languages (Teachers)

From: Mike Cheponis <mac_at_Wireless.Com>
Date: Fri Mar 10 15:01:21 2000

My wife's a teacher, and she, too, is waaaaay overworked and wayyyy underpaid.

Actually, Dick seems to be describing the life of a Silicon Valley engineer
these days.... ;-)

-Mike


On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Craig Smith wrote:

> Bravo Seth,
> Dick's comment just went too far. my neighbor is an Art teacher in a
> local High School and believe me---if she's not at work, she's either
> grading papers, planning next weeks work or staying after class to work
> with other kids. SOME are really dedicated to the profession!
>
> sjm wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:58:43AM -0700, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > > Another thing to keep in mind about these jobs is that not only is the
> > > summer vacation long, but there are plenty of days without kids in the
> > > building, when most teachers go skiing or golfing, or hot-tubbing, and the
> > > workday for most of them is less than 6 hours.
> > >
> > > Dick
> >
> > I think it's extremely unfair to label all teachers like this.
> > You make them sound lazy. I know only one highschool teacher today,
> > but I do know he works his ass off. He does NOT take the summer off,
> > he takes summer teaching contracts to make ends meet. After teaching
> > his classes he has, further courses of his own to attend, papers to
> > grade, lesson plans to work out, staff meetings, conference meetings,
> > parent-teacher meetings, and inbetween tons of shit none of us
> > would want to deal with dumped on him. Sometimes he doesn't get
> > home until 11:00 -- and neither do I, but at least I get paid for it.
> >
> > I attended public school between 1979 and 1992, in both California
> > and Connecticut. We moved around frequently, and I was in 8
> > different schools during that time. That's a lot of different school
> > systems, and a lot of different teachers. Yes, I had some that were
> > merely doing their job, not going the extra mile. And I think I
> > can probably put my finger on exactly one who I would honestly call
> > lazy (everybody has a teacher horror story to tell). But those who
> > stand out in my mind were the genuine heros. They were IN to what
> > they did. They LOVED the kids. They latched on to us and energized
> > us and really taught us. They made us solve problems, they made us
> > work together, they made us look forward to their classes every day.
> > They had a passion for what they did, and God bless them for it.
> >
> > I can't think of a more honorable profession.
> >
> > -Seth
>
Received on Fri Mar 10 2000 - 15:01:21 GMT