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Originally Posted by Sample00
I probably shouldnt wade into this discussion but something is definately pulling me in...ugh...
just a couple of comments...
A) if you arent a teacher or you arent married/live with a teacher, you really have no idea of the work they do and the time they put in. Before I met my wife, I had the impression of most of the discussion, "what a great gig, easy hours, lots of vacation time, indoors...easy stuff". After I met my wife...holy crap, lots of hours, lots of planning, holidays - yes but some time are spent planning, marking, professional development, de-stressing". (And a side bar - when my wife was teaching, she taught Junior high/middle school. She's now in management and the hours and work load are incredibly insane)
B) there are definately good teachers and there are definately bad teacher. I am all for it..the bad teachers need to be held accountable and turfed if they dont improve. They are playing with our kids education and that responsibility should NEVER be taken lightly.
C) most teachers would agree that salaries are ok but lessen the class sizes. Its incredibly hard to teach to over 30+ kids and be effective and get all of them.
D) my wife had me come in and teach a class on banking/finance a number of years ago. After about an hour, I was ready to (figuratively speaking) kill the little #######s. How she did that for 25 years, I'll never know. Respect!
E) The one thing I would ask is that the pay grade system is equal across the province for teachers. Each school board has their own contract system with the government. That needs to change. One province, one contract for all teachers.
F) want to save some money??? get rid of all the different school boards. Have an advisory council made up of the public and private sector and that board gets to negotiate with the ATA and government. 50+ school boards with trustees that are elected and get paid a fair sum....that needs to be eliminated. That would save the education system a large amount of money.
Thats all I have..
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I get what you are saying, but this entire thread is premised on a survey of teachers and what they themselves say they work in an average week.
So it's kind of hard to hide behind the whole "but they work so many hours that no one knows about" argument when it is they themselves who are telling us what the real numbers are.
Im sorry...48 hours a week is not a lot nor would i consider it a huge deviation from a whole lot of other professions.