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gadjitfreek (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 08:42 AM Original message |
Next time someone tells you a teacher is a glorified babysitter... |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
1. Those teachers make billions, they are so rich they live in gated communities |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 08:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. +1 |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
3. Indeed. "Be careful what you ask for. You're going to *get* it." |
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woodsprite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
4. What would you say about |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 09:41 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Good post. There are bad teachers in every pool of good ones. |
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gadjitfreek (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 09:58 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. This is true, but remember... |
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gadjitfreek (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 09:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. You're going to see this actually increase. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 10:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Are you informed and aware of district and state mandates |
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gadjitfreek (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 11:19 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Teachers are given "core curricula" |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 02:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Sounds like just the type of teacher Arne Duncan's looking for. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 05:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. I applaud this teacher. There is zero research supporting homework |
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woodsprite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 05:33 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Actually, this year his first state grades were 3s. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 05:43 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. If homework was the answer to raising test scores, you'd have a point |
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Tatiana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 06:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. I'd say that the teacher is probably listening to our Education Secretary Arne Duncan. |
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canoeist52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
8. What if we pay the teachers $3/hr. like babysitters? |
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gadjitfreek (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 10:14 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. That's far more than I am earning |
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Zax2me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
12. People say that? |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
13. The last person who told me that was my ex-sister in law |
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chaska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
15. Can I just say, in 16 years of schooling I never had a bad teacher.... |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 04:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Well, I did have one that was a bad teacher. He was fired half way |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
16. Kick. nt |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
22. So let's pay them like babysitters then....... |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
23. With pay and benefit cuts, there will be a time when as long as you are breathing |
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