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(4,631 posts)Including my favorite kind of people...teachers!
raccoon
(31,111 posts)roody
(10,849 posts)classroom for the next day. Weekends also.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)took me 4 hours. battled with the online system. We have old, slow computers with Win XP (actually I like the old XP instead of the evil Win 8.1) but XP doesn't easily support the software. It is supposed to sync with another system and it hasn't grrr!
I spend hours after school at home. I have a lot of paperwork for special ed. My hourly rate is realistically well below the minimum wage.
I forgot - teachers are the enemy of the right.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)Who teaches in SD. The state with the lowest teacher salary in the USA.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)She grades papers weekends and nights. And then she has to deal with her middle school students during the day. Teachers' salaries are not high enough to deal with all the stress. My daughter earned her master's degree last year, but it only upped her yearly salary by $3000.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)But, as I believe I can differentiate between the two using critical thinking skills is a testament to all teachers...
progressoid
(49,991 posts)And my brother. RIP.
Chipper Chat
(9,681 posts)Often I would wake up at 1am and find my uncle, a math teacher, still grading papers!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)the grade-4 teacher
wiggs
(7,814 posts)averages an hour or two each night afterwards and 6 to 8 hours on the weekend. doesn't include her attendance at school concerts, performances, sports events.....no one I know works harder.
High school art teacher.
shebornik
(127 posts)I wish all the parents out there Knew how much the majority of teachers give to their profession. Thanks for posting.
ANOIS
(112 posts)leftstreet
(36,109 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)Trailrider1951
(3,414 posts)They chose well.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Link Speed
(650 posts)Having never attended any school, my eyes were opened wide when my kids started school.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Thucydides
(212 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)I for one do not, and by the way I stay up ALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT
edited to add: YES I APPRECIATE TEACHERS
Thucydides
(212 posts)You just have your own curriculum!
irisblue
(32,982 posts)I have fur kids only. I know some where today a teacher is working on a science project that will grab 2/3/5/9 kids attention. one of those kids may become my moms doctor, may be the doctor who catches my nephew/niece when she is born, may be the doctor who helps me when I'm 83. I OWE the future the same chance I had.
hue
(4,949 posts)littlewolf
(3,813 posts)can not count the number of recitials, concerts, plays
and sporting events I go to with my wife, because "her" kids
are in it. she teaches 1st grade.
Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread, Scuba.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I agree with the OP. But someone, somewhere along the line, has decided we must denigrate our teachers, call them greedy and blame them for our educational shortcomings. This someone also wants to transform education into a for-profit enterprise.
If you believe you are exempt from this kind of slander and abuse because you are not a teacher, just wait. Today it is teachers and postal workers, tomorrow it is the rest of us.
Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me."