I teach high school sciences (physics, anatomy, biology 1 and 2, chemistry, and integrated sceicne) at a rural school in Missouri. Two of these courses I teach for dual credit. I spend a lot of my time rigging up equipment and trying to find shortcuts and least expensive routes to teach my students. If I had the supplies I need to teach the students, I wouldn't mind the lower salary that I receive. Yes, I have a master's degree in biology and have been located in this community for over 30 years since I married into a farm family. My facilities are grossly inadequate but I "manage." Administrators come and go as do school board members and rarely, if ever, have I heard "thanks" for doing all you can with the situation we have here. Or, better yet, we would like to give you a stipend or other compensation for the extra time you put in to do all of these "extras" so the kids can have some lab experience before they go out into the college world. If AIG receives a bailout, why not "bailout" he teachers across America who are preparing the students who will be the leaders in years to come. Maybe, just maybe, we could change America one student at a time. Maybe it would lower the crime rate. Maybe the economy would change on its own. Maybe the CEO's should go back to kindergarten and start over and learn to share.
I Am Not A Babysitter
As a teacher, I face many stereotypes about my job. But I wouldn't trade my career for any other.
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Posted By: missbioteach @ 11/19/2008 9:37:30 AM
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Posted By: Elizabethluce08 @ 11/06/2008 6:47:23 PM
This article came across my email one day after my father said to me, "Why are you wasting your college education on being a teacher?" Needless to say, thank you for the validation that we're just as capable and contributing as any other career professional.
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Posted By: Mccain08 @ 11/05/2008 12:15:05 PM
As a school administrator, my perspective if that this lady wrote about the overall misperception that teachers are less-than capable or intelligent than professionals in other careers. She's written about the huge assumptions people make about teaching, and provided examples of the extra work that goes along with many typical weeks in the classroom. Stop taking each word so literally; big picture, people. I have to be honest, too, it wasn't until I became a school principal that I felt I received respect from professionals in other fields....Sad, but true, and it validates what this article and so many of my own building teachers say.
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Posted By: tct2008 @ 11/05/2008 10:37:17 AM
I'm sorry, but saying "a teacher that doesn't work until late at night... isn't doing their job" is a crock! I do a better job in my hours at school than many of those that work late (or so they say!)
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Posted By: Cuileann @ 11/01/2008 5:48:09 PM
Excellent article. Unfortunately and sadly, I've read the same thing over and over again from the time I started teaching in 1968 and forward! Isn't it a shame that things are still the same???
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Posted By: blm34 @ 10/28/2008 9:44:54 PM
PS, I agree with Obamaalltheway...the teachers cutting out at 3 o'clock (and not taking home any work, on any day) are normally the ones that give us reputations for being simplistic and in the profession for holidays and July off. We all know teachers who refuse to do any work outside of school hours and dare I say we've also seen the results of their lessons in lower student performance. This ain't no Leave it to Beaver generation in 2008, people. It takes more than just showing up with cookie-cutter lessons and splitting at the last bell every afternoon.
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Posted By: blm34 @ 10/28/2008 9:39:20 PM
Haus, if you just worry about paying the bills and could care less about respect, get another job. You're clearly in the wrong profession.
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Posted By: obamaalltheway @ 10/28/2008 8:48:50 PM
I teach in urban LA and am the single parent of twin, four year old girls. I drop my daughters off at daycare around 7, am at work by 7:30, pick the girls up around 5, do dinner and the home routine with them, and then tend to any needed grading or lesson planning once I put them to sleep. If there is an after school event that I need to tend to I take the girls with me. Teachers are often pressured/asked to attend after school events, meetings, games, etc. In schools like ours, teachers may be the only people in the stands supporting the kids. It's not like that every night, but the extra hours are required to really put my best foot forward. And I'm a ten year teacher - not a newbie so it's not a matter of working inefficiently. It's a tough routine, but both roles, parent and teacher are highly rewarding. I could easily find another job that pays me more, requires fewer hours, and delivers more professional respect for me. BUT, I'm doing what I love and don't hate going into work each day like many of my friends working in corporate jobs. And I don't feel frustrated at the end of the day like some of those same people. It's true that you can be a strictly 8-3 teacher and only work within those hours, but most educators would agree that those teachers aren't contributing their best. And if there's any job that requires our best it's education. Would you want your banker cutting corners with your accounts to get out of the office by a certain time? Would you want your doctor slipping out of the office when your charts are still to be reviewed? This article didn't say a thing about higher pay (By the way, Haus, if you're working just to pay the bills - get a different job, we don't need your kind in education), just that teachers aren't less capable or talented than other professionals and the low pay doesn't deter the most dedicated.
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Posted By: neverquit85 @ 10/28/2008 5:49:51 PM
Exactly, Haus totally missed the point. One of the earlier comments made good use of what the writer says: it's somehow deemed a less 'smart' job, less challenging, and less demanding than jobs in other professions. If your friends or family are questioning your 'waste' of talents on a 'low skill' job like teaching, they need to follow you around school for a day. Walk a mile in our shoes before you judge our 'intelligence'.
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Posted By: LucasBrown @ 10/28/2008 5:03:47 PM
Haus, if teachers like these that you mention are willing to work 'for nothing' (you probably should examine your motives for being in the profession if you think we receive 'nothing') and cause us to lack respect from other professionals, then let's just turn the entire education system into a business so we can all profit and ignore the intrinsic rewards that MOST of us are working for.
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Posted By: LucasBrown @ 10/28/2008 4:48:37 PM
I think many people reading this article are missing the point. She's not saying anything about teacher pay - she even refers to NOT asking for more pay because teachers do what they do because of the passion. She IS saying that the profession typically receives about as much respect as an hourly babysitter's job. And like the woman said, respect is free.
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Posted By: Haus @ 10/27/2008 4:55:50 PM
It saddens me to read articles like this one. I do agree with a few things she says - I am not a baby sitter, for instance. However, I wouldn't mind getting paid like a baby sitter (2 dollars an hour per child would almost double my paycheck!) I've been a teacher for 12 years and have a masters - I am too embarrassed to tell many how much I make. Also, I take offense to the "salty teacher" who says you have to take work home and do it until 8 or 9 or you aren't doing your job correctly. Does this woman have a family at all? I refuse to work all weekend when I have the most important children (my own!) who need my attention. I would tell the teacher working 70 hours a week to get a life and work smarter, not harder. I've become very efficient throughout the years and take great pride in that.
Respect doesn't pay the bills. It is teachers like these - willing to work for nothing - that keeps us from getting the respect and pay we deserve. -
Posted By: jtbjr @ 10/24/2008 2:52:26 PM
Absolutely on target -- thanks for writing this article. The best that a concerned community of administrators, parents, public, and policymakers can do for us is to reduce administrative routines and excessive oversight and let us do our jobs following our own professional ethic. The idea is to serve the kids, not various adult agendas. With regard to the way we are perceived, I think most adults in other professions form perceptions of teachers based largely on their own experiences as learner or as a parent...but have never learned what it is like to actual be a teacher in a modern classroom. So, naturally, we are relegated to a domain of preconceived notions. Ours wouldn't be the only profession like this -- oddly, it seems like those who serve the public are often seen as the least viable professionals. Maybe the restructuring of the economy and a focus on the equity we have in our educational resources will help defeat the notions that we are underemployed college graduates who could do better.
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Posted By: chguth @ 10/22/2008 2:38:27 PM
THANK YOU so much for writing this. I am a teacher of (gasp) 10 years now! I am constantly trying to preach this message. Thank goodness we do it for a higher calling, because if it depended on the respect or recognition we received, no one would teach.
I was completely disheartened when someone very close to me asked me why I as "The smart one in the family" didn't consider trying something more - what did he say - well, I can't recall the exact words, but the message was basically, "You're so capable, why aren't you doing something more than JUST teaching." I can't believe the professional world is so unaware of how difficult, demanding, and important our work is! I would challenge any one of them to prepare 7 presentations a day, complete with visuals, handouts, and creative activities; answer to the bosses of the personnel to whom they are presenting, and be paid very little for it. -
Posted By: refuse2fail @ 10/22/2008 1:08:29 PM
Adam, the 'award winning teacher,' is out of touch with reality and is a disgrace to the profession.
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Posted By: elsie-eye @ 10/21/2008 10:11:42 AM
Although I am not an educator, my 28 year old daughter is...I cannot tell you how many nights I have called her at 7, 8 or 9 p.m. to find her still at school working on one thing or another....I cannot tell you how many tears I have witnessed her shedding over a child in difficult circumstances, an idea she is trying to execute on behalf of her kids, a co-worker with whom she is trying to build a cohesive relationship, or sheer stress and exhaustion. So Adam in Tempe finds himself with a cushy gig! How lovely for him! But, he reminds me of the Navy recruiter talking about world travel and private suites on board ships to high school seniors! What he describes is NOT what I see as my daughter's reality or that of my other children's teachers! Good teachers work hard...and while any fool can see they don't do it for the money...they most certainly DO deserve compensation comensurate with their education and efforts.
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Posted By: howardroark2355 @ 10/20/2008 10:36:47 PM
Yoda,
I am sincerely disgusted at the fact that you took this much time to write such a response to this article. If you had any knowledge of teaching at the primary level, it is not as easy to reuse "tests, quizzes, and assignments"--and is that even challenging your students? I work an average of 9-12 hours a day while I have a family at home, and am completing my Master's (which is not a waste of my time, and if teachers feel that higher education is pointless they are providing a wonderful example for our future generations)--and this is because I am inefficient? I'm jealous of your wonderful salary, because I am supporting three people on $33,000 a year, paying $1000 a month for health care, so after taxes I bring home almost $1400 a month; hardly "excellent." I have never posted comments about anything I have ever read, but your ignorance has helped inspire me to say something for all of the good teachers out there. The point of this article was not to complain, but to demand respect as teachers. Obviously, this was completely lost on you, a fellow teacher. Lucas is right: PLEASE retire because you are giving the rest of us a very bad name. -
Posted By: howardroark2355 @ 10/20/2008 10:26:19 PM
I sincerely cannot believe someone with 18 years of education experience has the audacity to print such an outrageous response; let alone take the time to give us "specifics." Obviously, if you have any knowledge of teaching at the primary level, it is not as easy as using the same "tests, quizzes and assignments"--and is this challenging for your students? I spend 9-12 hours a day at school working while I have a family at home and you think that this is because I am inefficient? What kind of point are you trying to prove here? I make $33,000 a year, support myself and two other people, pay $1000 a month for health benefits...should I go on? The point of this article was NOT to complain about these issues, but to demand respect for the hard work we do--which was completely lost on you; a fellow teacher.
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Posted By: LucasBrown @ 10/20/2008 6:25:33 PM
Yoda Of Math, you're the exact reason why teachers receive the unfair stereotypes that we do. Do us all a favor and retire.
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Posted By: YodaOfMath @ 10/20/2008 4:47:13 PM
I would hate to be in her class. As a teacher for the last 18 years I can say from experience that Ms Robinson is entirely off base. Specifically:
1)I don't work until 8:00 or 9:00 at night, nor do I know any teachers who do. I am done by 3:00 or 4:00 pm. The key is to work efficiently: save all tests, quizzes, and assignments that you create to reuse in the future and after a few years lesson planning is very quick and easy.
2) Summers off? YES! Ms Robinson says teachers should spend the summers taking classes to increase their professional skills but nearly all teachers agree that taking education classes is largely a waste of time. We do it to get raises; most teachers agree the education classes are useless for any other purpose; you learn on the job. After a few years, most teachers have all their classes in to get the maximum raise and never take any more.
3) Ms Robinson says it's a windfall if two classes actually flow according to the lesson plan. She really needs help with her lesson plans. A good teacher makes a realistic lesson plan and has the expertise to implement it as written. It's rare when a class doesn't follow the lesson plan.
4) And by the way, the pay is excellent. When you include the week off for fall break, two weeks for winter break, week off for spring break, 10 weeks off for summer break, every national holiday off, plus sick and personal days if you take them, you realize we put in only a fraction of the hours that other professionals put in. If you divide our salaries by the hours worked, our hourly wage is just fine ( I earn about $60,000 a year, work 185 days at 8 hours a day. That comes out to about $40 an hour, and that doesn't include full dental and medical benefits, and matching contributions to an awesome retirement plan).
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Posted By: Haus @ 10/27/2008 5:01:54 PM
Yodaof Math -
I actually work all summer to make ends meet (I do construction jobs). I agree that most summer courses are a waste of time but are needed to stay licensed. I wish I worked in your district - $60,000 is about what our administrators make here. However, I know a guy in the natural gas business with no degree that has just as much time off as I do and makes $15,000 more. Now that's respect. -
Posted By: chguth @ 10/22/2008 2:51:55 PM
Adam,
I will not chide you, but simply admonish - you should not be teaching the same lessons the same way every year to every class. You should be staying abreast of the most currect research, changing your teaching practices a little at a time, and adapting your lessons to the students whom you teach.
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Posted By: dporter000 @ 10/18/2008 11:28:14 AM
After ten years of teaching, I firmly believe that Ms/Mrs Robinson has truly gave an insiders guide to education and the public perspective on our job. I would challenge any "professional occupation" to deal with 125 teenage students, 5 classes each day, and deal with irrational parents. The newly elected president must face the challege to raise the value of teachers and, as the article pointed out, not by increasing pay.
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Posted By: wandayork @ 10/18/2008 3:02:22 AM
THE FLAVOR OF THE WEEK IS NOT WHAT IS IMPORTANT
I was happy to read Heather Robinson???s article, ???I am Not a Babysitter.???
Thank you for addressing our education system and our cultural biases.
In a nutshell, EDUCATION has become marginalized as well as the educators. Although we are in the midst of an election, American education is in a crisis. After the presidential campaign and other distractions have settled, it???s important to realize what is truly important in our future as a nation: the education of our future citizens.
As Heather Robinson mentioned in her article, we are always faced with having to justify our position as educators as though there is ???something beyond??? an instructor???s profession. And so I ask you, ???Do you care who is teaching your children when you aren???t???? I would. Ironically, most officials that establish these laws wouldn???t dream of placing their own kids in a public school.
Educators are learners as heart. I can almost guarantee you that those who pursue education as a profession are not in it for the money or the vacations. (The average current salary for a public school teacher is around $40,000)
That is for more that 40 hours a week. Ask any instructor and you will get a mouthful. They love what they do and they love their students. Not only do teachers have to go through an accreditation program (although antiquated) to teach in public schools (which is another year after undergrad) but also there is NO guarantee that a young teacher will be placed and after the cutbacks, who is the first to be cut? The first to enter the system. Placing your children in the hands of these professionals is worth more???much more. Teachers and our children???s education should be at the very front of our concerns, not the media???s flavor of the week.
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Posted By: LucasBrown @ 10/16/2008 2:54:05 PM
Maureen, 'defence' equates to the same meaning as 'defense', 'defence' is simply a British-leaning spelling.
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Posted By: maureen23 @ 10/16/2008 2:36:09 PM
Maybe Newsweek should take some spelling lessons from Mrs. Robinson. In DEFENSE of teachers.
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Posted By: maureen23 @ 10/16/2008 2:35:04 PM
maybe Newsweek should spell defense correctly.
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Posted By: cleoj @ 10/16/2008 12:02:59 PM
Thank you, Heather, for a beautiful description of what a teacher is. Having gone through a credentialing program, and shadowed several teachers, I can appreciate what hard work teachers have to do every day. Though I didn't actually go into the teaching field once I completed the program, my respect for teachers has still grown immensely. The world can't thank you enough for the job you do. It really is too bad that Americans (like Floridave) tend to show their teachers less respect than they deserve, a quality that many countries embrace, and I'm sure in part leads to a better education system overall.
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Posted By: enjoyingretirement @ 10/15/2008 11:59:25 PM
( this is the full version of my post)
I loved teaching. Something happened around my 25th year of teaching. I realized I was not teaching any more. It didn't take long to figure out that you cannot teach students who do not pay attention, do not do their homework and do not care if they learn, only that they get a good enough grade to not fail.
I could no longer pass on such students to the next teacher without shame at the prospect that I would be ruining the next teacher's class. You see, my school lowered their standards so they would not have to fail as many students. Math students were allowed to pass on with a grade of D minus.
You can imaging what that does to the chances of a teacher having success teaching her curriculum.
After hanging on for another 5 years, I decided to take early retirement and am now working in the education field, but not the classroom. That decision has probably added years to my life. -
Posted By: enjoyingretirement @ 10/15/2008 11:49:08 PM
I loved teaching. Something happened around my 25th year of teaching. I realized I was not teaching any more. It didn't take long to figure out that you cannot teach students who do not pay attention, do not do their homework and do not care if they learn, only that they get a good enough grade to not fail..
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Posted By: teachergirl @ 10/15/2008 10:52:47 PM
I'm a 16 and a half year veteran in Missouri with a Masters + 30 who makes just a tad over half of what my NYC colleague makes. We are educators, parent substitutes, social worker, administrators of justice. We are expected to understand and be able to deal with any and all medical situations faced by our students, as well as helping them to deal with their crumbling home lives, adapt to any and all special education needs, as well as adapt our curriculum to challenge our best and brightest. Respect? I crave it. As a middle school teacher, I often hear, "Were there no jobs in high school/elementary?" I'm a middle school teacher by choice! Most days I'm on the go from 7 a.m. to about 8 p.m. I'm never bored and no day ever goes as predicted. I love it and wouldn't trade it for anything. As an 8th grade teacher, I make something a lot of people don't. I make a difference!
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Posted By: BWA167 @ 10/15/2008 7:37:40 PM
I'm a veteran NYC teacher with two masters degrees. I make a little over $100,00 per year, and I have an excellent pension and retirement package. While I do spend many hours grading papers, creating lesson plans, and devising appropriate assessments, I do not feel that I am underpaid. I used to work for a Fortune 500 company. I would never ever return to the corporate world. Teaching brings amazing rewards for those of us who love the profession. Sadly, there are far too many teachers who don't like their jobs, administrators, students, and/or parents. These people should find a new profession quickly. They are shortchanging themselves and their students.
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Posted By: joannvilla @ 10/15/2008 7:28:33 PM
I forwarded this article to all of the teachers and administrators at my school. If anyone was curious about the true life of a teacher, this young lady from Dallas sums it up. I, too, would not trade this profession for any other in the world. A small aside - if you are a parent and you have children, remember this article the next time you meet your children's teachers at the next open house or parent/teacher conference.
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Posted By: Yuseff @ 10/15/2008 10:52:34 AM
Teaching is sorely underappreciated. The greatest reason I could never go into teaching is that I could not and would not subject myself to the type of abuse and disrespect that teachers face.
Conservatives have a disdain if not downright hatred for education and liberals want you to be a social worker if not part-time parent.
I have no college degree and a non professional but I make more than most teachers do with a better
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Posted By: dffarrar @ 10/15/2008 10:35:29 AM
It is a shame that out of this wonderful and inspiring article all that Floridave (see comment below) could muster was a negative attitude. This attitude toward educators and their proefession is exactly what Ms. Robinson was illustrating - see what they are up against. Not only do teachers deal with students who don't all want to be there, but they deal with parents and other professionals who look down upon them for their calling.
Ms. Robinson's only statement regarding pay was that there are other professions also in need of better compensation. It sounds as though Floridave has a chip on his shoulder. This example of other's perceptions of teaching as being nothing more than PTA meetings and school carnivals is exactly what Ms Robsinson was illustrating. Our classroom teachers are layng the foundation for our children's success, and therefore the success of our nation and of our world. Why then are they continually put down for just desiring the respect that one would think would accompany such a position and profession? -
Posted By: LucasBrown @ 10/15/2008 10:29:31 AM
Floridave - you missed the entire point if you are focusing on teachers who complain about pay. That's not what Ms. Robinson wrote about. She wrote about respect. Which is free.
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Posted By: bethniece @ 10/15/2008 10:22:06 AM
Wow. Please read the article abefore posting. She's asking not for more money but for respect, clearly something you are unable to offer.
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Posted By: dffarrar @ 10/15/2008 10:21:35 AM
It is a shame that Floridave's comment just below mine interpreted Ms. Robinson's letter as an opportunity to whine. It just goes to show that each person's perception is their reality. Ms. Robinson only had once sentence regarding pay, and it was to say that other occupations, as does hers, deserve a second look at compensation.
I come from a family of many educators and have seen and heard first hand the many difficulties and triumphs that they face each day. Ms Robinson's whole point was that attitudes, like Floridave's, that regard teaching as nothing more than PTA meetings and carnivals are the real problem. No one can argue that teaching/education is the foundation of every person's success - why then denegrate those who are called to do exactly that?
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Posted By: Floridave @ 10/15/2008 10:06:33 AM
Why do people go into low paying occupations and complain about low pay? I understand doctors complaining about high overhead and insurance regulations that strangle the high pay they were anticipating... but teachers? It's not so much a job as it is a calling. The rewards are not monetary. I'm sorry you have to work late on the occasional carnival or PTA meeting, but maybe you can catch your breath next summer at the beach while I am still working every day.
I have always admired teachers, especially the ones that enjoy the rewards of watching those little lights come on inside their students when they finally understand what they've been taught. The other teachers that whine about their pay.... not so much.-
Posted By: Haus @ 10/27/2008 5:07:31 PM
Floridave - I will not mince words as many of my fellow teachers have here - you are an idiot and no doubt a Republican.
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Posted By: oceanaire @ 10/14/2008 6:38:59 PM
Bravo. The only people we truly remember (and value) into our dotage are those teachers who made a difference in our early lives. I remember mine, I have been one, and would be prouder than you can know if one of my children was to choose the teaching path.
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Posted By: hrob27 @ 10/14/2008 4:46:28 PM
If people ever dispute the value of teaching, tell them this: when I was a senior in high school, my American history teacher invited a Holocaust survivor to speak to us about her ordeal in a concentration camp. When I asked after class how people could stand by and do nothing while such atrocities occured, my teacher told me words that I still remember to this day. He said: "Neutrality in the face of evil is acceptance." These words have influenced some of the most important moral decisions that I have made in my personal life. Without those who make the sacrifice to teach children what they should know, our great society would be worthless and bankrupt. The youth would grow up with no appreciation of history, values, or culture. As bad off as some kids are now, imagine how bad it would be with no teachers to show them the way.
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Posted By: arcsc @ 10/14/2008 2:45:12 PM
Thank you for the contribution of the article, and for what you do. I realized in college that I should teach, but went to law school instead. When I attempted to teach at the high school level in the local school district a few years ago, I was told I would have to return to school (two years at night to obtain certification). Not a real option, and I imagine that there are other professionals who would make very good teachers who are stymied as a result of hoop jumping. I turned my attention to teaching at the local community college at night and love it. What fun, and what a sense of accomplishment. I hope to teach full time at some point. Again, thank you for contributions to society.
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Posted By: CaryStewart @ 10/14/2008 8:04:26 AM
Heather, you are right and research backs you up. The fact is, most teachers who quit the profession do so not in search of money but in search of respect. The fact is, excellent teachers spend their summer "vacation" completing coursework and writing next year's lesson plans. The fact is, a teacher who hopes to reach every child will sift through more data than an economist.
I once divided my "8am-3pm" teaching salary by the actual hours I worked with and on behalf of students. Between spring carnivals, PTA meetings, band concerts, parent conferences, staff meetings, mandated professional development and my regular planning & grading, it turns out I made a little less than half of minimum wage. -
Posted By: danielwford @ 10/13/2008 4:29:15 PM
Ms. Robinson,
Thank you for answering your "calling" in life. You are an inspiration to the profession of teaching. Notice I said "profession". You truly mold the future, and in spite of the negative feedback our profession receives, when we remain faithful to our calling, we know our effort produces achievement. Your building principal is absolutely blessed to have you on staff.
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Posted By: Fallenwish43 @ 10/13/2008 11:56:58 AM
The fact is that if you are realy working from 5 am to after 7 or 8 pm, you aren't paid enough. Period. Especially with the degenerates that you are forced to teach, or at least keep under control long enough so that other's can learn. It's great that you are so committed and not bitter, because there are plenty, PLENTY of bitter teachers who hate their jobs, hate their students and administration, hate thier schedules and blame everyone else for a choice they themselves made. I wouldn't be a teacher because they aren't respected and they aren't paid. It's sad, but true. Thank you so much for your contribution to society - you are amazing and inspirational!
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Posted By: Sparks622 @ 10/12/2008 3:33:17 PM
I have always admired teachers and the remarkable job they do. I have always stressed to my own children to never stop learning or to stop teaching in their chosen professions. Thank you Ms. Robinson.
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Posted By: psychadelicshak @ 10/11/2008 7:37:12 PM
Did I write this article?
As a Philadelphia middle school teacher, you have taken the words right out of my mouth. As a nation that often measures a person's worth by their pedigree I am so amazed that teachers are not publicly regarded in a higher manner. There once was a time when teaching was as respectable a profession as medicine and law. I long for that day again...
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