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Originally Posted by Antithesis
If teaching is such an easy job where you can be paid so well and get so much time off to screw around, not try your best, be lazy, not give a crap, and be disrespectful all while getting away with it due to a complete lack of accountability ... why aren't you a teacher?
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Wow. Easy tiger.
First of all, I never said teachers are "paid so well", not sure where that came from.
Second of all, my generalization was targetting the bad teachers. Those teachers that could care less because you pretty much have to be abusive to get fired. Now there's motivation! Why am I not a teacher? Because I didn't want to be part of a union for one, but for another I don't want to be lazy, not give a crap, and not try my best (the disrespectful part doesn't make sense in my rant last night so I'll leave that out).
Here's a concept, how about not having a union. That way the teachers that teach well and work hard get rewarded, and the lazy-not-give-a-crap teachers get laid off, like the rest of society. Once laid off, maybe these people will realise that putting in an effort does offer up internalized rewards and self fulfillment with the goal to being a better person and a better teacher and improving conditions.
You pretty much answered why I am not a teacher in your own post. There is no way you'll convince me that teachers are held accountable. To who? Angry parent/teacher interview parents?
Meanwhile lets let the union mentality permeate the brain, lets have strikes so kids can have no supervision nor learning for a couple months every 2 years because our collective bargaining agreements can't last longer than a one night stand. Beauty system. What's that? Your a good teacher? Well you get just as much as the brutal teacher. Where's your motivation?