re: What in the actual frick - 4 day school weeks

Maybe you will!

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The 40 year old man who posts like a 24 year old woman is giving us life lessons. Lovely.

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How does he post like a 24 year old woman? Lame insult.

Four day school weeks have the same amount of instructional minutes. The main purpose is to save money on bussing and utilities.

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Four day school weeks have the same amount of instructional minutes. The main purpose is to save money on bussing and utilities.

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Correct, and they’ve been doing this in TX since at least the 90s. It’s nothing new.

Fair enough

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Jealous of shift work? Listen just because you chose your career poorly doesn’t mean I give a shite about your opinion of my business.

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Yet here you are trying to knight for teachers that CHOSE their prodession.

Just curious how public schools are getting paid. Where does that money come from? I’ll hang up and listen.

By the way, as I mentioned, the teachers did not say one single thing about the students they teach. It was all me me me, I’m the victim, I’m the victim, I’m the victim. Poor me, poor me, poor me.

That’s the problem I had with the interview, which I stated above.

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They get fricking 3 months off in the Summer, and another month of Holidays during the school year. An 8 month work schedule, and now they need a 4 day week? How fragile are these people? What they really need is year round school, and for teachers to have to pass a bi-yearly competence exam.... pass or be fired. PERIOD. The kids they are graduating can't read or do basic math... What a bunch of lazy, ineffective, whiners. Work year round like the rest of us, and do your damn jobs.

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These posts are so fricking stupid and completely ignorant of actual reality. Where to start:

1) teachers don’t get 3 months off a year. It’s closer to 2, but the better ones are working all year.

2) teachers don’t work 8-3. Their days don’t end when the 7th period bell rings. Most stay at school till 4 or 5 and then work another 2-3 hours at home working on lesson plans or grading papers

3) YOU think of teachers as babysitters, rather than actual educators

4) Because of 3, YOU vote down higher teacher pay, YOU stigmatize teachers as lazy whiners, which disincentives the people who would actually be really good teachers from pursuing that path as a career, which makes YOU responsible for for the self fulfilling prophecy of unqualified teachers becoming teachers. You saying painting them all as sucking and labeling them all as such, prevents the ones who wouldn’t suck from pursuing that path, leaving only the ones who do actually suck from taking the gig. Your attitude, based almost solely on sheer ignorance, creates the very attitude you loathe.

5) Twitter and Facebook are not real life. The teachers you see whining and validating your preconceived notions on social media make up a tiny fraction of actual teachers. The good ones don’t feel the need to exonerate themselves on there, because they’re secure in knowing they’ve done nothing wrong.

6) Like any profession, if you want better candidates, provide more incentives. Not just monetarily, but social status. If the children are out future, teachers should be paid and treated like the shepherds of that future.

7) A lot of teachers suck, but you’re just a fricking a-hole and sick worse.

8) And you’re a hypocrite. You know M-F/8-5 is not the most best way to get the most efficient results. Countless studies have proven that, but if you’re intellectually honest, you know it yourself. How much work are you actually getting done on Fridays? How much from 3-5 Monday through Thursday? Even if teachers were 100% locked in during those times, you know as an adult you’re checked out, so you think your kids aren’t going to be?

I taught a college freshman freshman course 1 semester as a GA. Kids were great. Because they chose that class and them or their parents were paying for it. I taught Jr. and Sr. High School American History for 2 years. At a Christian private school. I-2 years difference in age, but an enormous gulf in behavior. Because they knew they had to be there, and their shitty a-hole parents did a shitty job of raising them to not be shitty a-hole kids. Still, in 2 years, I never hear 1 single teacher complain. Because real life is not social media. And shitty assholes like you are too dumb to know the difference.

I don't have the energy to post that all of that logic anymore. Seems like we have this thread weekly on here, and they always devolve into the same misconceptions, hyperbole, and emotional reactions.