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Originally Posted by TurdFerguson
My wife is a public teacher (so i have a slanted view I'm sure) and honestly, I have no idea how the hell she does it. The public system and administration is a joke, riddled with authority stripping and incompetence promoting procedures and limitations. As with most strongly unionized professions, there seems to be a materiel amount of "legacy teachers" that, frankly, are not good at there job any more, no longer evolve as a professional and basically mail it in year-over-year (to be clear there are terrible teachers regardless of experience). My wife was working with a "team member" that was teaching a curriculum that was 6 years old! honestly, WTF. I'd love to see a system that helps to curb this. That said, teaching also has a ridiculous attrition rate in the first 5 years...making the standards higher, or more time consuming will surely only increase this.
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Is it higher than for other vocations? I don't know many people straight out of post-secondary school that get hired with one company and stay with them for the next 25 years. That figure is only alarming if it is materially higher than for other jobs. Without comparing it with the larger workforce, it means nothing.
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Originally Posted by TurdFerguson
Combine that with the general feeling amongst teachers that there are not enough resources, class sizes are way to big and overall expectations for "after-hours work" are too high and I expect the union to push back pretty hard on this, despite the well placed intent.
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Every job has expectations for after-hours work. Teachers seem to forget that their time spent teaching is only five hours in a day, leaving three hours a day to mark, prepare, etc. if they want to work just an eight-hour day. That's very manageable most days. Not to mention they only work 2/3s of a year, which is something else unique to teaching. In most professional jobs when you take a holiday work is piling up for you while you're away, or you are called while sick or on vacation for assistance (that can't
not happen if you are important). When teachers are on their ~100 days of holiday each year, no work is piling up and nobody is at work to call them. They are completely free. There is no better job in Canada.