Posted on 02/04/2006 8:54:24 PM PST by george76
Hopefully we all can choose a profession that we enjoy. Thus going to work should be generally enjoyable and not just to get a pay check.
However, that is often not the case.
Sometimes it is good to change careers to be re-motivated. Doing the same thing for 30 years can be enough.
Having an ex-scientist from industry might make for a good science or math teacher even if they do not have an "education" degree.
I'm assuming that they weren't able to harvest your friend's brother's kidneys for your friend? Wow, that really sucks. I'm not yet on dialysis, but my function is low enough that it could happen any week now. I have labs again this week; fingers crossed that they will be stable.
Taking 40 days off to care for a child with cancer is totally reasonable. That does not look bad.
We are glad that she is fine, now.
Best Wishes.
I certainly can relate. Our hospital (large tertiary care center in a rural setting) had almost the same atmosphere as your NYC hospital; mental health days were taken liberally. When they implemented the new PTO/ETO system, it changed the nurses' way of thinking about sick time (as well as all of the other employees). I'm thankful now that I have the sick time built up, because now is when I really need it.
I think there's a lot to be said about your last statement; your conscience is clear because you didn't abuse your sick time, plus you have a better reputation for having not abused it (I recently had to take 3 days off related to my chronic illness; everyone was talking about it, saying "boy, he must REALLY be sick if he took sick time").
I agree with ALL that you say here. I would like to see some of the things happen in the last paragraph, particularly having more male teachers. AND it is happening in certain places. My brother did that in Texas as a hydrogeologist. He did find out that teaching wasn't as easy as he thought and the pay and benefits were really lousy there as well so he quit after a year. He did enjoy the kids. He went into the Air Force instead.
As a teacher, you learn most by doing it, that's for sure. Good comments.
Yep, it was too late to get the kidneys. My friend had ONE kidney barely functioning for years. I really wish you good luck. Pray hard is all I'll say. Knowing you to be the sincere individual you are, I'm sure you'll pull through it pretty well.
The kids would see that the parents care. It seems that many immigrant families from Asia make sure the home work is done, the kid is not hanging out, getting into trouble, etc. Their kids often end up well schooled with graduate degrees at the better universities.
You obviously don't know any good teachers. My wife is up till 10:30 to 11 every night grading papers and making lesson plans. Of her 3 months off in the summer; she teaches 6 weeks of summer school, 3 weeks of seminars, conferences, and continuing education (required).
Not all teachers are as dedicated, but then again, not all teachers are union loving deadbeats either.
Again I agree with you here. There are PLENTY of opportunities to get involved here for parents. I REALLY appreciate those parents who do. We teachers LOVE stay-at-home moms who form the backbone of a lot of it.
We teachers need to show that we care about the kids. And I think a LOT of us could use a change in attitude.
I do try to apply a lot what I learn from others in my own classroom. Thanks for continuing that. I learn a lot from people here at FR.
I spent some time in Korea. The parents often competed to see who could get the teachers' attention. As for studying, oh boy, did they ever study.
Chicago is really a mess. It looks like they have not yet hit bottom.
Running off Walmart will cost themselves millions of tax dollars per year.
Kudos to your wife. Sounds familiar. :)
As an employer the easy solution is to pay people at the end of the year for all but, say 3, unused sick days.
Not that hard.
(You do need to have a few sick days for which people won't get paid; otherwise, you'll get people coming in with the flu.)
To make sure they have their right adress to mail their paychecks to.
If a teacher is a professional, how can there even be such a thing as a substitute teacher?
We have a generation of parents who must be re-educated, as from the early 90s up to the present day, it has been too convenient for them to give schools the job of raising, rather than teaching, their children.
BOTH parents and the unions are to blame for current problems. Parents must start raising their children properly and teachers are going to have to start denouncing union liberal politics - or public schools will continue to decline.
The condition of public schools is the mirror of the condition of society as a whole.
6-8 % doesn't seem terribly high. I'd say the average large corporation probably has a similar rate. the difference of course, is taxpayer money taken by force versus consumer choice with a private company.
we should expect and get more with our confiscated dollars-we don't.
This is revealing...39 week work year.
"$10 million spent annually by district for classroom subs..."
"Chicago teachers missed an average of 12 unscheduled days in their 39-week work year..."
"By comparison, salaried employees nationwide take an average of five sick and personal days during their 50-week work year..."
Nice to have a 39 week work year.
Nice to have a 39 week work year.
I concur. however, I don't normally have to worry about being shot or sued nor do I have to deal with these little heathens or their parental unit/guardians.
Last year I missed 4 days for jury duty, 3 days taking care of a sick family member, and 2 part days for doctor appointments I was unable to schedule after school hours. Some doctors won't schedule appointments after 3 p.m.
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