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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, 12:55, that was badly written. It's hard not to get lost in a jumble of "I don't get no respect" and "you can't do what I do" and "I'm laughing at those Anacostia teachers who try harder than I do" and "those durn demographic changes are ruining my school." Sounds like you need to leave teaching, or at least teach in a private school.

Let's try to pick out the salient points, if that's even possible.

Really? You'd tell your kids not to go into teaching because their future school district might not be able to afford promethean boards or pencils? Problem solved: you just keep "laughing at" those altruistic suckers teaching in Anacostia and you take your entitled butt over to a school in Bethesda or a private school.

Really, you think those dang "demographics" are ruining your precious school? Problem solved: ditch those undeserving immigrants and poor kids and teach in Bethesda or a private school.

Really, you've convinced yourself that every parent and taxpayer out there agrees 100% that you should be paid pennies because they could do your job? Wrong, wrong, wrong. Lots of us support higher wages for teachers. And you think you don't get no respect? Join the federal government and everyone will love you, ha ha ha.  No really, abuse is part of many job descriptions -- teachers don't have a monopoly on abuse from clients.[/quote]

Then encourage YOUR child to enter the profession and see how you feel when you suddenly start to notice how the profession is viewed in a negative way.  It's as simple as reading status updates on FB.  I've had friends post items in support of teachers, and suddenly there's a backlash from "friends" who are police or firefighters or parents who send their children to private schools.

And I never said demographics are ruining a school. But the fact is that when you have high levels of poverty, as a teacher, you face transience, low reading levels, abuse, drug use, and a graduate rate that's unacceptable by county standards.  Do we push these problems aside, ignore these children and move on?  Or do we face the ugly truth that THIS IS REALITY in many schools?  And to be a martyr does no one any good.  Martyrs burn out, and soon you have a revolving door of teachers. They come in idealistic, give up their lives and their health for a failing system, finally see the light and leave.  So unless we - as a society - change how we view teaching, it will only get worse.

You don't get it, and neither do the others on this board who claim to be educated.

The gap between the haves and have nots is only getting wider.

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