tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post8690923769874694150..comments2024-03-11T11:13:12.066-05:00Comments on Homeschool and Etc.: A Short PostHappy Elf Mom (Christine)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15047347624037697311noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-74193872335930907042011-03-03T22:05:50.192-06:002011-03-03T22:05:50.192-06:00I do think teaching is a tough job. I taught for ...I do think teaching is a tough job. I taught for one year at a private school before I got married and about a semester into it I decided that teaching other people's children would not be my profession! As much as the kids drove me crazy, the parents were worse!<br /><br />Anyway, I also think that teachers are overpaid in some places.....Southern California to be sure! LAUSD has an enormously high drop-out rate--one of the highest, if not the highest, in the country! And we pay teachers crazy amounts of money, plus free health care and retirement. Since when do we give people raises for doing a bad job? I heard on the radio yesterday that the AVERAGE starting pay for a teacher in Orange County was about $75,000. That's not a tenured teacher, that's a starting salary! And for administrators, it's worse! Up to $120,000!!!! And that doesn't include their free healthcare and pentions.<br /><br />Yes, their jobs are tough(!), but they certainly get paid well to do it. I think a lot of them should stop their whining. Seriously.<br /><br />The whole country is cutting back and is in a recession, why shouldn't teachers and administrators pay reflect that, just like every other profession. Why the protected class? The unions are bankrupting my state.<br /><br />(I'm grumpy about it at the moment. I'm doing my taxes.)Gombojav Tribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02396911376797476193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-35396288524662725882011-02-26T16:25:40.889-06:002011-02-26T16:25:40.889-06:00Teachers! Why those %$&*)#@ bums. Just kidding...Teachers! Why those %$&*)#@ bums. Just kidding. It is a rough job, but it does have its rewards. Lately I've been trying to avoid those staff members who are founts of negativity. And I'm still pushing my agenda. Obviously things do need to change. It would be great if we had fewer kids with absent fathers, but I can't change that, so I'm pushing for curriculum changes.Harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12586139365230028783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-89309377683703870012011-02-25T21:20:07.008-06:002011-02-25T21:20:07.008-06:00I understand what you are saying, but having worke...I understand what you are saying, but having worked in the school system for a short time, unfortunately, I have heard too many teachers talk just as much crap about the children they are supposed to be encouraging to learn and parents behind doors of those union protected jobs in our government schools. I do not think if I were a teacher that I would wish to be considered "collectively," but then I think unions are past their time here in the U.S. and are just a power-play, money-making, lobbying scheme at this point.seekingmyLordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03242380845994448311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-87299887749619978552011-02-25T10:13:45.595-06:002011-02-25T10:13:45.595-06:00Yep! Some fantastic teachers out there who deal wi...Yep! Some fantastic teachers out there who deal with some really heavy stuff.<br /><br />You got my wheels turning, Mrs. C. Thanks! [smile]<br /><br /> ~LukeLuke Holzmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799632321310461828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212741399857110313.post-50098066363605981122011-02-25T08:12:26.872-06:002011-02-25T08:12:26.872-06:00You make some very good points. There are some tea...You make some very good points. There are some teachers out there who do live and breathe for the kids they teach. They are amazing people who do deserve our thanks and much credit for their hard work.<br /><br />I like the 'live and let live' as far as the gay/lesbian thing goes. It's not a matter of acceptance of that lifestyle to me, it's a matter of in this day and age it's so publicized that kids will learn/hear about it and I want my kids to be tolerant as am I, but not brainwashed or impressed by it. I think middle schoolers are very impressionable, and at an age of wanting acceptance from their peers, struggling with their own hormonal fluctuations and then meeting a teacher they might like on a friend level and having them talk frankly about something so personal without parental permission is wrong. I don't see how any kid in public school needs to know whether their teacher goes home to a traditional family or a pile of people that are of the same sex. How is that conversation for a class room? <br /><br />It's so funny you bring this up. Sydney has had the same therapist for the last 5 years, since her OCD diagnosis. The therapist is a lovely woman who always seemed 'tomboy-ish'. But she and Sydney got along famously. She was like a friend of the family. We LOVED her. LOVED! I went to her Dad's calling hours a little over a year ago and that is when I found out for sure and for certain that she was a lesbian. Fine. That didn't effect her therapy with Sydney, she was the same dynamic force who wanted to see our girl do well. Until this fall. When I shared with her that Mr. Blondee's doctor was suggesting he could definitely have sensory processing disorder, not just OCD. She *in front of Sydney* said that I should consider leaving him, taking Gavyn and Sydney and be open to parenting without him to hold them and myself back!!!! <br /><br />That was the first time I felt her trying to push her agenda of 'if I can't have a normal family, then neither should you'. She also told me I was special and cute and she would help me find a place downtown to stay....near her. Ummmmm, gee...thanks.<br /><br />We left and haven't been back. <br /><br />Have a great weekend yourself, and if it's you wishing the snow on us...I've had plenty. Please keep it. :D<br /><br />JennBlondeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11827536147609261504noreply@blogger.com