Here in Cali it is one year’s pay for 180 calendar days they need to show up for work. I know people who work for far less and get up earlier than your wife and go to bed a lot later.

California? Oh! It all makes sense now! Why didn’t you say so!

*rimshot*

You took exception- like most teacher allies do. The problem is your teacher is the exception to the rule while the majority of teachers *who hate their jobs and teach like it* are not held accountable by the rest of the rank and file.

I took exception at the blanket statement. If you qualified your statement with this, I would have continued reading without a peep.

I speak of the norm and what unions allow.

And *there* is the problem. Cutting out the unions would likely solve a good 50% of the issues today. Actively recruiting talented people would probably solve the rest of them.

So let’s not paint this picture as if it were a perfect world. The American public school system is a failure. Why try to put cologne on a coyote.

I never tried to paint a “Gee! Isn’t our school system wonderful?” picture. I happen to agree that there are serious issues with it. I think it isn’t completely %#$%#ed up, but it’s rapidly traveling to a certain destination in a hand basket. Unfortunately, to accomplish a turnaround, drastic measures need to be taken and no one wants to do it.

By the way, unless you live in a state not governed by the Federal Tax Code,if her advanced degree was a requirement of her employment, it is largely tax deductible. If you didn’t take advantage of that, shame on you. So let’s not talk about out of pocket.

Yes, we’re not stupid. However, a tax break doesn’t really help when you have to shell out ~$2K in the middle of May. We also take advantage of all her business expenses. Doesn’t change the fact that we still had to pay them in the first place.

I apologize for going off the deep end, but I don’t like my wife being classified into the whole “Teachers suck!” statement. Most teachers suck? Eh, maybe. Some teachers suck and should be booted out onto the curb? Oh yeah.

There are bad teachers and administrators out there, but please don’t make blanket statements, lest ye come off looking foolish.

You took exception- like most teacher allies do. The problem is your teacher is the exception to the rule while the majority of teachers *who hate their jobs and teach like it* are not held accountable by the rest of the rank and file.

So let’s not paint this picture as if it were a perfect world. The American public school system is a failure. Why try to put cologne on a coyote.

By the way, unless you live in a state not governed by the Federal Tax Code,if her advanced degree was a requirement of her employment, it is largely tax deductible. If you didn’t take advantage of that, shame on you. So let’s not talk about out of pocket.

Your “180 day” thing is a statement of ignorance as well. While your child may get the summer off, teachers (and admins) stay behind, and do all the “behind the scenes” so your child can have some kind of classroom to walk into the first day of school.

Like hell. Again- you are speaking of the rose petals. The cesspool is full of double dipping scum who don’t show their faces during the summer, save for the 2 weeks before school starts.

I speak of the norm and what unions allow.

Now, step off.

Spoken like someone who has never actually gotten to know a (good) teacher.

Reacted to like somebody who doesn’t know that I was a teacher for nearly 30 years and know dead wood when I see it.

Here in Cali it is one year’s pay for 180 calendar days they need to show up for work. I know people who work for far less and get up earlier than your wife and go to bed a lot later.

So, pardon me for speaking about the cordwood who glut the California public school system. Finding the good ones is like looking for rose petals in a cesspool.

Think or ask before you speak.

If we want our kids to be learning..I would suggest the “no costume ban” would probably do the trick!

On October 28th, 2007 at 10:56 pm, ajmontana said:
God Bless Cheerleaders.

Back OT. And at a University you can teach in your underpants if you want to.

Your wife is one in a million–literally. I know too many of the other kind.

So she stays in the classroom where she teaches during the summer AND goes to graduate school? No offense, but that sounds foolish.

Cheerleaders wear less.

That’s why football was invented.

I always remind folks at the PTA meeting who want to “change” the way things are going at our school that it is run by people who are being paid an annual full time salary to work 180 days a year- no more and no less.

Spoken like someone who has never actually gotten to know a (good) teacher.

My wife who teaches third grade leaves the house at 6:45AM, gets to her building when it opens by 7:30AM, stays until they kick her out at 5:30PM, (She used to be able to stay until 7PM, but there have been budget problems), comes home, and usually continues working on our couch or her office for an additional 2 or 3 hours correcting papers, planning lessons, or other housekeeping. I estimate she usually puts in a 60 hour work week. Around report card time, that increases.

Your “180 day” thing is a statement of ignorance as well. While your child may get the summer off, teachers (and admins) stay behind, and do all the “behind the scenes” so your child can have some kind of classroom to walk into the first day of school.

My wife also went to school for the past 3 summers to get her masters degree, that the state requires teachers have. Paid mostly out of pocket, I might add.

There are bad teachers and administrators out there, but please don’t make blanket statements, lest ye come off looking foolish.

On October 29th, 2007 at 12:48 pm, LarryD said:
Protest costume for Long Beach High School Halloween – Burkas

Rack!

Watch the liberals heads explode from the internal conflict.

When I worked at remington “college” the school went through four sets of CNA instructors before I quit after being on the job for only six months. The sad thing is that these students because they paid $15,000 for a nine month course felt they were entittled to an “A” without the effort, made it clear that nothing would get in the way of it and ends up that the instructor has to change or the client (read: student) complains and still gets their way.
One of the biggest things I learned in a for profit school is that they are very big on image and appearances.

These students buy into the sales pitch that they are going to “college”, they have their own “honor societies”, that the academics are “tough”, that only a very few graduate with the distinction of going to (”Insert name of College) and their graduation mirrors that of the traditional four year institutions (right down to the cap, gown, and pomp&circumstance music).

Unfortunately my experience at the VA convinced me that I wouldn’t dare hire one of these indivduals-short story: dirty scrubs with the pants down to the crack of the buttocks. When asked to pull the pants up, I got the dirtest look and demanded to see the charge nurse. Interesting-the cna student immediately complied and the veteran (aka patient) was ignored.

Unfortunately there are alot of these kinds of students out there, and based on my experiences as both a patient and an instructor-wouldn’t hire them and would rather hire an LVN or a Paramedic instead.
GSP

Girls in outfit 1

Girls in outfit 2