Living with a teacher for a mother has made me mostly immune to complaints about these things. Not that they’re not valid complaints, but that they’re always there and aren’t going away any time soon.
Also popular complaints:
All this standardized testing encourages sloppy teaching!
The AP program is ridiculously strict on lesson plans!
Lazy teachers need to stop giving the profession a bad rap!
The district needs to figure out how to budget!
The de facto requirement to spend 100% of the budget is ridiculous!
Job politics should not be so important!
And a few more specific examples pertaining to her being a foreign language teacher who just moved districts:
Why am I getting paid less than I did when I taught low-income students?
Why does this district make me teach four different levels of curriculum?
Why does my kid’s district have no foreign language until high school?
Why did the last teacher leave no materials behind to help me?
Being teacher teaching a foreign language (not english, mind you)
I’m paid the same whoever i teach.
But I’m paid less than teachers in the US.
I don’t get to play with kids, but kids gets to play (mind games) with me.
I have to buy my own crayons.
I don’t get to make standardized tests.
Lazy teachers are kids favourites.
We don’t have to spend 100% of the budget. If we do we get less money next time. If we don’t, we get even less money next time.
I have to teach to nine different levels.
There are foreign language for everyone. Sadly, it’s not always counted that the country’s language is a foreign language for some. They must have had sport as mothertongue.
The last teacher never leaves materials because they haven’t got time for that: they’re running away from teaching (otherways they wouldn’t have had me as a teacher). The point is the administration also leaves no clue of how they function (well that may have to do that you can only survive an administration, as it is a darwinian test, as we learn from Tip today).
For the rest I quite enjoy being called being from a communist country by some american people…
So, my theory for this is that the animals are sometimes intelligent and sometimes not – that they switch back and forth between two distinct states, the way that Unity does, except hopefully not controlled by brain-eating. Hence why right now the cheetah isn’t sentient (and why the bird wasn’t sentient) but why the Washingtonians treat them as though they are.
The money wasn’t actually being thrown at the problem… NCLB was a way to divert money and time away from known methods, and hamstring any district that was actually trying to take care of its kids. The idea being to keep the teachers busy with the standardized tests, while trapping the districts in a Red Queen’s Race. (“Keep your scores rising forever, or lose your funding and autonomy.”) Not to mention sending money to various ShrubCo cronies like Neil Bush.
We could only wish money was being thrown at the problem. Besides the things mentioned by Mental Mouse, it should also be noted that everything involved in the No Child Left Behind act was dependent on selling student records to the military – the actual actual goal of the legislation was recruitment. The rest of the problems were a double bluff used for distraction .
I’d honestly love to know why the Hell super superintendents are paid so much more than teachers. It makes no sense to me. Budget shortfall? Slash the pay of those at the top, then if you must, work your way down.
It’s a hierarchical organization, and the first purpose of any hierarchy is to concentrate power, wealth and privilege at the top of the pyramid. Any useful work done by the organization is a by-product, subordinate to the function of concentrating power, etc., at the top.
It’s said—and I don’t remember where or I’d have something exact—that there are some fourteen thousand employees of the Los Angeles school district, none of whom have anything to do with teaching the kids.
I told my foster kid’s kindergarten teacher I felt sorry for her, because she was in the only job where you have to steal supplies from home to take to work.
I looked and can’t find where Boob Tip was a teacher before the plague, but this seems to prove it.
Happy teacher work day to those that share my school calendar!
I’m spending it waiting for my mom to get home from school so she can make dinner before finishing grading…
I was going to ask why they would have emergency booze, but looking back over the archives, I’m pretty sure I’d be more worried if they didn’t have emergency booze somewhere.
A more puzzling question is, given how much booze it takes to get Sweetheart drunk, and the dearth of decent room service after the apocalypse, how do they still have emergency booze?
… and the big cat happily continued to munch the leg of the *last* person to say those things. Would the supply ever run short?
To be fair, alt-Tip only knows the rant so well because she *is* a teacher.
ALL booze is emergency booze
I’d go with ANY booze is emergency booze, all booze can be emergency booze, but sometimes you want a drink, when you don’t need a drink.
I’ll drink to that!
I really like the idea that there’s are ordinary animals and not sentient and the team absolutely has no idea how to deal with it.
Living with a teacher for a mother has made me mostly immune to complaints about these things. Not that they’re not valid complaints, but that they’re always there and aren’t going away any time soon.
Also popular complaints:
All this standardized testing encourages sloppy teaching!
The AP program is ridiculously strict on lesson plans!
Lazy teachers need to stop giving the profession a bad rap!
The district needs to figure out how to budget!
The de facto requirement to spend 100% of the budget is ridiculous!
Job politics should not be so important!
And a few more specific examples pertaining to her being a foreign language teacher who just moved districts:
Why am I getting paid less than I did when I taught low-income students?
Why does this district make me teach four different levels of curriculum?
Why does my kid’s district have no foreign language until high school?
Why did the last teacher leave no materials behind to help me?
etc., etc.
Being teacher teaching a foreign language (not english, mind you)
I’m paid the same whoever i teach.
But I’m paid less than teachers in the US.
I don’t get to play with kids, but kids gets to play (mind games) with me.
I have to buy my own crayons.
I don’t get to make standardized tests.
Lazy teachers are kids favourites.
We don’t have to spend 100% of the budget. If we do we get less money next time. If we don’t, we get even less money next time.
I have to teach to nine different levels.
There are foreign language for everyone. Sadly, it’s not always counted that the country’s language is a foreign language for some. They must have had sport as mothertongue.
The last teacher never leaves materials because they haven’t got time for that: they’re running away from teaching (otherways they wouldn’t have had me as a teacher). The point is the administration also leaves no clue of how they function (well that may have to do that you can only survive an administration, as it is a darwinian test, as we learn from Tip today).
For the rest I quite enjoy being called being from a communist country by some american people…
So, my theory for this is that the animals are sometimes intelligent and sometimes not – that they switch back and forth between two distinct states, the way that Unity does, except hopefully not controlled by brain-eating. Hence why right now the cheetah isn’t sentient (and why the bird wasn’t sentient) but why the Washingtonians treat them as though they are.
Or the Washington politicians are rarity intelligent 😉
Ooo, what if they WERE sapient and something happened?
Or for some reason non-Washingtonians are reality-blind in Washington?
Well, mostly, it’s the terrible lack of results and decline in the quality of education that’s happened despite the money being thrown at the problem.
The money wasn’t actually being thrown at the problem… NCLB was a way to divert money and time away from known methods, and hamstring any district that was actually trying to take care of its kids. The idea being to keep the teachers busy with the standardized tests, while trapping the districts in a Red Queen’s Race. (“Keep your scores rising forever, or lose your funding and autonomy.”) Not to mention sending money to various ShrubCo cronies like Neil Bush.
ShrubCo. Haven’t heard that one before.
We could only wish money was being thrown at the problem. Besides the things mentioned by Mental Mouse, it should also be noted that everything involved in the No Child Left Behind act was dependent on selling student records to the military – the actual actual goal of the legislation was recruitment. The rest of the problems were a double bluff used for distraction .
I’d honestly love to know why the Hell super superintendents are paid so much more than teachers. It makes no sense to me. Budget shortfall? Slash the pay of those at the top, then if you must, work your way down.
It’s a hierarchical organization, and the first purpose of any hierarchy is to concentrate power, wealth and privilege at the top of the pyramid. Any useful work done by the organization is a by-product, subordinate to the function of concentrating power, etc., at the top.
That part I already know. I was hoping for an acceptable answer.
Those who do the actual work should be paid as such.
It’s said—and I don’t remember where or I’d have something exact—that there are some fourteen thousand employees of the Los Angeles school district, none of whom have anything to do with teaching the kids.
I question the wisdom of taking a course of action that, if successful, ends up with a net result of a raging cheetah.
They have a (happy to be) rampaging Unity.
My mother and my wife were both teachers; my daughter still is. I know for a fact that they ALREADY have to buy their own classroom crayons.
I told my foster kid’s kindergarten teacher I felt sorry for her, because she was in the only job where you have to steal supplies from home to take to work.
I looked and can’t find where Boob Tip was a teacher before the plague, but this seems to prove it.
http://skin-horse.com/comic/said-sweetheart-7/
Happy teacher work day to those that share my school calendar!
I’m spending it waiting for my mom to get home from school so she can make dinner before finishing grading…
I was going to ask why they would have emergency booze, but looking back over the archives, I’m pretty sure I’d be more worried if they didn’t have emergency booze somewhere.
A more puzzling question is, given how much booze it takes to get Sweetheart drunk, and the dearth of decent room service after the apocalypse, how do they still have emergency booze?
Maybe the teacher knows it’s impolite to talk with your mouth full