How ignorant so many people are. Nationally, teachers average 182 working days and make a similar annual wage of people with equal degrees whom work an additional 65 days per year.
247 working days for most american jobs at 8 hours per day= 1976 hours worked per year, and they too often talk to bosses or take home calls having to do with work yet not on the clock.
182 working days for teachers. So to work just as many hours per year they need to work 10 hours 51 minutes per day....
Oh we know that shit isn't going to happen just by looking at that school faculty parking lot! As for take home work that too is a joke because many americans (self included) have much more take home work than teachers.
---A curriculum is easy when the state or school district already has it planned out, the books to use, the pages that must be covered each week of the year. Also, [answer keys] are often premade and given to teachers by the book publishers. The only real exception is teachers that must read written reports but even those are becoming more rare in schools. Computers are sure taking a lot of former teacher work away as well.
I said this before and I will say it again because it's SPOT ON!
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Originally Posted by Tileman
We are in desparate need of the government jobs to be structured similar to corporate america...
-Allow for evaluations to actually CUT a teachers pay if under performing.
-Retirement changes to a 401K not the gravytrian they have now.
-Group policy for health insurance the same as any other company.
-1 week sick leave with pay since they only work half the year.
-No union! A government job AND a union---WTF?
-Contracts (1-3 years each) using Supply vs. Demand. Over supply of people willing to do a job ALWAYS lowers the pay scale except in government jobs.
-Punch a time clock! No more salaries and THEN america can see the hours actually worked.
---I'm self employed in construction, I also drive part time as a chauffeur and I am a landlord... Whining to me about take home work is a laughable offense.
OH, by the way, I gross about 30% more than teachers even though I work a full year, not half. I also pay more in taxes (self employment tax) and nobodies paying my retirement or get group insurance.... I'm not mad at my situation, but instead mad at how easy the government throws away the taxes I pay! Once again, government jobs are in desparate need of being regulated like the private sector.
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I also want to add--- The private sector has ALWAYS out performed government with a *Better product or service at a cheaper price*..... Do you really think there would be a shortage of teachers if it were treated like the private sector when states like mine graduate twice as many teachers as there are positions available?
Offer School vouchers equal to 50% of what people pay for public schools and you'd see all over america run away from public education quickly and test scores would show immediate improvement on those privately educated students....
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