing and all classes, whether or not they attend school on a regular basis or complete any of the work assigned. I am to communicate frequently with each student's parent by letter, phone, newsletter, and grade card. I'm to do all of this with just a piece of chalk, a computer, a few books, a bulletin board, a 45 minute or less plan time, and a big smile on a starting salary that qualifies my family for food stamps in many states.
Is that all? And you want me to do all of this and expect me to do it without praying?
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.
cranking out these mindless devil voting monsters...
the dumber the better---keep evolving govt---dependence!
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.
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 4/13/02 2:20 AM Hawaii-Aleutian by Iris7
It's a lot worse than that---
Why is the govt establishing evolution-atheism as the state religion of America and forbidding the teaching of all else when evolution is any thing but science...it's all about politics---LIBERALISM...expanding--evolving govt!
Evolution is nannyism---the electrononic--media circus...people only have to be entertained and amused!
Thinking--understanding...not following the dumb-downed masses is dangerous---
junk schools/curriculum and nobody will think worse of liar--thieves--scoundrels...
clintons prove the success of public schools---devilcrats---mobacracy!
Grow a brain--see the light--truth...
Here's a... little history lesson--- you'll never see in the evolutionary seminary(create the liberal paradise/utopia)!
A 'good' little something. . .
. . .absolutely agree!
I would not want a teacher who is in it for the money or a lawyer who is not.
I also wish teachers would work with the union to decrease all of this "non-education garbage".
Nowadays that would be considered non union slave labor!
Thinking--understanding...not following the dumb-downed masses is dangerous---
junk schools/curriculum and nobody will think worse of liar--thieves--scoundrels...
clintons prove the success of public schools---devilcrats---mobacracy!
7 posted on 4/13/02 2:43 AM Hawaii-Aleutian by f.Christian
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To: patrick henry; jedigirl; vaderetro; nebullis; radio astronomer
"getting something for nothing"...sure---
Grow a brain--see the light--truth...
Here's a... little history lesson---you'll never see in the evolutionary seminary(create the liberal paradise/utopia)!
8 posted on 4/13/02 3:20 AM Hawaii-Aleutian by f.Christian
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