My mom, my aunt, both sisters, several cousins, and now my daughter in law are all (or have been) public school teachers. Watching them, the most obvious thing is that we don’t pay teachers nearly enough to do the difficult work that teaching has become. Asking someone who makes $40,000 a year (and needs a master’s degree to advance) t…
My mom, my aunt, both sisters, several cousins, and now my daughter in law are all (or have been) public school teachers. Watching them, the most obvious thing is that we don’t pay teachers nearly enough to do the difficult work that teaching has become. Asking someone who makes $40,000 a year (and needs a master’s degree to advance) to just do planning on evenings and weekends is not the answer. But most of the funds go to top heavy administrations, and yes, ridiculous diversity garbage.
If teachers earned a better salary, more high quality people would enter the profession and the resulting competition would drive out the riffraff who can’t spell or use correct grammar or who have affairs with coworkers or go into teaching simply because they get summers off and don’t actually like kids or teaching. But we have to start by gutting administrative overhead. And then stop expecting teachers to also be social workers or substitute parents or police officers.
Newly retired NYC special ed teacher. If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have busted my behind to have the perfect class with the perfect lesson plan. The Admin was always up our butts for perfection and Data. They only cared about numbers and stats and drove us bonkers. I didn’t have the thick skin like some and took a lot of the BS personally and seriously. We were required to work occasional weekend mornings for Parent workshops as well as late nights for conferences. I worked many hours planning and preparing on weekends and even summers off I was always researching and looking for new material. I’ve been hit, bitten and attacked by many a student and verbally abused by strung out crazy parents. Have called child welfare services on a few for abuse and was told to hide when that parent came looking for me. Had plenty of nightmares and missed out on a lot of fun with my own family cause I was so busy with work. Gave myself migraines, carpal tunnel, frozen shoulder and bulging discs from the job. I now have Adrenal Fatigue which my Dr says took years to get and will take a long time to correct. I am currently working on detoxing my life!
You have my respect and admiration. Have you ever read the books of Charlotte Iserbyt, John Gatto, Dean Gotcher, or a book titled Educating For The New World Order? Also a book by the late Maureen Heaton. These people tipped us off years ago about what we see happening now.
My pleasure. Here for you and others (please pass it on if you think it useful) is some info by Dean Gotcher. His explanation of Diaprax explained to me much of what I saw going on in the government schools. Our daughter was tricked into a "gifted" class at Bexley elementary/junior high. Presented to us as academic enrichment, this "pull-out" class, in lieu of Social Studies (which is also rotten) was really Diaprax/brainwashing using special materials such as Harry Stottlemeier from Montclair State Uni. and a guy named Lippman and also Jr. Great Books, offshoot of Great Books Foundation from University of Chicago and a couple of Socialists/Commies. I could speak for an hour about Bexley's lies to me.
Yes. Our experience not enough money or respect considering the education needed. The dedication. My hubby corrected papers way into the night. He worked hard to teach. But problems in schools were writ large and included teachers, sadly, during the pandemic snd I heard several say they didn’t want to be around the “child plague rats”. Yes one said that. Online was fine with them. Of course results vary everywhere. If I was to do it again I would homeschool. Unless education gets its act together.
My mom, my aunt, both sisters, several cousins, and now my daughter in law are all (or have been) public school teachers. Watching them, the most obvious thing is that we don’t pay teachers nearly enough to do the difficult work that teaching has become. Asking someone who makes $40,000 a year (and needs a master’s degree to advance) to just do planning on evenings and weekends is not the answer. But most of the funds go to top heavy administrations, and yes, ridiculous diversity garbage.
If teachers earned a better salary, more high quality people would enter the profession and the resulting competition would drive out the riffraff who can’t spell or use correct grammar or who have affairs with coworkers or go into teaching simply because they get summers off and don’t actually like kids or teaching. But we have to start by gutting administrative overhead. And then stop expecting teachers to also be social workers or substitute parents or police officers.
Newly retired NYC special ed teacher. If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have busted my behind to have the perfect class with the perfect lesson plan. The Admin was always up our butts for perfection and Data. They only cared about numbers and stats and drove us bonkers. I didn’t have the thick skin like some and took a lot of the BS personally and seriously. We were required to work occasional weekend mornings for Parent workshops as well as late nights for conferences. I worked many hours planning and preparing on weekends and even summers off I was always researching and looking for new material. I’ve been hit, bitten and attacked by many a student and verbally abused by strung out crazy parents. Have called child welfare services on a few for abuse and was told to hide when that parent came looking for me. Had plenty of nightmares and missed out on a lot of fun with my own family cause I was so busy with work. Gave myself migraines, carpal tunnel, frozen shoulder and bulging discs from the job. I now have Adrenal Fatigue which my Dr says took years to get and will take a long time to correct. I am currently working on detoxing my life!
You have my respect and admiration. Have you ever read the books of Charlotte Iserbyt, John Gatto, Dean Gotcher, or a book titled Educating For The New World Order? Also a book by the late Maureen Heaton. These people tipped us off years ago about what we see happening now.
Thank you 🙏
I will look into these authors/books.
My pleasure. Here for you and others (please pass it on if you think it useful) is some info by Dean Gotcher. His explanation of Diaprax explained to me much of what I saw going on in the government schools. Our daughter was tricked into a "gifted" class at Bexley elementary/junior high. Presented to us as academic enrichment, this "pull-out" class, in lieu of Social Studies (which is also rotten) was really Diaprax/brainwashing using special materials such as Harry Stottlemeier from Montclair State Uni. and a guy named Lippman and also Jr. Great Books, offshoot of Great Books Foundation from University of Chicago and a couple of Socialists/Commies. I could speak for an hour about Bexley's lies to me.
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/dialectic-gotcher.htm
Diaprax - Practicing the Dialectic
Lynn Stuter also wrote about Diaprax as used by government rats and others. Look it up.
Yes. Our experience not enough money or respect considering the education needed. The dedication. My hubby corrected papers way into the night. He worked hard to teach. But problems in schools were writ large and included teachers, sadly, during the pandemic snd I heard several say they didn’t want to be around the “child plague rats”. Yes one said that. Online was fine with them. Of course results vary everywhere. If I was to do it again I would homeschool. Unless education gets its act together.
Ohio teachers are quite well paid. And administrators even more so.