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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
As someone who works in a school, from what I understand is that as every year passes by more and more is required from teachers. I know lots of run-of-the-mill public grade school teachers that start every day at 6am, or even earlier. And often many of them are still there at 6pm, sometimes later. I've seen a few work all-nighters just to get done what is required from them. I should know, I'm the night janitor.
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As always, I'm speaking broadly. My shop teacher spent evenings and weekends with us to create an electric car building club that he eventually turned into a curriculum and class. He stopped by my 40th birthday party.
You think he got paid more than the deadbeat with the same number of years who put in the minimum amount of effort to get by?
What percent of the teachers are staying 6am-6pm? I saw the science teacher drive off in his Miata every day while I waited for my bus to depart the parking lot. Must be nice to go home from work at 2:20pm. He was an excellent teacher. Let me stay in his class even though I wasn't registered. Said if I could pass a pop quiz, I could stay.
After the 1st year of teaching, the curriculum should be mostly developed. Not like practicing ABCs in a Kindergarten class requires a lot of prep and review of the material. That's not to say it isn't a difficult job to get a bunch of low attention span kids to pay attention and take direction, or that dealing with parents is a cakewalk.
Heck, teachers have tons of breaks during the day. They aren't teaching when kids are on recess, at lunch, doing PE or music. In high school they get a period or 2 off as an admin time.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
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I could get 2 weeks of school work done in a single day of detention. Pretty easy to breeze through it when there are no distractions.
Wouldn't be surprised if I could keep my kids up to speed with a single hour, broken into 2 or 3 sessions.
Problem is that classes have to be taught to the lowest common denominator, because "no child left behind". Also, "no child to excel".
This is exactly what most idiots want these days though, because that's precisely what equity is. You can't make a dumb kid bright, but you can make a bright kid dumb.