Posted on 08/27/2015 8:45:53 AM PDT by MichCapCon
I aced the SAT Math, and got 740/800 on the Verbal (this was before it was a 3-part, 2400 point max). Also, I think you mean the SAT, not the LSAT, which is taken before Law School. (My LSAT score was 171, though... in the 98th percentile).
But I do understand your point. There is no shortage of slobbering idiots in the teaching field, some of whom, in my experience, likely could not pass their own tests for their students.
Among MY winning Presidential platform ideas, for my imaginary run at the office, would be de-fanging unions when it comes to defending bad teachers and bad police. Who can possibly want to stand up for them, and make it impossible to get rid of them? They DO exist, as we all know from the news (for police), and from our own childhoods (for teachers). Life gets better for EVERYONE when we have fewer bad (corrupt, evil, stupid, belligerent, abusive, exploitative) police and teachers in our world.
Performance pay for teachers: http://hanushek.stanford.edu/publications/teacher-quality
I can and I did.
I'm not saying it is true for all disciplines but for mine it was true. I did send students to state and then national competitive event each year for many of the years I taught electronics, physics and engineering. So, it cannot be said that the quality of their training suffered in any way.
As for prep time and post teaching time, I did that at school and previously at work too. I always showed up early and stayed until the job was complete for the day regardless of the clock. So, I consider that aspect as part of a good work ethic, not an obligation.
I also did coaching and had supplemental contracts for that. As far as I am concerned that was not an obligation but a choice I made for the compensation offered. I didn't consider those hours as part of my "teaching day". Rather they were part of the committment I made to some students and the district to provide an extra service.
As far as IEPs, yes I agree they were a pain in many ways. So were parent teacher meetings regarding discipline and I despised in-service group gropes. If there was anything I considered a waste of time it was the touchy-feely motivational in-services.
Yes, that is how averages work. Why not say "including those with no experience"?
I used to be a jr high leader in my old church.
One of my former kids had contacted me via e-mail back when Zero was first running for Prez.
We'd have some back and forths on stuff. He was a silver spooned diaper baby, who naturally became a staunch liberal and moved up to Minneapolis. He was a teacher up there. He said he was actually a principal of a school, at that point.
The spelling and grammar were ATROCIOUS. When pointed out to him, he shrugged it off saying he didn't need to worry about it, he had a secretary who took care of the small stuff like that.
I pointed out that he was a teacher, with many years of education behind him and that I was just a dumb construction worker with 3 years of junior college education in technical classes.
Like all liberals, it didn't bother him. In fact, he was rather proud that he was in such a high position (whether he was or not...???) and yet in correspondence he came across as a second grader.
You know what they say, “those that can do, those that can’t, teach”.
NJ is in the same boat as Albany; huge amounts paid to teachers (I believe they work 180 days here, 6 hours per day). They are bankrupting the towns and taxpayers, and causing a brain drain in which anyone who can is leaving. Soon NJ will be just illegal aliens (we import them to keep schools filled) and welfare populations; employers are fleeing when they are handed the bill for administering these populations (with cops, teachers, etc.).
Once so many Americans stopped breeding, it was only a matter of time before people took a hard look at what they were paying teachers (to teach other peoples’ children). The Asbury Park Press exposed the teachers when it published all of their salaries (as public information) years ago; they are pariahs now, interacting only with other government workers in their own incestuous bubble.
Don’t say “9 months of work”; they literally work less than half the year (about 180 days). When you put it in that context, and also clarify that these are not 9-5 days, then it is clear these are part-time jobs.
yes, sad but so true.
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