[ExSoldier]

Tell you what, why don't YOU step into my inner city classroom and TEACH for a week. I'll even provide you with lesson plans and resources. All you have to do is keep control of the class, TEACH the material and grade the 200+ papers each week. Last year we had a teacher jumped outside his class right across the hall from mine (I was out sick that day) by an entire family who took offense that the teacher had confiscated the female studen't iPod. The girl SLAPPED the teacher on the spot and was taken by security. According to board policy she should have been arrested but the liberal principal then said poor thing, not her fault and put her on outdoor suspension (vacation). So the family consisting of crackhead mom and other sister and golden gloves boxer brother jumps the teacher and they break his jaw in three places. Gee all that and a tiny paycheck too! Walk a mile in my shoes before you shoot your big mouth off in reference to something about which you are totally ignorant.

[pnh102]

Walk a mile in my shoes before you shoot your big mouth off in reference to something about which you are totally ignorant.

If this was the school district into which I paid my taxes, I would demand some respect for those of us who pay the salaries of the teachers in question. If they want the job, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine too. Just because these teachers don't seem to be interested in working under the conditions you describe doesn't mean that other people would not be interested.

[gogeo]

Looked at your entire post and said...true, all of it. Why?

Because schooling is an entitlement.

Those not interested in getting with the program should be booted.

Where do you suppose this entitlement status came from?

Your union, among others.

So, don't b!tch about the state of schools today unless you're willing to b!tch about the role your union played in making it so.

This is just reason #142 why public schools are failures, and will get worse.

[Lurker]

So the family consisting of crackhead mom and other sister and golden gloves boxer brother jumps the teacher and they break his jaw in three places.

Your co-worker is an idiot. He can file charges all by his widdle lonesome. It only takes a trip to a Courthouse to swear out a complaing.

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