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RANT: Teachers, why are you so whiny?
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Anonymous
This is justification for paying teachers more so it’s more competitive and more highly qualified people want to do it. In the current situation more teachers might be motivated to go back to the classroom if their salaries were doubled or tripled. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
LOL, your response is spot on! |
Anonymous
+1000. That's been my experience as well. Let's raise pay but then also make becoming a teacher far more competitive. |
Anonymous
Because firefighters run into burning buildings to save our homes and lives, stay in shape, sleep away from home, and possess skills the average person does not have? The guy who sacks my groceries has all the skills necessary to perform as well as the average public school teacher. |
Anonymous
Firefighters and other first responders really stepped up during prior national emergencies like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, etc. Doctors and medical staff have similarly stepped up now. All of them are truly heroes. This pandemic was also a chance for teachers to recognize the incredible needs in their communities and help out. Nobody suggested that teachers must run into burning buildings or take unreasonable risks, but their selfish refusal to consider any reasonable solution has only made life harder for everyone else. Complete fail! |
Anonymous
The community also had a chance to give teachers the tools they need- PPE better air filtration and recycling air systems, but parents selfish refusal to think of women’s workplace rights as their children’s workplace rights didn’t allow the conversation to happen. It did in some districts but around here nothing and it has just made life harder for everyone- complete fail!! |
Anonymous
That's total BS and you know it! From very early on the unions told school officials that ANY type of in-person was a complete non-starter. Teachers essentially shut down any discussion that could have happened over PPE, etc. Don't lie by pointing fingers at others now! |
Anonymous
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Not lying- you are comparing traditional al male dominated professions whose health and safety requests are typically heard studied and granted to a traditionally female profession who is constantly denigrated In our society. it is completely true that the second teachers began to question things we were painted as horrible and selfish because a women lead profession dared to have ideas about worker health and safety. The DCUM and other area communities didn’t listen and just chose to use their scarlet letters and anti union sentiments to malign teachers rather than listen to their safety needs. Unions have no power in VA where I reside. So no I’m not lying, but often people when presented with a paradigm
That goes against institutionalized Sexism and misogyny are astonished by what they are a part of. |
Anonymous
| I guess I think it is funny that you as a parent think that I as a teacher even care about your opinion/s. At this point I am so fed up with the teacher bashing that I'm not doing anything unless it is my best interest. When we go back, and at some point we will, I'm not doing any more extras. No more "help" during my lunch, no more staying after school for free tutoring, no more answering emails outside of contract hours, no more treats bought with my own money, none of it. You've built your beds, parents, now lie in them. |
Anonymous
Katie B. Class of 1995, I’m looking at you. “Exactly” the person described above in bold. Her mom was a teacher and so she just set her sights on the same job, same town, same college, and now the same school system. True of a lot of teachers in my kids’ private school as well. Not an intellectual bone in her body. The only ambitious, smart teachers are the ones Who do it for two years through Americorp and then bail for law school. And those kids are NOT helping the system. |
Anonymous
Petulant. Are you mad that we expect a certain level of engagement and expertise from you? Do you realize that you are illustrating the whiny teacher stereotype perfectly? Now, you’ve added a punitive element to the mix. You sound like a petulant teenager. Ask them to do something, they do it poorly and half-assed, ask them to improve, cue pouting and bad attitude. |
Anonymous
Thank god Katie B has you to show her how the world should work... and thank god for americorp which ensures that teachers only stay in a school, for 2 years. You are sooooooo much better. Your world view is much better. -signed valedictorian Of high school class, full scholarship to college AND a teacher Class of 1995 |
Anonymous
+1 And on the flip side I saw lots of people quit TFA because it was too difficult. Yale grad- lasted one year, Stanford grad- lasted 6 months, UPenn grad- did the full two years but kids learned nothing because the behavior management was so terrible, etc. |
Anonymous
Yes, yes anytime a teacher complains about bashing they “illustrate the whiny teacher stereotype.” He is saying all the things he has done beyond his job description he will no longer do because it is clearly not well received. You seem to have the expectation that a “good teacher” deals in emotional currency (doing good to get only warm fuzzies in return) and shouldn’t expect that to translate to monetary value. Here is why you think that: “The status of a given career tends to correlate with the share of men in that profession—higher status equals more men, generally speaking. And that has its own consequence: Research has found that employers place less value on work done by women than on that done by men. These trends reinforce each other in perpetuity.“ https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/02/the-explosion-of-women-teachers/582622/ |