stan teachers unions
stan teachers unions
and reminder that the opportunity cost of a few days’ strike is far outweighed by teachers being overworked to the bone without adequate compensation or psychological support, resulting in the best teachers weeding themselves out of the field altogether.
anti-union sentiment is hurting kids.
It's not just the pay.
It's also the constant walking on eggshells about every single topic
Administrators controlling how teachers run their classroom
Discipline being relegated to the teachers taking time away from teaching
Open communication between parents and teachers being abused with no help from administration
Lack of resources to properly cover certain topics
Lack of programs to properly educate different types of students in ways they need, ways that a traditional classroom environment doesn't provide.
Source: Former teacher
I would say 10 years ago it probably would have been mostly a pay issue. Now, all the teachers I know, a raise wouldn't be enough to right the ship. Teaching to the test, no child left behind, the ever increasing behavior problems with no real way to stop it, the list goes on and on.
This is spot on. A family member of mine is a high school teacher and faces everything you laid out. I'd add the seemingly constant threats of lawsuits and violence to further illustrate the untenable atmosphere.
violence?
wow thank you for sharing this :)
You know what would help a lot (in the long run, at least)?
If teachers could teach kids how to unionize so that it's not an alien concept to them when they leave school.
Local School Board: It's bad enough you Teachers are unionized, don't spread the pinko propaganda to our dear christian childrens
I loved teaching. I went broke doing it, but I loved it.
this is what is so heartbreaking! teachers are what we thought doctors were growing up. i don’t know one who isn’t so intensely passionate and loving towards their students and work.
and the despicable cost-cutting system recognizes that and decides to simply take advantage of it. “the most passionate individuals are willing to do the job for the least pay? easy business decision.”
and when yall manage to scrape together a union we’ll further blame student issues on teachers’ failures, and not school leadership’s failures to partake in collective bargaining, a process so well entrenched in society that most other industries are able to do it without even coming close to a strike.
sorry im worked up over this, don’t know if you could tell lol
What ended up making me quit was the bureaucracy. The low pay, on it's own, was awful, but I was willing to put up with it.
Getting screamed at by some office worker because they didn't like how I chose to fill out an attendance report made me go "This is not worth it. I'm better than this."
I was making $16.50 an hour teaching in the early 2000s. I'm now making just under $70 an hour working in the profession I was teaching.
as a former student, there are some bad apples in public schools, and I mean teachers, administrators, coaches & janitors.
Same. Might consider going back in the future but probably not.
Teachers in America are paid and treated like absolutely noone cares about them. Without them, prisons would be even more overpopulated, the wealth gap would be a wealth chasm, events of bigotry would skyrocket, parents would have to pay for daycare, children would go without lunch, etc. Honestly I have a hard time imagining anything in this shithole getting significantly better without improving funding for teachers and schools. However, I think that’s the exact reason they aren’t funded-better.
When I graduated college, I was interviewing with the charter school that my mom works at. They were looking for ANYBODY with a degree in physics. It didn't matter that I wasn't a licensed educator, it didn't matter that all I had was a Bachelor's degree. They were offering an annual salary of $42,000 per year.
Two years later, I'm making over 4x that amount, annually, as a software engineer.
I really would love to teach, because I love science and I love teaching. But I love financial stability and a good work/life balance wayyy more.
My dream would be to coach full time. I've interviewed with colleges (smallish and local) and it might as well be volunteer since it's not football or basketball. Damn shame.
Same. be a part time math tutor. It pays well ($50+/hr & you're under no one's thumb) for trig and you filter for generally interested students.
I pay $3500/year in school taxes. Teachers are in poverty while administration makes well into six figures, and climbing. Make it make sense.
Was it that Bush II started 'no child left behind' and it has grown into a bureaucratic monster?
My dad has told me multiple times “teachers unions are the worst thing that has happened to teachers.”
Someone very close to me is a teacher and I don’t think I’ll be able to stand hearing him say it again.
thats so enraging im so sorry
We generally find that the preponderance of empirical evidence suggests that teacher unionization and union strength are associated with increases in district expenditures and teacher salaries, particularly salaries for experienced teachers. Cowen and Strunk
It's a good deal if you live till ninety and retire at 65. The one in my family is rolling along at her same payrate each month (adjusted COLA) as she had when she left, and since inflation has been under control, generally, it's like her pay was effectively doubled. Every month she gets a Direct Deposit for the amount she would have got if she were still working, 25 years of that and she only worked for 20.... UNIONS!