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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t actually matter what you think. My lessons and pedagogy have been published in national publications. I’ve received letters of commendation from my district. You don’t have any insight into what or how we teach, the progress our students make, the lengths we go to to help our students simply by reading posts on a message board, especially about a topic that has devolved this much. If you want to homeschool, do. It’s your prerogative. But maybe humble yourself a bit to realize that if you don’t teach, it is possible that there are aspects of what goes into that that you don’t fully understand. I’ve ridden on airplanes. I don’t presume to tell pilots how to fly planes simply because I’ve been a passenger. [/quote]

All fair points, until the rubber meets the road. If we are falling behind other countries your lessons and pedagogy published in national publications and commendations don’t amount to anything more than part of the problem. I know that may seem harsh, and we know it can’t be easy teaching, but you have to admit from unions to bad policy it’s all failing badly. [/quote]

My students have a 100% pass rate in my grade level SOL that I prepped them for. 100%. No matter what you want to believe, people you disagree with can still be good teachers. In fact, some of us are good teachers specifically because we don’t teach the way some people who aren’t in education and don’t work with kids believe we should.  [/quote]

The US SOLs pale in comparison to those of other developed nations. So your class had a 100% pass rate on an easy test. Yay!

In other countries, becoming a teacher is just as hard as becoming a doctor - and their students are smarter because of it.[/quote]

Yeah well in those countries people don’t talk to teachers like they’re boot lickers either. Look at the way all of you speak to ask about the very people you’re currently furious your kids aren’t spending 40 hours a week with. How is it possible people are screaming all at once MY KIDS NEED TO BE IN SCHOOL and ALL TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS SUCK. Which is it? I’m a moron who shouldn’t be allowed to teach kids or I’m the one person your kid needs to be with because being at home all day is bad for them? [/quote]

You wrote this at 4:11 am, which is probably why it makes no sense whatsoever, sweetie, but why in the world would you be up so late if you have to teach in the morning?

You might want to look up the definition of boot licker if you plan on keeping it in your vocabulary. [/quote]

I wasn’t up late, I was up early.

Preparing all my materials to teach all day. Answering emails. Making sure grades are up to date since the quarter ends next week. All those “outside contract hours” things were have to do for free to ensure your kids actually get an education.

You addresses nothing I said. If you think other counties have better teachers, consider how they also TREAT their teachers. Of course kids don’t want to grow up to be teachers anymore. They see how their parents trash and disparage and disrespect teachers all day long. Oh, but sure enough, despite believing we are all idiots who can barely function, you also believe your children are suffering by not being in the building with us 5 days a week right now. You can’t have it both ways. Either we are valuable to the extent your kids not being with us is bad, or we are useless idiots. [/quote]

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