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Originally Posted by bcb
I am also a first year teacher and can tell you a couple of things I've learned:
1.) The 1/3 of Alberta teachers leaving the profession within the first five years were not simply "bored".
2.) The time the teacher physically leaves the building is not proportional to how good a teacher he or she is.
3.) In order to get tenure (that's a nasty word, isn't it!), the majority of teachers will have to sub, take temp contracts, go through 1 full probationary year, then get tenure. This generally involves a minimum of 4 classroom evaluations by an administrator
4.) A tenured teacher can be fired for incompetence or misconduct. Does it happen everyday? No. Like most other professions, teachers (who haven't committed an egregious act of misconduct), will work with administrators to improve their performance before they are simply fired.
5.) Lets suppose 5% of teachers in any given school board are incompetent: Do you actually believe that in any given large corporation downtown, there aren't 5% of employees slacking off/leaving early/ taking advantage of benefits, etc?
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Obviously as I have posted different opinions on many of the points above I disagree with a lot posted, particularly the reason why teachers leave and how "difficult" it is to get a permanent contract.
I also don't get the "teachers are as lazy as private workers" as though that is some sort of good thing.
Teachers getting fired is nowhere near to most other professions as well. Perhaps it is similar to other union jobs but no way is it close to a non-union private sector position.
And of course the time a teacher physically leaves the building has no relation to the amount of work they actually could do. Is there someone arguing against that?
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It is my belief that people who are most critical of teachers could never stomach an authority figure presiding over their lives 200 days a year. (They also probably never got along with their parents much either).
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That must be it!
Sounds like the type of reasoning that DESS would come up with!