I am a teacher as well. Any group of a few million employees is going to have plenty shitty people. The problem is that the pay system in public schools encourages teachers to be shitty employees. You don’t get paid more for good work and you don’t get paid less for poor work. There is no incentive to do better. There is only incentive to do the least amount of work possible. Mediocrity is inevitable in any system like that.
My wife is a public HS teacher in Texas.. She teaches advanced math, dual credit courses. She has had to do separate curriculum for in person students as well as videos for kids who haven't come back. She has worked crazy hours trying to keep up.
You pedes don't know me but I've been involved in far right political groups since before most of you knew which way was up, I was physically fighting Antifa and ARA from about 1989 or 1990 on. PERSEC prevents me from saying too much, but old school patriots from Central TX might know me.
Don't lump all teachers in the same group. My wife doesn't have to push their propaganda because pre-algebra 2 AP, Algebra 2, Calculus, Trig are absolute sciences free of politics. Don't shit on the sane teachers who are on our side. They are a quiet minority trying to prepare American kids to carry on American Greatness, not brainwashing them with leftist bullshit.
I'm sure there will be comments about not going full MAGA on classrooms, but would you rather see ALL teachers be leftist scum, or see people on our side subtly teach "our kids", the smart ones, with a wink and a nod that they understand.
Yeah, try being a dude and having anything even remotely close to working with kids (besides pediatrician, I suppose) - you're automatically assumed to be a pedo/predator.
Off the bat it's massively skewed towards "no men." Because of low pay and God-awful working conditions, most anyone with the ability to do something else will end up going to the best school systems/non-public schools, or, when those are full, doing something else.
You end up with a bunch of low-tier trash populating the ranks of the teaching class and then promulgating their awful vices from there. Yes, there are some good teachers; I remember plenty that weren't bad at all and many that were excellent. However, there are many more that are useless and even more that are making children's lives worse just by existing and "teaching."
It doesn't "select" anyone. Anyone that can get through college can easily find a teaching job. In fact, because male teachers are so rare, male teachers are in high demand.
Unfortunately, it is our culture that has, for some reason, deemed teaching to be a woman's job. I am a male teacher and it is a profession that desperately needs more men.
Comes down to character. I never did shitty work just because the pay was low. You are educating children afterall... not just stocking store shelves or putting gas in tanks.
Pay was low? 92k for science teacher with 7 years experience with a 80% pension after 30 years for what is pretty close to a part time job is low?
Count up hours worked by a teacher compared to someone in same salary bracket in private industry and you’ll see teachers put in somewhere around 40% fewer hours per year on average
...except the pay is extremely high for teachers with only a 4 year degree. In my county $55K right out of college and 3 months total paid time off, healthcare, and tenure.
That is what keeps me going. But I know so many teachers that try really hard at first, but then realize that their effort is not going to be rewarded. Eventually they just stop caring about going the extra mile.
Thanks for what you do.
I know that, like cops, many / most are good people, but;
a) The ones at the top are pretty much always total scum
b) Our systems are very, very broken and abused by communists.
It’s not that the pay isn’t great. It’s that the pay doesn’t go up or down based on performance like any other job. It’s a socialist system and gets socialist results.
I am a teacher as well. Any group of a few million employees is going to have plenty shitty people. The problem is that the pay system in public schools encourages teachers to be shitty employees. You don’t get paid more for good work and you don’t get paid less for poor work. There is no incentive to do better. There is only incentive to do the least amount of work possible. Mediocrity is inevitable in any system like that.
P.S.: Great username. DUCKS FLY TOGETHER
Same. I’m a HS teacher. I share so little in common with these lazy, ideologically-possessed whiners.
My wife is a public HS teacher in Texas.. She teaches advanced math, dual credit courses. She has had to do separate curriculum for in person students as well as videos for kids who haven't come back. She has worked crazy hours trying to keep up.
You pedes don't know me but I've been involved in far right political groups since before most of you knew which way was up, I was physically fighting Antifa and ARA from about 1989 or 1990 on. PERSEC prevents me from saying too much, but old school patriots from Central TX might know me.
Don't lump all teachers in the same group. My wife doesn't have to push their propaganda because pre-algebra 2 AP, Algebra 2, Calculus, Trig are absolute sciences free of politics. Don't shit on the sane teachers who are on our side. They are a quiet minority trying to prepare American kids to carry on American Greatness, not brainwashing them with leftist bullshit.
I'm sure there will be comments about not going full MAGA on classrooms, but would you rather see ALL teachers be leftist scum, or see people on our side subtly teach "our kids", the smart ones, with a wink and a nod that they understand.
It also currently HEAVILY selects for young women, where as in the past it was much more diverse.
Yeah, try being a dude and having anything even remotely close to working with kids (besides pediatrician, I suppose) - you're automatically assumed to be a pedo/predator.
Off the bat it's massively skewed towards "no men." Because of low pay and God-awful working conditions, most anyone with the ability to do something else will end up going to the best school systems/non-public schools, or, when those are full, doing something else.
You end up with a bunch of low-tier trash populating the ranks of the teaching class and then promulgating their awful vices from there. Yes, there are some good teachers; I remember plenty that weren't bad at all and many that were excellent. However, there are many more that are useless and even more that are making children's lives worse just by existing and "teaching."
It doesn't "select" anyone. Anyone that can get through college can easily find a teaching job. In fact, because male teachers are so rare, male teachers are in high demand.
Unfortunately, it is our culture that has, for some reason, deemed teaching to be a woman's job. I am a male teacher and it is a profession that desperately needs more men.
Comes down to character. I never did shitty work just because the pay was low. You are educating children afterall... not just stocking store shelves or putting gas in tanks.
Pay was low? 92k for science teacher with 7 years experience with a 80% pension after 30 years for what is pretty close to a part time job is low?
Count up hours worked by a teacher compared to someone in same salary bracket in private industry and you’ll see teachers put in somewhere around 40% fewer hours per year on average
...except the pay is extremely high for teachers with only a 4 year degree. In my county $55K right out of college and 3 months total paid time off, healthcare, and tenure.
That is what keeps me going. But I know so many teachers that try really hard at first, but then realize that their effort is not going to be rewarded. Eventually they just stop caring about going the extra mile.
Thanks for what you do. I know that, like cops, many / most are good people, but; a) The ones at the top are pretty much always total scum b) Our systems are very, very broken and abused by communists.
It’s not that the pay isn’t great. It’s that the pay doesn’t go up or down based on performance like any other job. It’s a socialist system and gets socialist results.