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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]* the teachers in the video are going to be very sad once they start their new jobs and realize that all most all professionals jobs require you to work way beyond your job description! with additional hours non compensated especially when you are new, funding is always an issue and budgets get cut,

* class sizes were often bigger back in the previous decades. I went to Catholic school in the 80s. We had 34 kids per class, 2 classes per grade. Public schools in my fairfax county neighborhood did not have smaller class sizes.

* most teachers I have encountered suffer from a basic lack of understanding of how to use technology at all,or efficiently. They have difficulty use the data input systems, can't figure out how to run reports and on a more basic level many can't figure out their own classroom technology. My kids teacher said over and over that the laptops were "broken" bc they would not turn on. No they weren't broken. I pointed out that the battery was not charged so she needed to use it with the charger. Amazingly they turned on! She was truly amazed and she was really young so not an age thing. The laptops were on a charging cart which I pointed out May or may not get plugged in. The individual chargers were stored on a self on the cart.

- most teachers believe they need a ton of supplies. They don't. Neither do the kids. Reduce supply requests to what is actually used. [/quote]

Not one of my non teacher friends works more than 50 hours a week.  
Class sizes were bigger.  Differentiation didn't happen.  Kids either learned, or were lost.  Kids were hit if they misbehaved.  Kids with special needs were kept home or ignored.  Expectations were a LOT lower.  Kids didn't have to read in kindergarten or have to write fully formed 5 paragraph essays with text evidence in 2nd grade with virtually no help.
I purchase my own paint, glue sticks, an entire 1000 book classroom library ( you cannot run a classroom without one, btw), furniture (did you know you need shelves for books?), games, borders, paper, scissors, all my own office supplies, laminating film, laminator, paper cutter, 3 hole punch and far, far more.  I purchase ALL of my own science supplies.  I also purchase much of my own curriculum because my district doesn't have any.  I teach first grade and cannot run a classroom without those things.  I suppose I could just hand everyone a shit ton of worksheets and get a "needs improvement" on my eval and get fired at the end of the year, but, yeah, no.  Come to my classroom sometime and you can tell me what isn't actually used.  Seriously, please.  [/quote]

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