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Do You Believe In Teacher's Unions? |
I believe Teacher's Unions have caused teachers to get overpaid 6 hour days with an average of 184 days off each year with benefits, pension, and way over minimum wage salaries. They don't have to work as hard as other people because they can't get fired even if they were slackers... because of strict union regulations. They pay the Union Head Millions. What happens to people who take on the hardworking jobs like manufacturing, cleaning? The Urban Poor? They get screwed over with crappy minimum wages! They benefit our economy more than we imagine! Most jobs don't come with benefits or pension. Teachers get BOTH!!! With all due respect, I do believe teachers should be treated as a professional field where they work hard and get fired and hired. In MOST STATES YOU BARELY EVEN NEED A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN TEACHING TO BE CERTIFIED FOR TEACHING? Most other professions these days need Master's? Do You Concur? Do You Disagree? Make Strong Points... Teachers deserve repect, however, the teachers union has contributed to the ruination of what was once the best education system on the planet. We need to allow teachers to teach. There are too many administrators and too much involvement by the unions. Why are home schoolers and private schoolers so much better educated than the kids coming out of public schools? Parents and private school teachers have much more leeway in the way they teach. Can you imagine trying to do your job without any creativity with someone always looking over your shoulder and paying $1200 a year just to do so? If I were you, I will organize well and protect my interest like those teacher's union rather than being jealous of them. Criticisms of the excesses are often valid. However, I support the unions. Toss out the bathwater, keep the baby, dude. Most profession's need a Masters degree? News to me. More then half of all Teachers have Masters degrees and above, guess you are wrong there, huh? http://www.nea.org/newsreleases/2006/nr0... I guess you did not have one teacher inspire you during your entire Primary school career? How sad for you. Get your facts straight. I disagree completely. Teachers already are professionals, but they get very little respect from people like you who don't know what they're talking about. My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She had a Master's degree. She spent six hours in the classroom, true, but spent hours at home correcting homework and developing lesson plans. She would often be up until midnight or later doing her job. This meant that she was often working 12-hour days. Do you think *you* could manage that kind of schedule? Teachers have to work with gifted, average, and slow students, often all in the same classroom at the same time. Teachers routinely have 25 - 30 or more students in the same classroom. Teachers have to put up with disrespectful students who curse them out because they're expected to do homework. Teacher's have to spend hours deciphering chicken-scratch because students can't write legibly. Teachers have to be alert, because students cheat and copy from each other. (Mom's had three or more students turn in the exact same report - word for word!) Teachers have to put up with intimidation and physical violence. (My mother got slammed into a locker by a student more than once. Other teachers have been murdered by students.) Teachers are responsible for the well-being of their students while they are in the school, and make sure they don't sneak out of class or leave campus, or that improper persons don't enter the class. Teachers have given their lives to protect their students. Do you think you would have the courage do to that? Teachers can be fired if they are incompetent or negligent or dozens of other reasons - if there's *proof*. The union - like any union - is there to protect teachers from being fired unjustly, amongst other things. Yes, teachers get benefits and a pension, but they EARN it! Instead of complaining about people being stuck in minimum-wage jobs, contact your congressional representatives to demand that the minimum wage be raised to a living wage. Contact MoveOn.org for information on how to do that. Campaign against big corporations who are illegally trying to prevent their workers from forming unions. Help out at literacy programs so that poorly-educated workers can try for better jobs. Don't just sit back complaining about it. DO something about it! |
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