I am wondering how we are going to get through these times without it?


Jonathan

Well for you people over 60, I don't know who the hell is going to pay the taxes that fund your social security ... maybe you old timers need to buy facebook stock on Friday and hope?

Jonathan

+1...

Thing is, now the teachers don't have TIME to teach the subject material anymore... between "mainstreaming" special-needs kids and forcing the teacher to modify their tests and materials for EVERY STUDENT listed as 'special needs' according to their "mods" to their "education plan" drawn up every year in meetings between the parents, counselor(s), principal(s), teacher(s), etc., and stupid stuff like "no child left behind" (no matter how stupid they are or how little they care about actually doing the work or trying to learn anything or actually pass), then you add on all this stupid "fad" stuff like "knowledge based education" and constant staff meetings and department meetings and looking at all the statistics and analysis and group therapy encounter sessions for the staff type crapola, then toss in the fact that the curriculum is now BASED on teaching the materials on the standardized tests instead of the basic tenets of the subject, and it's amazing that teachers manage to actually teach anything at all...

I know at one time I wanted to be a teacher-- now, after seeing the monkey show via my sister who's a band director, my BIL who's a social studies high school teacher and looking for a vice principal job which the school won't HIRE and PAY him to do, but simply calls him out of class to do FOR FREE whenever it's to their convenience, and my wife who's a high school English Pre-AP teacher, ESL, and reading teacher, I can safely say that *I* wouldn't put up with HALF the BS they do for DOUBLE the salary... it's FRIGGING REDICULOUS. Now, to top it all off, the State is going broke and cutting funding for schools, while still issuing plenty of mandates, and so the local schools are cutting staffing levels and not hiring to replace retirees or folks who leave... so the class size is going through the roof, and they've got EVERYBODY quaking in their boots for fear of losing their job, and really screwing them over dumping more stuff on them, and you don't DARE complain or you won't find your contract renewed... and with no other schools hiring either, if you get canned, you can forget getting a job in most cases...

Of course, in a few years, the good teachers will either retire or say "to h3ll with it" and get tired of taking it up the backside from the schools and get a better paying, less stressful job in other fields... THEN the States will be in panic mode because they can't get enough teachers, and be crying because the public education system has become more of a sewer than it is now... at least maybe then you can find a job with a district that will treat you better or have better pay...

Til then, bend over and grab your ankles!!!

Nope, I wouldn't be a teacher nowdays for 100K a year... no way...

later! OL JR

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Knowledge is power.

How do you take power from people? Answer: keep them dumb , fat and happy...

Dumb - National Education Association + American Federation of Teachers
Fat - Taco Bell, McDonald's, sugar in just about everything we ingest
Happy - American Idol, Glee, Late Night with <Insert Blank>, games on Facebook

Check, check, and check.

Jonathan

The Avengers movie


Bill

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I have said many times that these reality shows are proof of human de-evolution!

But, I noticed this trend a long time ago. In my home county, where people have no respect for anyone or anything wear camo (head to toe) to work, court, and church.

Which is why I call these new shows;
Dancing With The Tards, So You Think You're A Tard, America's Got Tards...
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Jonathan

He said county not country so I assume he lives in the US.

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