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Post by ironbite on Oct 28, 2011 12:41:20 GMT -5
An hour I'd say.
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Post by lighthorseman on Oct 28, 2011 13:08:44 GMT -5
Um....I've been teaching for decades. It's not a "cushy job" with 4 months off a year. It's being in charge, on your own, of 25-40 children all with different skill levels, abilities, aptitudes, and preparation and being expected to teach them all effectively at the same time in the same room with too few resources and not enough time. It's being expected to be 50% parent, 50% instructor, 50% bookkeeper, 50% drill sergeant, and 50% diplomat simultaneously. It's trying to handle the bullying of the kid who thinks he might be gay, the bullying of the Muslim kid, the bullying of the smart kid, the bullying of the short kid, the fat kid, the kid with body odor. The kid with braces, the kid with old clothes, the kid with a new haircut, new glasses, new address, and to do that while also trying to get a room full of bored kids to see that Mark Twain matters, that being able to isolate a variable is useful, that what happened 250 or 1000 years ago is important and relevant to them today. Teaching is not just explaining things to kids. That's like, 2% of the job tops. You, sir, could not do my job if your life depended on it. Your little "notice" up there (which you made much more difficult to read by using too small of a font and neglecting to indent or separate your paragraphs for ease of reading....things that any teacher could have told you had you bothered to pay attention to them when you had the chance, you arrogant fuck), well, your little "notice" proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that you lack the temperament to ever even think of taking my job away from me. Oh, and I work 10 hours a day at my job. My day does not begin at 9, nor does it end at 3. No one makes 5 grand a year to "hit grounders" at high schoolers. Coaching a baseball team is a LOT of work. I know. I do it. And I don't get paid extra to do it. Since you assholes cut taxes, the schools got screwed and no one can afford to really pay coaches anymore. I do it because I love my kids. You would only do it because you love money, and when you realized how much work was involved, you would quit. We take the summers off because if we didn't we and the kids would break down from exhaustion by the second year. Teaching exhausts you, mentally, physically, and emotionally. if it doesn't, you're in the wrong profession. So kindly pull your head out of your ass before you start threatening me with your Randian bullshit. My job would eat you alive. This. I have a 30hr/wk full-time teaching job at a 2-year college. When I first got the job, I laughed at the idea that anyone could consider 30 hours "full time." I'm not laughing anymore. It really does drain you, especially because, once you're done with the actual classroom bit, you still have papers to grade, lesson plans to revise, new versions of tests to write, 50 different kinds of paperwork to file, and at my school, tutoring to do. All that, plus the classroom teaching scenario Sandman described, in 30 hours. PLUS, the guilt over that one kid that you just can't seem to reach. It takes serious physical stamina and mental fortitude to teach at ANY level. This moron wouldn't last a week. All teachers are worthy of respect (and much better pay) but its primary school and early education teachers I look at and go... "how?"
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Post by priestling on Oct 28, 2011 13:08:48 GMT -5
As the son of a teacher, I've seen the work dad put into his job, and yeah, he relished the weekends and summer... he was so GLAD for the breather... He only just retired a year or two ago after 30 years of teaching.
"So, dad, what are you most glad to be leaving behind? the kids?" "Fuck no, the PARENTS are the worst!"
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Post by scienceisgreen on Oct 28, 2011 16:06:11 GMT -5
As the son of a teacher, I've seen the work dad put into his job, and yeah, he relished the weekends and summer... he was so GLAD for the breather... He only just retired a year or two ago after 30 years of teaching. "So, dad, what are you most glad to be leaving behind? the kids?" "Fuck no, the PARENTS are the worst!" Teachers for the most part are hard working folks who keep working long after the school day has ended- but so many idiots think they do absolutely nothing outside of when their kid is there.
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Post by priestling on Oct 28, 2011 17:49:49 GMT -5
I helped Dad with the sports crews in high school. Ran chains for the football games in the fall, helped with track and baseball in the spring. I can't fault him for falling into bed some nights.
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Post by Hyperio on Oct 28, 2011 17:59:04 GMT -5
Teaching from my experience is a *very* hard work, requiring a wide range of skills, of which actually knowing the subject often isn't the most important one (though it's necessary). The sandman is correct.
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Post by ironbite on Oct 28, 2011 18:07:24 GMT -5
Ironbite-just something humorous I wanted to share
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Post by priestling on Oct 28, 2011 18:09:31 GMT -5
Okay, I know Will Smith is actually supposed to be one badass dad, but that's still pretty funny. Well found, Ibby.
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Post by id82 on Oct 28, 2011 19:26:22 GMT -5
That's actually not Will Smith.
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Post by ironbite on Oct 28, 2011 19:33:48 GMT -5
Don't care.
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Post by worlder on Oct 28, 2011 19:47:36 GMT -5
"This looks shopped.
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time."
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Oct 28, 2011 21:23:46 GMT -5
I read that whole essay & what I got out of it was that he was a greedy, stupid fuck who made all of his money off of the lower classes, did nothing for them, whines about his hilariously white guy problems (can't get up to pee!), & couldn't be self-sufficient if he tried.
I don't know how he ended up looking at his life & concluding the exact opposite.
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Oct 28, 2011 22:13:33 GMT -5
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Post by Thejebusfire on Oct 28, 2011 22:37:03 GMT -5
Go ahead and destory "Joe Mainstreet" mr. Wall Street man. Let's see how you like it when you really have to fix your car, do your own landscaping, pave your own driveway, clean your own house, or even *gasp* parent your own children!
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Post by gyeonghwa on Oct 28, 2011 23:00:22 GMT -5
Go ahead and destory "Joe Mainstreet" mr. Wall Street man. Let's see how you like it when you really have to fix your car, do your own landscaping, pave your own driveway, clean your own house, or even *gasp* parent your own children! I can imagine him standing at the laundry machine, and failing miserably at trying to wash his own close.
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