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Originally Posted by peter12
I do think that stereotypes towards teachers are pretty silly. However, my main complaint is the complete lack of meritocracy in the public school system. Even academia has the tenure process and different ranks of professorships (is that even a word) available for profs who get good teacher rankings and who publish frequently.
Why can't bad teachers be weeded out and good teachers be rewarded? I agree that there are quite a few good teachers, but I think there are alot of mediocre/terrible teachers who get into it because it is an easy job to slack off at when you want to. I have no doubt that everyone hear who has a story of a friend or relative who is a teacher that works their butt off and gets nothing extra for it is absolutely on the money. Those teachers are overworked and don't get any extra hand-up, but I can tell from personal experience that for everyone of those teachers there is another slacker who gets paid the same and gets the same vacation time.
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Well, yeah, it's sort of a union, right? That's kind of the big thing with them. I've seen this in any union, public sector, private sector, whatever. This is not special for teachers.