Its bad that you can only get 3 days off of school before they start taking .25 credit off your GPA per extra day. I think its ridiculous the amount of time teachers get off- 15 days a year... out of 180 days. You don't see business executives taking that many days off for being "sick", yes they take vacation time, but teachers have the ENTIRE SUMMER off.
Want to talk about ignorance. I don't know how old you are or if you were a teacher but 90% of my high school teachers are lazy @$$es. Hmmm when do I get papers back.... never. How many sick days have you taken this year.... 3,4,5,6 maybe more. Do you even teach the subject... no you tell us to go home and do it. Do they even know the subject?
Wow man, what an ***hole thing to say. No offense, but I am guessing that you don't know very much about teachers, at all. Both of my parents are teachers, and they work their asses off. My dad has been getting up at either 4 or 5 in the morning for the past 23 years to teach high school in San Jose. And how can you whine about teachers time off in Summer... THEY DONT GET PAID! They get paid to work from 8 to 3, and get paid 0 for any overtime. There is no such thing as paid overtime, any work taken home or done at work is for free.
And how can you say that executives don't have it easy? Know what a bonus is? Doesn't exist in the teaching world. Know what paid overtime is? Doesn't exist in the teaching world. Know what a relaxing job is? Doesn't exist in the teaching world.
Hey, look at firefighters! They can start their carreer fresh out of high school, and already make more money than a teacher makes 10 years into their job. My neighbor is a firefigher chief (ooohhh ahhh he is such a hero, doing all that work!) NOT. He works 3 days and gets EIGHT off. How can you act like teachers have it so easy, when someone like a firefighter has it even easier? And they get paid overtime and massive more amounts of money, too. I am not badmouthing firefighters, I am just saying that people like them simply do not have the right to act like they have it hard. My Dad was at San Jose last night from 6-10PM doing work and catching up. Call that lazy? And all for free!
Teachers are hugely disrespected in this society, and get paid crappy and are treated like they have it so easy, but the reality is just the opposite. And I'm just getting started.
I am the kind of person that doesn't like BS.
And btw those teacher that work 180 days and get 15 sick days that never correct papers wages top out at $8x,000 in my town. Not to mention you have a 10 year contract that pretty much cannot be broken and basically once you have the job you have it for life until you quit or retire.
80,000 dollars!? Pass the joint dude! My parents starting salaries 20 years ago were 11,000 dollars. My dad has been working for 23 years, my mom for more than ten, and combined we make just about 100,000 a year. This is between two people. My Mom works at a college, but since my Dad has been working longer he is making slightly more. You want to get into salaries? You know about raises, right? My Dad hasn't had a single raise in 11 years. My mom just got one last year (the first time in around 7-8 years) and it is a whopping 3%!! Wow, she makes a few hundred a year more than she used to!
Thankfully my parents are very good at handling money, so we are able to live a nice life, and I am thankful for that. But just imagine, if my parents were both firefighters (example, again)! We would be so loaded by now, and not to mention that my dad would definitely be retired by now, taking it that most firefighters retire sometime at or before the age of 50.
Do you want to know why teachers have a bonding contract? First of all, they don't. They only reason why teachers continue their jobs til a very old age is because they cannot live off of the retirement money. My dad will be
65 by the time he can retire and comfortably live off of the retirement fund. My other neighbor is a firefighter as well, and he retired at 45 and makes 80% of his salary. My dad will be working for twenty more years before he can quit. He showed me the chart of how much you get per month (in a check) when you retire at certain ages.
If you quit anytime before 60, you are pretty much making ends meat, and definitely not enough to live even a remotely average lifestyle. At 65, it is still very unreasonable, but guess what! No matter how much you teach past the age of 65, you do not make any more money per month after retirement. So watch what you say before you do even any half ass research.
Furthermore, students have 3 unexcused days off. That means if you skip school or want to go on vacation. If you are sick that doesn't count but after 2-3 consecutive days you need a note by a doctor. Vacations are no unexcused. On the other hand, teachers get 15 sick days a year that they can use for anything. Furthermore if they do not use them one year they add them onto the next year, up to 180 days. Additionally if they never use them they can cash them in for paid days when they retire.
Do you know how much money teachers make for "cashing in" their unused sick days? It is a joke. Just about as pathetic as your argument. Sure they have sick days, but how can you act like it is such a treat? Someone working without sick days must have a tough job. Remember what I said about my firefighter buddy? 3 on, 8 off? Talk about sick days? He is bored he has so many days off, and people like him in this country get treated like gods because they are such "heroic" folks.
Teachers are the real heros, because it takes guts to walk into a profession where you get treated like crap (people tell me dad left and right how "nice" it must be to have the summer off, "and how he is soo special") But when you say something like that to someone like my Dad, he only feels worse because he has it really tough, and people act like he has it so easy, and he can never get any respect.
Also, it takes guts to march into a career where it takes FOUR years (at least) of college to get the job done right, and at the same time see people like firefighters start their job with no college education, and make double the salary as teachers right off the bat, and after all that be treated like hot stuff because they have it so tough. It takes guts to start a career where you know that you will be working until you are a grandparent, just to make enough money to live the end of your years respectively.
To be a teacher, you have to be really really passionate about your profession, because no one in the right mind would start a teaching career unless they really knew that that was what they wanted to do for the rest of their life, and that it will be a fight.
That's my two cents. Take it and keep it.
i get so tired of hearing kids complain about things they know nothing about. i can't wait to hear the responses to this one!
