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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous](I would very strongly suspect that most of the white collar, six figure non-teachers posting negativity on this website during the day actually have bullshit jobs. I mean, how are you here?)[/quote]

Do you get that saying "teachers in DCPS are super well paid" is not the same as saying "teaching is a bullshit job and it's probably easier than what I do"?

Also, it depends on the teacher, honestly. My kid has had teachers in DCPS who were amazing, deserve double their paycheck, just absolutely phenomenal. I've also come across some real duds who should either be forced into retirement of fired, including a specials teacher who just showed the kids movies every single class for an entire year. I mean EVERY class. I just looked and that teacher took home 85k that year (we are no longer at that school). Making 85k to press play on a movie 6 times a day and hand out the occasional coloring page (and skip back to school night and every other school event -- I never once saw this teacher outside of school hours) is pretty bullshit.

Every industry has it's slackers.[/quote]

Well, yeah. My kids have definitely had some specials teachers who were totally phoning it in. They can also throw out random grades -- they are assessing kids on any kinds of standard.

I'm not misunderstanding the premise of this post, it just makes me furious to see people insult hard working teachers ("teaching seems boring"?) when they are sitting at home on their computer probably doing something completely useless.
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Saying "teaching seems boring" is not an insult to teachers. It's one person's opinion. You know what seems boring to me? Being a lawyer or accountant. Academic research. I think a lot of people would agree with me about those things. I also don't think lawyers, accountants, and academics lose sleep over the fact that I think their jobs are boring. It's just my opinion. Who cares.

You need a thicker skin. Also, it's 1:30pm on a Wednesday. Unless you're typing these responses with one hand while shoveling food in your mouth with the other and trying to set the classroom up for science before the kids get back from recess, you aren't teaching today. You're sitting at home or in your office on your computer, doing something less than useless -- posting on DCUM just like the rest of us.[/quote]

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