I want feedback on my sociological ideals.
Here’s
what feedback looks like: $. How’s that for blatant materialism and
capitalistic theory?
I want
to know if I’m a good teacher. I want to
get PAID to do my job well. For the love
of god, someone please hire me or fire me or give me a raise or threaten to give
me a pay cut BASED SOLELY ON THE WAY I DO MY JOB.
I have
a friend (okay, this friend is only 17 years old, but I don’t have any other
friends, so don’t judge me. Plus, he’s
smarter and more mature than most adults I know.) and he is a staunchly
conservative republican. So … I usually
totally disagree with all the bullshit propaganda that comes out of his mouth,
even though I love to argue with him.
And even though his is deeply conservative and I am a flaming social
liberal, I agree with him 100% that unions are destroying education. When everybody gets paid the same amount of money
based on years of service rather than based on performance, we are communist
China. I don’t understand how AMERICA
(insert flags and declarations and pledges here) can tolerate such a
fundamentally flawed system, ESPECIALLY when it involves THE CHILDREN (do you
see all these emotional and logical appeals happening?!).
In my
teacher inservice today, I looked around at the people in the room, and (having
worked with these people and heard about what they do via other teachers and
generations of students), I was thinking that I could probably accurately
assign a legitimate dollar amount to the work they do as a teacher. Some teachers work their asses off to make a
difference. Some teachers watch
videos. Some teachers teach …
foods. Physical Education. Parenting.
These people are not reading 15 page research papers and evaluating research,
writing, and critical thinking skills (which are then monitored by the school district
and the state) on a daily basis. Tell me
how that’s the same job, equal pay.
I
occasionally joke about teaching and say I should be a P.E. teacher instead so
that I don’t have to work so hard all the time, working a full work day and
then taking home papers to grade for hours and hours every night, BUT I would never
teach one of those elective things. The
reason I teach is to (try to) make a difference in the lives and intelligence
levels of students, not to sit on my ass and collect a paycheck (obviously). But I’ll tell you this with absolute
authority: the path education is on is
systematically killing the altruistic dreams of real teachers. People who go into teaching as a mission do
so because they are affecting people intellectually and personally, and the
rise of the “education” degrees does nothing but compromise legitimate thinking
in favor of “theories” presented by online “universities” which are simply
collecting money from teachers in exchange for higher pay scales. WHAT IS THE POINT?! Stop paying teachers because they took a
ridiculous education theory class about font size online and pay them based on
what they do in the classroom instead.
No
other profession has such stupid, backwards rules for “advancement.” Fucking socialists.
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