I'm sorry I couldn't resist jumping in here to say I don't have any respect for teachers at all. Their pay is pro-rated, I know, but they have WAY too much time off. No, I don't expect them to be babysitters, I expect them to teach. I figured it out one time, and if you subtract the whole summer off, Christmas, March break, Easter, all weekends and stat holidays, storm days, sick days, teachers "workshops", 1/2 day exam days, and all the other reasons for days off you are left with less than 150 full classroom days in the entire year!! Disgraceful. I suppose you can't fault the teachers for that, they are taking the perks that are offered them. I have little respect for the system. Back when I went to school in the 60's and 70's we didn't have near the time off they have off now. It's no wonder teenagers can't read or write today. They need more time in the classroom, it's that simple. They've had almost 3 months off now, what other job do you know has all this time off? (Please don't say welfare recipients)!!
I sort of agree with the above-the 'system' is far too closed. It's virtually impossible to get rid of a bad teacher. The time off certainly isn't their fault, its hard to change a system once its been set in stone. In Switzerland parents vote on curriculae and even meet to hire teachers.
Here it took way too long for the educational system to adapt. In fact, for the $6300 it takes for each child you're probably just as well to cut a parent a cheque and send the kid to a private school. Other provinces pay way more per child, so could easily do that.
The internet has literally made most class teaching styles obsolete, just like the calculator did to math. Want to know when the Battle of Hastings was? Just type it in. Its not like that info is going to help you later in life anyway. It's like we're telling kids "we want you to be able to win at Trivial Pursuit when you are older".
But some teachers foster a real love of learning, and that is priceless, most are smart enough to move into administration after ten years when it becomes old hat, the rest should be forcibly replaced.
Like most 'systems' it works reasonably well most of the time. Yet there is virtually no way for people to attend the issues, which makes it hard because now you have schools trying to get parents more involved, and parents saying 'why would I?'
Just keep one thing in mind. A teacher works a hell of a lot harder for a lot less money and has far more working hours than your Legislative Member whose pay is obscene for the little work they did and tiny fraction of time they work in. Note to critics: listening to people gripe and saying "I'll see what I can do" is not work.
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Hope she does better than the teacher hater.
Was I that bad????....lol
No,just kidding.
But I,m a teacher defender.
Although they can handle themselves very well.
And a lot of votes in the teaching assoc. as mckenna found out.
I'm sorry I couldn't resist jumping in here to say I don't have any respect for teachers at all.
Their pay is pro-rated, I know, but they have WAY too much time off.
No, I don't expect them to be babysitters, I expect them to teach.
I figured it out one time, and if you subtract the whole summer off, Christmas, March break, Easter, all weekends and stat holidays, storm days, sick days, teachers "workshops", 1/2 day exam days, and all the other reasons for days off you are left with less than 150 full classroom days in the entire year!!
Disgraceful.
I suppose you can't fault the teachers for that, they are taking the perks that are offered them.
I have little respect for the system.
Back when I went to school in the 60's and 70's we didn't have near the time off they have off now.
It's no wonder teenagers can't read or write today.
They need more time in the classroom, it's that simple.
They've had almost 3 months off now, what other job do you know has all this time off? (Please don't say welfare recipients)!!
I sort of agree with the above-the 'system' is far too closed. It's virtually impossible to get rid of a bad teacher. The time off certainly isn't their fault, its hard to change a system once its been set in stone. In Switzerland parents vote on curriculae and even meet to hire teachers.
Here it took way too long for the educational system to adapt. In fact, for the $6300 it takes for each child you're probably just as well to cut a parent a cheque and send the kid to a private school. Other provinces pay way more per child, so could easily do that.
The internet has literally made most class teaching styles obsolete, just like the calculator did to math. Want to know when the Battle of Hastings was? Just type it in. Its not like that info is going to help you later in life anyway. It's like we're telling kids "we want you to be able to win at Trivial Pursuit when you are older".
But some teachers foster a real love of learning, and that is priceless, most are smart enough to move into administration after ten years when it becomes old hat, the rest should be forcibly replaced.
Like most 'systems' it works reasonably well most of the time. Yet there is virtually no way for people to attend the issues, which makes it hard because now you have schools trying to get parents more involved, and parents saying 'why would I?'
Just keep one thing in mind. A teacher works a hell of a lot harder for a lot less money and has far more working hours than your Legislative Member whose pay is obscene for the little work they did and tiny fraction of time they work in. Note to critics: listening to people gripe and saying "I'll see what I can do" is not work.
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