Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Teachers Are Not In Touch With Real World Economic...":
I am a teacher and I take offense to your post.
1) your first statement makes no sense, teachers leave school just like every one else who attends school does, with the expectation of earning a salary, only when teachers start off they begin their carrer earning slightly less then other entry level position.
2) teachers have to meet the standards that are set up not only by the community that they teach in but standards of the state and federal governments as well
3) It is true that the primary job of teachers is to develop lesson plans for students. in doing so they must also deal with individualized education plans (IEP's)which requires them to tailor their lessons to students on a case by case basis while not loosing sight of the state mandated curriculm.
4)Every one is entitled to days off, even teachers. Most teachers work in some capacity over the summer and so their actual days off are not that different from other professions. maybe you havn't been reading the papers latly, teacher layoffs are a distinct possibility in some districts so it is incorrect to say that teachers are not subject to economic pressure.
5)your assertion that teachers do not understand risks presented by hard economic times is baseless and unfair. We do pay the same taxes as others on the island and many of us are married to non teachers who face the perils of the economy.
6) I came into teaching as a second profession after having many years in the military and the business world and I can safly say that teaching is at least as difficult if not more so then my time in the business world. What is truly insulting is your use of the word "us". this implies that you think that teachers are not part of the same community that you belong to. Also, you speak about teachers and their jobs as if you have first hand knowledge of what a teacher does. would you think it fair if I was to make such comments about your job?
7)You say in your last paragraph that teachers could face layoffs and yet in a prior paragraph you imply that teachers don't have an understaning of the economic climate. How can both be true?
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Here's responses to each of your flawed arguments:
ReplyDelete1) Plainview teachers salaries are not entry level salaries. Your statement screams ignorance.
2) Meeting educational standards for a job does not bring entitlement. The rest of the world calls them "job requirements".
3) Lesson plans and IEP's are your job..if you don't want it criticized, then stop complaining about it.
4) "Everyone is entitled".. There. You said it yourself. You feel "entitled". Many go to work without vacation and/or personal time available. Or worse, have it but can't use it. You spend half the year off from work (not including sick days, vacation and personal time) ...and you feel "entitled". Boy, you really don't get it!
4) Paying the same taxes and marriage to non-teacher does not provide you with personal insight about working in other environments. Reminds me of the line people say..."I know what its like to have kids...I have a nephew."
6) More difficult than the business world? Again..you show your ignorance. Many work hard (very hard) outside of teaching and still fail economically. Can you name the last school that went of out business and fired all the teachers? And when tenured are protected for poor personal job performance. Personally, I don't need knowledge of what you do...tutors, Kumon, Sylvan and Huntington have demonstrated what hasn't been done.
7) There was no inconsistency in my statement. You have been more secure in your position than the others around you in the economy and that security would remain. It would be solely your greed and contract demands which which may ultimately destablize the security for the non-tenured nubiles on the teaching staff. In other words, teacher greed will trigger the exposure to decline. Ultimately, if the recession and unreasonable "entitlement" continues, I anticipate that you will bring the economic harship to yourselves. Why? Because you just don't get it.
Are you a teacher in the Plainview Old Bethpage Central School District? If your objective is to be taken seriously, posting a comment with multiple errors in spelling, grammar, capitalization and punctuation is not the way to go about it.
ReplyDeleteYou write, "The primary job of teachers is to develop lesson plans for students."
ReplyDeleteI am a teacher. My primary job is to meet students where they are so I can instruct and nurture them to develop into productive members of society. This includes developing relationships with students, building trust with them and their families, maintaining safety, motivating them to learn, differentiating instruction to meet a wide variety of educational needs, fostering self-esteem, partnering with parents, planting the seed for future growth, setting examples, creating a community minded environment of mutual respect and tolerance, building our nation's future and oh, so much more.
If you think your primary job is to "develop lesson plans for students," perhaps you should consider another profession. You certainly do not represent all teachers, perhaps all teachers in Plainview but even that I would find unlikely. It is so much deeper than that.
You must be my child's teacher. You have terrible spelling and grammar and have no sense of how to address taxpayers in a professional manner.
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