That apple is iconic but unreal. Might be toxic. Unfair advantage for the kid who can afford it. Unfair to other teachers and staff. Can’t get it past the bomb detector at the entry…
All of these are very real things for many in the profession. I would add, mindless bureaucratic initiatives that are oh, so important. At least until the next, often contradictory mindless bureaucratic initiative comes along. One of the main reasons I am not displeased to have retired.
Of course, there are (were) positives: seeing genuine learning occurring, passing along topic(s) that you deeply care about, a knowing smirk from a student who gets a bad pun you’ve told, seeing students succeed after they’ve left, the relationships with co-workers (sometimes even the same administrators with mindless bureaucratic initiatives), etc.
I don’t blame these teachers at all! I used to do school security under the NYPD and I used to see all the crap these teachers went through! Oh, and on that list on the blackboard it forgot to mention the learning curves the teachers have to deal with. It’s difficult especially in a high school when you have some students who are still on a junior high or even a grade school level! That’s because much of that is due to them being pushed through because they were such behavior problems that the teachers and principals just wanted to get them out of their school! Parents can definitely be a problem because if their child’s a PITA, often times they KNOW IT!! In one high school I worked in one time, cell phones were not allowed by the students in school. I would see parents come up to the school breathing fire ranting and raving about why their child’s phone was confiscated instead of being concerned about their child’s school work and classroom performance! So yes. I don’t blame some of these teachers one bit!
In the Oklahoma legislature right now is a bill that would not only prohibit teachers from teaching anything contrary to any students strongly held religious beliefs. The cheery on top would prevent any other group or person from helping to pay the fine that said students family could charge(and gets up to $10K)the teacher.
Oklahoma common education(K-12 public schools) have been in the bottom 10 states for many years. If this bill actually becomes law I would expect a mass exodus of remaining qualified teachers. So what is the reason behind bills like these in the red states? IMHO I believe that it is a visceral hatred of A-teachers unions and B-public(tax supported)schools, because teaching both History(not the homogenized version taught in religious charter schools) and Science(they teach GASP evolution rather than the “superior being aka ‘god’ made everything in the world” because the xristian book aka old testament tells me that ‘god’ created everything in just 6 days-and the world is only 5000 years old because the vast majority of xristians totally believe what their preacher aka con man tells them is in the bible, they haven’t actually read it themselves)so those same anarchists want to totally tear down the current US K-12 common education system-which was promulgated in the 19th century(when the US was mostly rural and school children were needed labor on family farms) and wasn’t updated to the 20th much less the 21st century. Which is why the US-which hasn’t been a mostly rural country for over 100 years-is not only not in the top 10 countries in any education category we are not even in the top 20-and replace it with religious schools(what they are really after is making their cult/sect the “official” state religion)Why you ask? Because their version of religion aka a sky father created everything is incompatible with actual provable truth and they want to keep the vast majority of Americans ignorant of everything but religion
Comic makes a lot of good points, but would have been more accurate if it ended with “We quit” and depicted an army of women walking out the door. 76% of the teachers in the U.S. are female.
Don’t forget the greatest benefit packages in the United States. Whine about take home pay, but don’t consider no payment for healthcare and a retirement package far exceeding Social Security or 401(k) plans. A teacher making $60K is equivalent to over $80K with benefits.
It is too bad politicians on both sides will not let education get back to the basics. CRT is indoctrination when most of the children do not read at a level to comprehend it (no state is over 50% in reading proficiency by 4th and 8th graders, Detroit only had 5% proficiency and Baltimore 10%). When all interpretation of information only comes from the teacher, it becomes indoctrination.
How about teaching children how to read and write and do basic math. Let indoctrination occur in college where they get to choose their courses. But of course, that is never going to happen with Weingarten in charge of the education system.
Darsan54 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Doing exactly what the conservatives want. Without education, they control the narrative. Just like Putin’s explanations of why he invaded Ukraine.
Concretionist almost 2 years ago
That apple is iconic but unreal. Might be toxic. Unfair advantage for the kid who can afford it. Unfair to other teachers and staff. Can’t get it past the bomb detector at the entry…
Havel almost 2 years ago
All of these are very real things for many in the profession. I would add, mindless bureaucratic initiatives that are oh, so important. At least until the next, often contradictory mindless bureaucratic initiative comes along. One of the main reasons I am not displeased to have retired.
Of course, there are (were) positives: seeing genuine learning occurring, passing along topic(s) that you deeply care about, a knowing smirk from a student who gets a bad pun you’ve told, seeing students succeed after they’ve left, the relationships with co-workers (sometimes even the same administrators with mindless bureaucratic initiatives), etc.tee929 almost 2 years ago
…as we transgress to 1984 (the book), idiots will rule.
RetVet24 almost 2 years ago
TFG said “I love the uneducated”. The Trumpli-Con party is happy to make that happen so they can use them for chattle.
djtenltd almost 2 years ago
I don’t blame these teachers at all! I used to do school security under the NYPD and I used to see all the crap these teachers went through! Oh, and on that list on the blackboard it forgot to mention the learning curves the teachers have to deal with. It’s difficult especially in a high school when you have some students who are still on a junior high or even a grade school level! That’s because much of that is due to them being pushed through because they were such behavior problems that the teachers and principals just wanted to get them out of their school! Parents can definitely be a problem because if their child’s a PITA, often times they KNOW IT!! In one high school I worked in one time, cell phones were not allowed by the students in school. I would see parents come up to the school breathing fire ranting and raving about why their child’s phone was confiscated instead of being concerned about their child’s school work and classroom performance! So yes. I don’t blame some of these teachers one bit!
timbob2313 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
In the Oklahoma legislature right now is a bill that would not only prohibit teachers from teaching anything contrary to any students strongly held religious beliefs. The cheery on top would prevent any other group or person from helping to pay the fine that said students family could charge(and gets up to $10K)the teacher.
Oklahoma common education(K-12 public schools) have been in the bottom 10 states for many years. If this bill actually becomes law I would expect a mass exodus of remaining qualified teachers. So what is the reason behind bills like these in the red states? IMHO I believe that it is a visceral hatred of A-teachers unions and B-public(tax supported)schools, because teaching both History(not the homogenized version taught in religious charter schools) and Science(they teach GASP evolution rather than the “superior being aka ‘god’ made everything in the world” because the xristian book aka old testament tells me that ‘god’ created everything in just 6 days-and the world is only 5000 years old because the vast majority of xristians totally believe what their preacher aka con man tells them is in the bible, they haven’t actually read it themselves)so those same anarchists want to totally tear down the current US K-12 common education system-which was promulgated in the 19th century(when the US was mostly rural and school children were needed labor on family farms) and wasn’t updated to the 20th much less the 21st century. Which is why the US-which hasn’t been a mostly rural country for over 100 years-is not only not in the top 10 countries in any education category we are not even in the top 20-and replace it with religious schools(what they are really after is making their cult/sect the “official” state religion)Why you ask? Because their version of religion aka a sky father created everything is incompatible with actual provable truth and they want to keep the vast majority of Americans ignorant of everything but religion
Rich Douglas almost 2 years ago
The roots of the Idiocracy.
AnnLeigh Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Comic makes a lot of good points, but would have been more accurate if it ended with “We quit” and depicted an army of women walking out the door. 76% of the teachers in the U.S. are female.
MuddyUSA Premium Member almost 2 years ago
All the points the Teachers Union pushes as an agenda. All lies!
LVObserver almost 2 years ago
Don’t forget the greatest benefit packages in the United States. Whine about take home pay, but don’t consider no payment for healthcare and a retirement package far exceeding Social Security or 401(k) plans. A teacher making $60K is equivalent to over $80K with benefits.
It is too bad politicians on both sides will not let education get back to the basics. CRT is indoctrination when most of the children do not read at a level to comprehend it (no state is over 50% in reading proficiency by 4th and 8th graders, Detroit only had 5% proficiency and Baltimore 10%). When all interpretation of information only comes from the teacher, it becomes indoctrination.
How about teaching children how to read and write and do basic math. Let indoctrination occur in college where they get to choose their courses. But of course, that is never going to happen with Weingarten in charge of the education system.