Posted by MuchInLuvMichi
that staTement is insane...hmm cops..doctors..firefighters...ALL HARD JOBS!!! AND IT DOESNT END THERE!!!! any1 who remotely wakes up in the morning and busts there a** all day to bring home $$ to put food on the table has a hard job! dont whine and complain when you have off for 2 summer monthes...3 seperate vacation weeks..and get out at 3:00 everday!!!!!!!! obviously the take home work that u MAY have makes up for the fact that most pple work almost every month from 9-5 WITH ONLY 2 weeks vaca!!!! I think 'teachers' need to get off their high horse,
OK I will be responding to a lot of this but this has to be the most ignorant statement I have EVER read!
1) You work 9-5 I work 7-3 so the hours are different HOW?
2) Do you get a lunch? I don't on most days, if I do it usually some how involves students!
3) Can you go to the bathroom whenever you want?
4) How many ADDITIONAL hours are you REQUIRED to work UNPAID! I am not talking about take homework but hours that are MANDATORY that you must be there but yet are not paid- We do this is called Staff Developement- this is not meetings, this is someone non teachers' latest idea on how to fix the broken wheel!
5) How many supplies do you have to buy for your cubicle?
6) What do you think you would be like if it weren't for your teachers?
7) Do you ever think that teachers complain most because we are the punching bags of many!
8) If you were threatened or attacked in your office and your HR said to you, sorry you do not have any rights because the person that attacked you has 'special needs' and is protected under the Americans with Disabilities Attack and since he/she has an impairment and couldn't understand why punching was wrong, there's nothing you can do, how would you feel?
9) How would you feel if you see a child heading down the wrong directions and you called the parents to express your concerns and you hear the 'Not my child' speech
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Or here's another good one- You call a parent to tell them that their child is in danger of failing and isn't doing their homework and the parents response is, 'well I don't call you when she doesn't make her bed, don't call me when she doesn't do her homework'.
Or It's not that my child isn't gifted, it's that you are not smart enough to teach the gifted class?
Or the all time classic, well I was pregnant with him while I was getting my masters, so through osmosis he is naturally brilliant, you are just not challenging him enough
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(Keeping in mind that this is the 6th school that isn't 'challenging' him enough
10) Do you have co workers that can get in your face, say whatever they want to YOU with VERY little consequences, but yet you cannot say anything back?
11) As for our 2 months in the summer and 3 weeks of vacation,
1) I have not had a summer off yet- masters are required for teaching, curriculums must be made, courses need to be redefined and inservice can happen!
2) The other 'weeks off' are not by my choice! My husband can't get the same weeks off, we can't go on vacation together unless it's in the summer. But if you wanted to go on vacation January 17- whatever you can- we can't!
12) How would you feel when you see your bosses make decisions about something they have NO TRAINING in that will cause your kids stress and aggravation? But you the 'professional', who has been trained in this area, your opinion doesn't count for ANYTHING!
13) That you are always the scapegoat for everything that goes wrong! It's never the administration or lack of parental support, or funding!
I have been a teaching for almost 10 years. I love my job day in and day out. Do I get frustrated HELL YES!!!!!! Would I ever go back to the business world, NOPE! Does that mean that dealing with the crap that we have to deal with and the LACK OF RESPECT is easy NOPE!
For ANY OF YOU that think teaching is a joke or do not understand what it is like to be a teacher, FM me and I will be more than happy to have you shadow me for 1 week in my classroom. Believe me, if you shadow a teacher your opinions will change.
My SIL was the most Anti- teacher person, ah they are over paid, have all these vacations do nothing all day kind of person until she started working as a TA in a school. So ANYONE want to take me up on my offer? Bet you not!
