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Sun Jul-17-05 12:23 PM
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articles like this piss me off more than I can say. What we do for a living is hard enough, we don't need average Joe out there convinced we are incompetent fools who couldn't find jobs anywhere else.
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| -Low-income schools lack top teachers |
Judi Lynn |
Jul-17-05 05:49 AM |
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I know some teachers in low-income schools |
postulater |
Jul-17-05 06:01 AM |
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Yep. The same thing is happening in Chicago. |
iconoclastic cat |
Jul-17-05 10:34 AM |
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Because you like kids? |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 11:52 AM |
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Oh, I do love kids. What is happening to American culture, however, |
iconoclastic cat |
Jul-17-05 12:12 PM |
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Me too |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:18 PM |
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Yeah, that's a good way to go. If I am hired by school, I'll try that. |
iconoclastic cat |
Jul-17-05 12:23 PM |
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I am so glad to hear that |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:25 PM |
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Well, last year was my first year, and when it went well, it was great. |
iconoclastic cat |
Jul-17-05 12:29 PM |
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Every teacher's first year was a disaster |
Yupster |
Jul-18-05 12:07 AM |
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A friend of mine has been teaching in inner city HS for years now. |
barb162 |
Jul-17-05 12:20 PM |
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I don't have any evidence that the "coke baby" phenomenon is real, |
iconoclastic cat |
Jul-17-05 12:27 PM |
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No, research indicates that there really is no such thing as a coke baby |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:35 PM |
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My friend said he can tell a coke kid in a few minutes. He was |
barb162 |
Jul-17-05 12:48 PM |
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Your friend is misinformed |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:30 PM |
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Yes, and I would wonder . . . |
donco6 |
Jul-17-05 01:14 PM |
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Kids who are smart enough to take Physics in high school |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 01:22 PM |
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Absolutely. |
donco6 |
Jul-17-05 01:28 PM |
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Yup, you got that right... |
CGrantt57 |
Jul-17-05 10:46 AM |
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I am a teacher in a low income school |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 11:55 AM |
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Damn right! |
iconoclastic cat |
Jul-17-05 12:14 PM |
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Glad you agree |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:23 PM |
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Good posts proud2Blib... |
Iowa |
Jul-17-05 04:24 PM |
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Thanks Iowa |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 09:27 PM |
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But...that's the perception... |
lapislzi |
Jul-17-05 07:58 PM |
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Well, I email a local reporter regularly |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 09:34 PM |
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I am not sure it is the teachers. My friend has a masters in physics |
barb162 |
Jul-17-05 12:24 PM |
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And the administrators allow that? |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 01:09 PM |
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And if the best teachers available taught there |
cmd |
Jul-17-05 06:12 AM |
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Agreed. Well said. n/t |
krkaufman |
Jul-17-05 08:03 AM |
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And the parents need to have jobs too |
postulater |
Jul-17-05 11:44 AM |
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I am a highly qualified teacher |
dsc |
Jul-17-05 06:28 AM |
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I always thought if teachers had their tuition paid off from college by |
Catfight |
Jul-17-05 07:23 AM |
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I can't think of how many federal laws this would break. |
donco6 |
Jul-17-05 11:55 AM |
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simply changing when breaks happen would help |
dsc |
Jul-17-05 04:01 PM |
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Yes. |
donco6 |
Jul-17-05 07:23 PM |
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We had those!! |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:12 PM |
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I had NDEA loans |
cmd |
Jul-17-05 03:02 PM |
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You high school math teachers are going to have to accept the fact |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:04 PM |
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That isn't what I meant |
dsc |
Jul-17-05 03:56 PM |
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Well you never subbed in my classroom or in my school |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 09:46 PM |
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On some things yes and on others no |
dsc |
Jul-18-05 12:05 AM |
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In some districts like Chicago the senior teachers couldn't |
barb162 |
Jul-17-05 12:27 PM |
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wow I never heard of that |
dsc |
Jul-17-05 03:58 PM |
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The link sends one to a different story... |
teach1st |
Jul-17-05 06:33 AM |
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Thanks for providing the correct link. Very embarrassed here.... n/t |
Judi Lynn |
Jul-17-05 11:19 AM |
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Hasn't it always been that the "better schools" were in the wealthy |
napi21 |
Jul-17-05 10:58 AM |
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That is not true everywhere |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:14 PM |
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I teach in a low-income school... |
YvonneCa |
Jul-17-05 11:45 AM |
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I'm in central administration for a low-income district, |
donco6 |
Jul-17-05 11:59 AM |
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The only teachers that can last in a low income area |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:15 PM |
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Several of my classmates became teachers in the inner city |
barb162 |
Jul-17-05 12:33 PM |
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I have done this for 25 years |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:37 PM |
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It was happening often in Chicago |
barb162 |
Jul-17-05 12:50 PM |
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So are you saying no one should work there? |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 01:05 PM |
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I have no idea how strong the union is |
barb162 |
Jul-17-05 04:27 PM |
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There are all these reasons the schools are terrible |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 09:24 PM |
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In nine years in urban Denver . . . |
donco6 |
Jul-17-05 07:27 PM |
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1 out of 10 American teenagers can't identify the US on a world globe.nt |
VegasWolf |
Jul-17-05 12:02 PM |
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And you know that from where? |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 12:17 PM |
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You're watching too much Jay Leno. eom |
donco6 |
Jul-17-05 01:05 PM |
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I heard that only a few days ago, also. It didn't seem possible! |
Judi Lynn |
Jul-17-05 01:09 PM |
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1997 was 8 years ago |
proud2Blib |
Jul-17-05 01:31 PM |
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New Study: 1 in 2 DUers can't tell ass from hole in ground. |
donco6 |
Jul-17-05 03:39 PM |
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Runner up for this month's "You Call This NEWS?" award |
rocknation |
Jul-17-05 12:13 PM |
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Not necessarily. |
donco6 |
Jul-17-05 01:04 PM |
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actually it is as much working conditions as salary |
dsc |
Jul-18-05 12:44 AM |
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My daughter wants to teach in NYC |
HockeyMom |
Jul-17-05 01:32 PM |
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This is news...to who? |
Placebo |
Jul-18-05 12:50 AM |
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