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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and I told my DS that I would not finance his education to become a teacher.  I'm in my 5th year in a inner city school and they keep adding more and more work but cutting our planning time.  I am guaranteed 3 planning period per week of 45 mins.  This week, I had 3 meetings during those planning periods so I got no grading or planning done.  School ended 10 minutes ago and I will be here until at least 6:00 working.  I get here appr. 30 minutes early each day.  I can't get here any earlier b/c my child's before school program opens at 7am.  I am here until 5:30 every day and still have at least an hour of work to do at home every night.  I estimate I work 15-20 hrs each week beyond my contracted hours (more than that at the beginning of the year).  For this, I am paid in the mid $50,000s.  If I could afford to quit, I would.  [/quote]

What were your meetings about? Can teachers use their unions to advocate for less meetings?[/quote]

The absolute worst thing the gov could do is allow the free market economy to solve the problem and raise the salaries until more US citizens become teachers!

What we need to do is import cheap workers from India and China to work temporary teacher contracts for 3 years.   Yes increase the supply further and keep salaries low.[/quote]

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