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Originally Posted by kermitology
In three years as an engineer, I am making approximately what my mother, a PhD teaching English in the CBE took 35 years to make.
She just recently retired. I can't believe some of the statements being made here. I can personally attest to seeing my mother getting home at 5, making supper, and then marking until 9 when she went to bed.
Spring break, she was marking and doing report cards. Continual education, lesson planning, UNDERSTANDING your material so you can teach it to others.. Teachers get a raw deal. If I had to deal with 35 high-school aged kids for 6-8 hours a day I'd go mental.
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Totally agree...I think teachers get an incredibly raw deal. Partly because I believe that their jobs are my own personal hell, and furthermore, after living in that hell for years and years on end they get zero credit for doing it.
Its like when a guy gets wrongfully imprisoned for 30 years and then when he gets out society kind of pats him on the back, says they're sorry and gives him some sort of book deal or puts him on the talk show circuit.
Teachers get kicked in the nuts, they do their time and then when they get out society goes up to them and says: hey, whats your damn problem?
I deal with 15 high school/jr high aged kids for 3 hours a week and I am slowly going mental. If you locked me in a room with them for 6-8 hours even once I'd probably come out carrying a knife and soaking in blood.
Kids, teenagers in particular, are a wildly irrational bunch, they make foolish choices that endanger themselves and everyone around them and they dont particularly care. They have eyes like sharks that show no remorse for their actions, they're like animals. They are menaces to society at large and should be quarantined in some sort of prison-like facility until they've matured to the point where they are no longer harmful to those around them.
Oh wait. They are quarantined in prison-like facilities until they're mature enough not to stick forks in their own eyes. They're called schools, and the hardened, grizzled wardens charged with the care of these violent, psychotic criminals-in-waiting are fresh-faced young adults who have just graduated from college a couple years ago with a degree and a Bachelors of Education.
They get no billy clubs or pepper spray, not even a little taser, nothing. They're given a bunch of textbooks and, if they're one of the lucky ones, a ruler, and they're expected to tame this wild group.
Also, Ann Coulter on teachers? I wont believe it until I see a picture of Ann Coulter riding a teacher.
That joke at the end doesnt jive with the rest of my post, but its what I originally ventured in here to post and then I got carried away with my rant. Make no mistake, I hated most of my teachers, and I strongly dislike most of my profs, but that doesnt mean you cant respect the work they do.