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Thu Apr-14-05 09:23 AM
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Seriously, don't. I'm not kidding. This is the worst fucking job ever. If you're already a teacher, let's get the fuck out of this business. It's so ridiculous. I have so much responsibility and I make $25,000/yr. GRRRRRRRRR!!!! :grr:
Sorry, I'm having a bad day with students.
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:23 AM
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1. Stop whining - go take it out on the kids! |
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:30 AM
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:24 AM
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2. Give them a pop test and get back at them |
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:30 AM
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8. I like that idea, too! :-) |
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:25 AM
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:( I'm actually considering it...
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:32 AM
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9. Don't let me turn you off from it. |
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Honestly, the job I had last year I loved. It was probably the best year of my life, because of my job. But I had to leave because my wife and I didn't want to live down there. Now, I'm stuck with the worst job I could've found. So, don't let this outburst turn you off from the profession. :-)
I teach physics, chemistry and 8th grade science.
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:25 AM
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I did it for 6 long years. Even less pay, and there is no reward in babysitting the willfully ignorant - and that's just the parents and administrators.
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:27 AM
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Edited on Thu Apr-14-05 09:28 AM by Richardo
Great line, ZombyWoof. :D
Two of my brothers are teachers - one at a private school in California and the other at a public middle school in Florida.
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:33 AM
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:25 AM
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5. Amen, bro. It's a noble profession |
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but I know your frustration. We have our big math test next week and we are all basket cases. What grade do you teach?
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:34 AM
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11. I teach 12, 11 and 8. |
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I teach high school physics, AP physics (both grade 12), local chemistry (11) and 8th grade science.
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:39 AM
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18. I had a friend who taught H.S. math... |
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He called it, "Math for the living dead."
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:40 AM
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:50 AM
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24. Hey, my Physics teacher was a miserable bastard too!! |
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Edited on Thu Apr-14-05 09:51 AM by Vash the Stampede
Mr. Rosen, is that you?!? :evilgrin:
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:56 AM
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25. Hey, my student last year LOVED me, and I loved them. It's not |
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my fault that my kids this year are annoying bastards. And they're lazy, so they're going to do poorly on the state test, which will make me look bad as a teacher. I had outstanding results last year, now this year will ruin it.
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Thu Apr-14-05 10:40 AM
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31. Did you ever see that e-mail that |
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was in circulation called, "No Dentist Left Behind," which pointed out how absurd NCLB is? The premise was that dentists' salaries are not based on the number of cavities they help prevent. Dental care begins at home, man. It was great.
I have a great class this year. They kicked major butt on the reading test and I'm hoping for similar results on the math test. However, this week some have been falling apart on me. One kid has been abandoned by his father as of a week ago. Another told his mom the other night that he has nightmares that he will not pass the math test, and this is a bright kid. Our scrotum-in-cheif has, as he did with the middle east, lobbed and hand grenade into the public education system with no plan on how to help the wounded.
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Thu Apr-14-05 11:01 AM
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35. I never saw that, but that's a very good point. |
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Thu Apr-14-05 10:04 AM
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My physics teacher was my favorite. Instead of just giving you equations, he started just about every new chapter with, "So, we have F=MA" and would extrapolate from there. Every new concept we learned where it came from, how it related to everything else, and how it fit into the real world.
A real class act.
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Thu Apr-14-05 10:10 AM
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It sounds like you had a good teacher. :-)
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:34 AM
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12. Teachers in LA start at about 40K |
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:35 AM
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14. Yeah, I'm in a private school that doesn't pay shit. I need to go back |
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to the public schools. I loved my job last year.
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Thu Apr-14-05 10:41 AM
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I'd have thought that, while the pay may be lacking, you would have lots of parental support and some bright kids. Or are they bright but just not motivated by the drudgery that school has become under NCLB (or do you even have to contend with that since you are private).
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Thu Apr-14-05 01:37 PM
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40. Yeah, we still contend with that, but that's not the thing. |
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These students are, for whatever reason, way less motivated and much more lazy than my public school students last year. :shrug:
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:35 AM
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13. Sadly teachers are underpaid everywhere |
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It is a shame. A good teacher will be remembered by their pupils for the rest of their lives. Anyone that can improve the lives of so many people should command a heftier salary than that :(
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:37 AM
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16. Last year, I loved my job. |
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I loved my kids and I loved my job. I got paid more, too, but it's mainly the kids that made me love it. Then I got married, and my wife and I wanted to live elsewhere, so I had to leave the job I loved. Now, I hate the job I'm stuck with. Way more work, way less pay, and worse kids that make it harder for me to succeed.
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:36 AM
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15. Your subject line makes me think 'more cowbell!' |
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All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind the sun or the rain (we can be like they are) Come on baby (don't be a teacher) Baby take my hand (don't be a teacher) We'll be able to fly (don't be a teacher) Baby I'm your man La-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la :D
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:38 AM
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17. LOL.... One can probably make a good parady out of that! n/t |
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:41 AM
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20. Yeah, DC area schools start at $35k and get steady raises. |
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I think you need to find a new school!
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:42 AM
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i was a freelance teaching artist at a magnet high school in hartford and have often considered taking the plunge and going public.
it's a tough gig, and your kids are lucky to have you, but do what you gotta do to stay sane.
:hug:
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:47 AM
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23. Thanks for the encouraging words! |
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:hug:
Are you still freelance teaching?
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Thu Apr-14-05 09:59 AM
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Edited on Thu Apr-14-05 10:00 AM by cassandra uprising
it wasn't enough money. i was offered a full time status for next fall, but my fiance and i are moving to new york. a part of me feels like, i wouldn't be a very good teacher without first having taken a full on stab of becoming a professional artist. i've seen a lot of teaching artists (especailly actor types like myself) get stuck teaching and not really doing much of anything else. also, if i took that full time gig, i probably would never leave connecticut.
edit; typos
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Thu Apr-14-05 10:02 AM
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27. Well, good luck with the art! |
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I've always wished I had artistic talent. I'm so math/science, but not creative abilities at all. But good luck with that! An artist in New York? Yeah, you sound like one "them libruls" to me. :-)
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Thu Apr-14-05 10:34 AM
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however, i think you should cut yourself some slack. there's plenty of art and creativity to be found in math and science. i'm also not a big fan of the concept of talent. sure folks have a natural disposition to certain types of learning, but the word talent lets people of the hook. i'm sure you work your butt off to be knowledgeable in your field as does any musician, artist or scientist.
i had a run in with a student from bennington college. she was a dancer who was also studying brain chemistry (neurology ?). she wanted to understand on a scientific level what she intrinsically understood as fact in her body. she wanted to map what happens to a human brain when a person goes into a trance through dancing.
stories like that give me hope. i was told by high school algebra teacher that i didn't have the aptitude for math and that i should taken a course that was fun.
it really f-ed with my already low self esteem. but by the time i put myself through community college, i took every algebra course i could. i was determined not to feel dumb because i wasn't a math person.
whew- thanks for indulging the rant.
and while i'm excited by moving to ny, and putting my money where my mouth is, i'm scared out of my mind.
at least i'll be in liberal-land :)
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Thu Apr-14-05 11:14 AM
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38. You make good points. |
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I can understand why you're scared, but like you said, as least your in liberal land! :-)
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Thu Apr-14-05 10:42 AM
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33. I gave it up after three years |
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The principal hated my guts and I never knew whether my tuba player was gonna be there or in jail for car theft. They never said anything about that in teacher's college.
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Thu Apr-14-05 11:02 AM
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36. LOL.. No, they don't talk about much in teacher's college, do they? n/t |
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Thu Apr-14-05 11:46 AM
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39. LOL Can't trust those tuba players: |
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Did he steal cars to transport tuba? Were his intentions at least good?
Three years is the average time a Texas teacher teaches before moving on. Incredibly sad. As a youngster I had teachers that had been at it for the long run. Dedication counts for so much. Thanks for trying, anyway.
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Thu Apr-14-05 10:44 AM
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34. Get a job in a wealthy suburban district, or a big city with state aid |
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Detroit teachers start out at about $40,000, and only go up from there. They are unfortunately laying a bunch off right now (the Bush economy).
Suburban Detroit districts pay similarly. Some pay extremely well, like Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills or the Grosse Points.
Michigan in general pays teachers pretty well, unless it is a rural community like northern Michigan or the UP.
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Thu Apr-14-05 11:03 AM
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37. Yeah, I've been trying to. |
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I had a job last year that payed pretty well, but I had to leave it because my wife and I wanted to live elsewhere. Now I'm stuck with this.
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