re: Give teachers a raise....Nah.

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I think they are paid pretty well for what they do. They get off at 3pm. They have long holidays off and the whole summer! They chose that career. Quit crying about this. They have great benefits too.

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Cajun tiger 4

You sir are a fricking idiot! Love when people talk about teachers as if their job is easy! Until you have walked a mile in their shoes, shut the frick up!

I have been teaching for 12 years and every year the job has gotten harder and harder. This is why no one is going in the the profession anymore. There is a national teaching shortages and as more and more teachers quit for retire, the gap gets larger and larger. No one wants to go get a four year degree to deal with the bull shite we deal with on a daily bases. The long hours, paper work and BS from undisciplined kids are too much for many people to handle. Parents blame the teachers now days for everything little Johnny does wrong, rather than making their punk arse kid own up to the things the kid did wrong. Or, at the least admitting they are shity parents.

I coach football and I can tell you that I have never gotten off at 3pm! For all of the time I spend at practices in the fall, spring and summer, the games, travel time etc. I make about 26 cents an hour with the little stipend we get for coaching.

Kids now days are downright disrespectful and their parents allow it. Ever year we get a new curriculum to use that basically tells us that we don't know what we are doing and that we need to change our methods yet again. teachers are ridiculed everyday and watched like hawks from the administration. No other profession is watched " to make sure we are doing our job right " than teachers.

I am working on my master in educational leadership so that I can get our of the classroom because I am tired of being told that the way I teach is wrong, even though I have the highest grades in the district for my subject. One day there wont be enough teachers because of all of the BS we constantly deal with from people like you who are completely disconnected from what is going on.

I challenge you to be a substitute teacher for one week. If it so easy, then you should be able to handle it with flying colors. Before you shite on teachers, you need to walk a mile in our shoes.