Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 07, 2012

Well… that’s interesting I guess.

It’s a good that that Alix doesn’t understand the implication of what she just said. It’s good that she can still be a child and see the world as “I get to have my favorite teacher!”

aye – spreading the word is she now!?!

Hell remember those non air conditioned additional built classrooms that were not part of the original school? that was the pain in the arse for all of us to have to go into and overcrowding but to have time shared teachers? that would suck.

I thought the kids took the school bus?

Better than nothing, I guess!

Actually she will teach an hour a day at each school and have to travel to get to the other jobs. I did that for awhile. You get about $150 per week from each school.

I was a time share teacher between two schools. I swapped each week. and then after school programs I hit 4 schools! yes, it is a challenge.

…and every time gas prices went up, you got a cut in pay! And it’s happening right now!!

Why are people surprised. Music and art teachers do this on a regular basis in most parts of the country. At least where they haven’t dropped them alltogether. I was laid off 3 years ago and still haven’t found an opening. Working in a daycare. :(

I bet each school has a full time administrator to manage the science teacher.

Ahh, this is why I use Private School.Public School has $11,000 a year per student in a 25 child class;Private School has $6000 a year per student in a 14 child class.I get better student/teacher ratio, closer interaction with the teacher and the teacher gets paid more.

Which should lead you to wonder where the $275,000 a year per class is going. You know the teacher is not getting a quarter million dollars a year, where is it going?

Oh, and my private school student gets things public school does not; like week long field trips; all the sports, all the extra curricluar activities and a closer knit school.

You can have it too if you can break the monoply of government controlled education and move to voucher or student focused funding. Hate to say it but like many European countries have.

Here my location teachers work full time during school year but substitute’s work art time when main teacher is gone.

I remember having a shared teacher in elementary school, back in the Middle Ages. She taught music in four different schools. I loved her.

My town has teachers that split their time between schools, but they don’t go one week at each school. The schools (which are usually the middle & high schools) just set the class periods up so that the shop teacher, the art teacher & I believe one other just go from one school to the other during the day. We even have one principal for 2 schools, the K-2 & the 3-5 elementary schools. I grew up in a city at least 10x the size of this town so it was a bit of a culture shock.

We had two teachers in high school that switched every other day to another high school. Both were Math teachers. One worked nights at a community college as well. (She was my best math teacher.)

How many are hedging their bets and giving to both sides? Rupert Murdoch gave money to Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2008, but that didn’t mean that he forgot his Republican friends. In fact, if I remember correctly, his Republican to Democratic giving ratio was about 10 to 1, as you suggest.

Did the school sit through an entire semenair and get a free boat?

Sad comment on the current affairs in our school district. Plenty of money for weird, self-serving crap, but not for education. We will learn that the eternal curse is living in a world that we’ve made “safe”.

Thank you, George W Bush.