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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Do people think that PD days are days off for the teacher?
Professional Development. Depending on how strict administration is for each school, it's so the government can indoctrinate the teachers, so that they can later indoctrinate your kids. They have to be in the school or at a seminar, not skiing.
It inconvenienced me! Therefore I am enraged!
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The PD days always kind of bugged me that they we during the school year. What other industry does their professional development during the busy time? Do it in the off-season, you have a big one.
Where I live, the teachers now get a lot of these STIP days, which is every Thursday afternoon. It was sold as prep time. However, in my school, many of the teachers have taken part-time jobs in the day camps caring for the kids during these STIP days. This includes both of my kids' teachers. I tell my kids to bring their classwork and ask their teachers to review it with them versus just playing Uno or whatever they normally do in those camps.
My mom was a teacher and she complains about the decline of the profession. It used to be a profession with a lot of discretion, and expectation of the teacher. Now they are hourly workers who punch a clock and follow a script.