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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This generation of teachers is the most under-worked and over-entitled ever.

In the 1970s my mother would carry bags of books home with her every single night and sit up grading her HS kids French homework, putting in corrections and encouragement and grades. Every single night.

Homework just doesn't exist on that level any more. You'r'e lucky if the teacher checks its been done, but they don't engage with it at all. [/quote]

I do this. Every single night. I work every Saturday. Every Sunday. I am comfortable estimating I work 70 hours at least one week a month and never under 60. My coworkers are quitting because of the workload and I’m seriously considering it.

I’m underworked and over-entitled?[/quote]

You teach Elementary. there is a world of difference between Elementary and High School in terms of workload and rigor. You are basically spending your weekend putting smiley faces on bad pictures. [/quote]

Now this right here is a troll. I'd encourage others to ignore going forward[/quote]

No. What I am is a critic. I am the original poster of the mother who was a teacher in the 70s who bust a nut every night for her HS students. I'm also a parent of 2 kids in the US education system and [b]I've met exactly 1 excellent teacher in their ES experience and 0 in their MS experience and probably 2 maybe 3 excellent teachers in their HS experience.[/b] The rest have been bottom-feeders, bottom feeders who are uninspiring and entitled, who think staying after school for 30 mins is a HUGE impingement on their lives, who literally don't give a F about the individuals in their class. [/quote]

Who in their right mind would become a teacher these days?  Nothing but contempt from parents, orders from the school system, all for low pay and high stress.  In the past, it was a women's job, because women couldn't become rocket scientists,  computer programmers, politicians, etc.  Now they can.  The best and the brightest are NOT going into education[/quote]

That is correct, the bottom 20% are going into education thinking it is going to be an easy ride.[/quote]

What a total load of BS that is. Anyone with a degree or who knows a current teacher can tell you how hard it is.[/quote]

Are you talking about how hard an M.Ed is? Because I have gone through that program at a decent public university, and uh...yeah. My colleagues were decidedly not geniuses, and the coursework was not terribly challenging.[/quote]

But all the students in an M.Ed program have already taken their undergraduate majors in their subjects. And you have people coming from all different qualities of undergrad institutions to take their M.Ed.  The M.Ed is a fairly generic introduction to pedagogy, principles and research on learning, child development etc.  But it's not going to be as challenging of course content as your undergraduate major in a discipline as it has to be fairly generic professional preparation for people from a wide range of backgrounds. However learning to enact it well in the classroom is much harder.[b] I don't think this speaks to the broader quality of students that go into education.  I think you still get plenty of top arts and humanities students going into teaching fields because there aren't that many options out there.  [/b] [/quote]

I do.  50+ years ago, smart women who were shut out of most professions became teachers and nurses.  Smart women are no longer so restricted and have lots of options including law school, business school, and other professional and graduate programs.  They can become psychologists, consultants, businesspeople, doctors, lawyers, the list goes on.

As a result, those at the bottom of the class become teachers.[/quote]

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