Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish people would stop with the teacher bashing. Then people wonder why all the good ones end up leaving....

+100

If those gripers think they could do a better job for the same pay and benefits, I wish they would.

Such a bullshit answer. You don't spend individual time with each student, I've not seen any results of superior Instruction come home. The writing assignments are laughable. I can't imagine it would take any time to put a P or an A on every paper. There are maybe a handful of comments that come home every year on any assignment. Tests are few and far between and are not created by teachers. You probably spend more time at the copying machine than anything else, making copies of that horrible curriculum.

There were excellent teachers in my child's HGC, the rest have been mediocre and honestly overpaid for their level of performance.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do and can are different questions.

I am sorry my English is not good. I thought I can ask the question and this forum has been helpful for foreigners like me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a 40 hour work week if you divide my time evenly with all students each one gets 14 minutes (providing I don't eat, attend department/staff meetings or use the bathroom). In that time I need to do everything for that student: teach them the content, make their lessons, make their tests, grade their papers, attend their IEP meetings, meet with their counselors, co-plan with team members, adopt new materials, disaggregate data to inform instruction, etc. When you take into consideration all of the "back-end" stuff that takes place it takes it down to maybe 4 or 5 minutes per student. If each email takes 2-5 minutes it eats into my most limited of resources: time.

Of course I spend more time than this working because their are more needs than will fit into a 40 hour week, but their are not enough hours in the day to get everything done to high standards all the time. I'm not trying to justify it because I try really, really hard to get everything done to the best of my ability (like almost all of the teachers I know). The reality is that something has to give. And if something has to give it will never, ever be the well-being of my students or the teaching quality they receive.

Such a bullshit answer. You don't spend individual time with each student, I've not seen any results of superior Instruction come home. The writing assignments are laughable. I can't imagine it would take any time to put a P or an A on every paper. There are maybe a handful of comments that come home every year on any assignment. Tests are few and far between and are not created by teachers. You probably spend more time at the copying machine than anything else, making copies of that horrible curriculum.

There were excellent teachers in my child's HGC, the rest have been mediocre and honestly overpaid for their level of performance.

Anonymous wrote:
Such a bullshit answer. You don't spend individual time with each student, I've not seen any results of superior Instruction come home. The writing assignments are laughable. I can't imagine it would take any time to put a P or an A on every paper. There are maybe a handful of comments that come home every year on any assignment. Tests are few and far between and are not created by teachers. You probably spend more time at the copying machine than anything else, making copies of that horrible curriculum.

There were excellent teachers in my child's HGC, the rest have been mediocre and honestly overpaid for their level of performance.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a 40 hour work week if you divide my time evenly with all students each one gets 14 minutes (providing I don't eat, attend department/staff meetings or use the bathroom). In that time I need to do everything for that student: teach them the content, make their lessons, make their tests, grade their papers, attend their IEP meetings, meet with their counselors, co-plan with team members, adopt new materials, disaggregate data to inform instruction, etc. When you take into consideration all of the "back-end" stuff that takes place it takes it down to maybe 4 or 5 minutes per student. If each email takes 2-5 minutes it eats into my most limited of resources: time.

Of course I spend more time than this working because their are more needs than will fit into a 40 hour week, but their are not enough hours in the day to get everything done to high standards all the time. I'm not trying to justify it because I try really, really hard to get everything done to the best of my ability (like almost all of the teachers I know). The reality is that something has to give. And if something has to give it will never, ever be the well-being of my students or the teaching quality they receive.

Such a bullshit answer. You don't spend individual time with each student, I've not seen any results of superior Instruction come home. The writing assignments are laughable. I can't imagine it would take any time to put a P or an A on every paper. There are maybe a handful of comments that come home every year on any assignment. Tests are few and far between and are not created by teachers. You probably spend more time at the copying machine than anything else, making copies of that horrible curriculum.

There were excellent teachers in my child's HGC, the rest have been mediocre and honestly overpaid for their level of performance.

Anonymous wrote:I wish people would stop with the teacher bashing. Then people wonder why all the good ones end up leaving....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a 40 hour work week if you divide my time evenly with all students each one gets 14 minutes (providing I don't eat, attend department/staff meetings or use the bathroom). In that time I need to do everything for that student: teach them the content, make their lessons, make their tests, grade their papers, attend their IEP meetings, meet with their counselors, co-plan with team members, adopt new materials, disaggregate data to inform instruction, etc. When you take into consideration all of the "back-end" stuff that takes place it takes it down to maybe 4 or 5 minutes per student. If each email takes 2-5 minutes it eats into my most limited of resources: time.

Of course I spend more time than this working because their are more needs than will fit into a 40 hour week, but their are not enough hours in the day to get everything done to high standards all the time. I'm not trying to justify it because I try really, really hard to get everything done to the best of my ability (like almost all of the teachers I know). The reality is that something has to give. And if something has to give it will never, ever be the well-being of my students or the teaching quality they receive.

Such a bullshit answer. You don't spend individual time with each student, I've not seen any results of superior Instruction come home. The writing assignments are laughable. I can't imagine it would take any time to put a P or an A on every paper. There are maybe a handful of comments that come home every year on any assignment. Tests are few and far between and are not created by teachers. You probably spend more time at the copying machine than anything else, making copies of that horrible curriculum.

There were excellent teachers in my child's HGC, the rest have been mediocre and honestly overpaid for their level of performance.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a 40 hour work week if you divide my time evenly with all students each one gets 14 minutes (providing I don't eat, attend department/staff meetings or use the bathroom). In that time I need to do everything for that student: teach them the content, make their lessons, make their tests, grade their papers, attend their IEP meetings, meet with their counselors, co-plan with team members, adopt new materials, disaggregate data to inform instruction, etc. When you take into consideration all of the "back-end" stuff that takes place it takes it down to maybe 4 or 5 minutes per student. If each email takes 2-5 minutes it eats into my most limited of resources: time.

Of course I spend more time than this working because their are more needs than will fit into a 40 hour week, but their are not enough hours in the day to get everything done to high standards all the time. I'm not trying to justify it because I try really, really hard to get everything done to the best of my ability (like almost all of the teachers I know). The reality is that something has to give. And if something has to give it will never, ever be the well-being of my students or the teaching quality they receive.

Such a bullshit answer. You don't spend individual time with each student, I've not seen any results of superior Instruction come home. The writing assignments are laughable. I can't imagine it would take any time to put a P or an A on every paper. There are maybe a handful of comments that come home every year on any assignment. Tests are few and far between and are not created by teachers. You probably spend more time at the copying machine than anything else, making copies of that horrible curriculum.

There were excellent teachers in my child's HGC, the rest have been mediocre and honestly overpaid for their level of performance.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a 40 hour work week if you divide my time evenly with all students each one gets 14 minutes (providing I don't eat, attend department/staff meetings or use the bathroom). In that time I need to do everything for that student: teach them the content, make their lessons, make their tests, grade their papers, attend their IEP meetings, meet with their counselors, co-plan with team members, adopt new materials, disaggregate data to inform instruction, etc. When you take into consideration all of the "back-end" stuff that takes place it takes it down to maybe 4 or 5 minutes per student. If each email takes 2-5 minutes it eats into my most limited of resources: time.

Of course I spend more time than this working because their are more needs than will fit into a 40 hour week, but their are not enough hours in the day to get everything done to high standards all the time. I'm not trying to justify it because I try really, really hard to get everything done to the best of my ability (like almost all of the teachers I know). The reality is that something has to give. And if something has to give it will never, ever be the well-being of my students or the teaching quality they receive.

Such a bullshit answer. You don't spend individual time with each student, I've not seen any results of superior Instruction come home. The writing assignments are laughable. I can't imagine it would take any time to put a P or an A on every paper. There are maybe a handful of comments that come home every year on any assignment. Tests are few and far between and are not created by teachers. You probably spend more time at the copying machine than anything else, making copies of that horrible curriculum.

There were excellent teachers in my child's HGC, the rest have been mediocre and honestly overpaid for their level of performance.

That's a blanket generalization and deeply unfair to all the hard-working dedicated and effective teachers out there. Shame on you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a 40 hour work week if you divide my time evenly with all students each one gets 14 minutes (providing I don't eat, attend department/staff meetings or use the bathroom). In that time I need to do everything for that student: teach them the content, make their lessons, make their tests, grade their papers, attend their IEP meetings, meet with their counselors, co-plan with team members, adopt new materials, disaggregate data to inform instruction, etc. When you take into consideration all of the "back-end" stuff that takes place it takes it down to maybe 4 or 5 minutes per student. If each email takes 2-5 minutes it eats into my most limited of resources: time.

Of course I spend more time than this working because their are more needs than will fit into a 40 hour week, but their are not enough hours in the day to get everything done to high standards all the time. I'm not trying to justify it because I try really, really hard to get everything done to the best of my ability (like almost all of the teachers I know). The reality is that something has to give. And if something has to give it will never, ever be the well-being of my students or the teaching quality they receive.

Such a bullshit answer. You don't spend individual time with each student, I've not seen any results of superior Instruction come home. The writing assignments are laughable. I can't imagine it would take any time to put a P or an A on every paper. There are maybe a handful of comments that come home every year on any assignment. Tests are few and far between and are not created by teachers. You probably spend more time at the copying machine than anything else, making copies of that horrible curriculum.

There were excellent teachers in my child's HGC, the rest have been mediocre and honestly overpaid for their level of performance.

Anonymous wrote:In a 40 hour work week if you divide my time evenly with all students each one gets 14 minutes (providing I don't eat, attend department/staff meetings or use the bathroom). In that time I need to do everything for that student: teach them the content, make their lessons, make their tests, grade their papers, attend their IEP meetings, meet with their counselors, co-plan with team members, adopt new materials, disaggregate data to inform instruction, etc. When you take into consideration all of the "back-end" stuff that takes place it takes it down to maybe 4 or 5 minutes per student. If each email takes 2-5 minutes it eats into my most limited of resources: time.

Of course I spend more time than this working because their are more needs than will fit into a 40 hour week, but their are not enough hours in the day to get everything done to high standards all the time. I'm not trying to justify it because I try really, really hard to get everything done to the best of my ability (like almost all of the teachers I know). The reality is that something has to give. And if something has to give it will never, ever be the well-being of my students or the teaching quality they receive.

Anonymous wrote:Do and can are different questions.