There’s no shortage of teachers. We’ve just driven them out of schools.
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Here's another factor: Society is actively telling young girls to avoid professions that are historically dominated by females. "Don't be a teacher, be a principal!" "Don't be a nurse, be a doctor!"
While this is laudable from a feminism standpoint, MEN are not going to step in and fill the void, and we're all going to need a teacher and a nurse at various points in our lives.
But increasingly, no one wants those jobs anymore.
While this is laudable from a feminism standpoint, MEN are not going to step in and fill the void, and we're all going to need a teacher and a nurse at various points in our lives.
But increasingly, no one wants those jobs anymore.
You are so wrong that it’s not even worth the back and forth. Typical MAGA response.
Depends where and what you teach. I'm in a pretty liberal district and I know a lot of frustrated teachers. Then again, the state gov wants to go 180 the other way. I just want to teach the kids to think for themselves.
Work longer days to get a three-day weekend most weeks? Many would. The CO district that implemented it did so because their pay is the lowest in their area and they couldn't get residents to vote for a tax increase to raise pay. This was done as a "bonus" to attract teachers.
And, yes, it creates problems for the residents who don't want to pay their teachers a competitive salary. *shrug* Pick your poison.
Agree about telling women they can do anything and there is nothing wrong with that at all. They can, and should take on any job.
It's a false narrative about men in school. There have always been tons of male teachers in secondary buildings and the amount of male elementary teachers is on the rise.
It's totally a small sample size but the last 3 times I've been into urgent care/ ER the doctor was a woman and the nurse was a male.
I think gender stereotyping seems to be decreasing for jobs.
Every classroom in my district PK-6 has a classroom library of supplemental texts. Some of the books are consistent across classrooms, many are not. Particularly as you get to 3-6 the books become tailored by subject and student ability. We have kids who are reading 3-4 books/week. They don’t go to the library often enough to cover that demand for books. Thus teachers build mini-libraries for their rooms.
This practice is years in the making and so now teachers have to go back and catalog what is in their rooms before they can hand it out.
You said:
"I’m starting my 26th year in education and literally the only people I’ve encountered with political viewpoints are the MAGAs..."
Your profession has more left leaning people than not. That's been well documented. Numerous examples of those political viewpoints creeping into the classroom. I don't believe your statement one bit.
Last statement. You have NO idea what goes on in a school on a daily basis. None. Quit acting like you do.
Not worth engaging on this. I'm in year 31 and I couldn't tell you who most of the people I've worked with in all those years voted for. I can't imagine a workplace where politics is a regular topic of discussion - I can't even remember the last political discussion at work. There's just no time for it - we've got work to do.
I live in one of the most consistently Republican voting counties in Indiana. We don’t even have Democratic candidates in most races.
My superintendent, HR Director, elementary curriculum director and tech director are staunch evangelical Christians. Most of our building level admins are as well. I would say our teacher group is probably 70/30 conservative/liberal split. We have maybe 5 of 300 teachers who could remotely be considered “woke”. And most of the 30% liberal are Indiana liberals (so just to the right of Eisenhower or Teddy R).
I’m just not sure how this group has allowed a bunch of radical leftist political ideology in our local schools.
My superintendent, HR Director, elementary curriculum director and tech director are staunch evangelical Christians. Most of our building level admins are as well. I would say our teacher group is probably 70/30 conservative/liberal split. We have maybe 5 of 300 teachers who could remotely be considered “woke”. And most of the 30% liberal are Indiana liberals (so just to the right of Eisenhower or Teddy R).
I’m just not sure how this group has allowed a bunch of radical leftist political ideology in our local schools.
My no-pic wife taught first grade for the past 16 years. She had a classroom library that was literally thousands of books most of which she bought. She had more books in her room than the media center did. She taught kids not just how to read but how to love to read. And all of that is past tense. They took the one aide for her grade level last year and let the first-grade teachers know that class sizes would increase by a third this year. After 34 years, my wife said that was enough and retired. If they had come to her and told her she had to catalog all the books in her room, she'd have laughed in their faces.
I absolutely believe him. He’s 100% right.
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The four day thing is already starting in some places in Iowa. I agree….it’s going to be a shock for many….but we made our bed already…time to lay in it….
You have elementary teachers in Florida who have been told to remove all their books period…This is what MAGA America looks like.
I don’t blame teachers at all….these nuts run for school board to push their crazy views instead of actually being a responsible parent…maybe it’s not always the school and teachers fault eh? We quite literally don’t pay them enough to deal with the BS.
It's much worse than having no idea. He has chosen to believe that the mission statement of public schools is to indoctrinate, groom, and convince kids to become gay or trans. If they use gullible morons to help them destroy public education, they will have more gullible morons to sell things to and vote for them in the future.
Or be blatantly racist like the Dem's Minnesota Federation of Teachers and Minnesota Public Schools. This should really help your cause. LOL!
It's her classroom. Of course she has to have all of those books approved. She probably bought most of them. My wife bought almost every book in her room. No way it's shenanigans.
One day would be planning. The other 4 would extend by 2 hours.
I've seen it work it's way through a district I was pretty familiar with. Teachers are feeling trapped, thus leaving the profession. Some think the way to teach is to just show love & affection. It's the easy way out.
Yep there's a teacher shortage in Iowa, Florida, Texas, and the rest of the country because Minnesota' teacher union just instituted an unpopular policy.
Hyperbolic for sure, but you recognize the truth in it. You have been brainwashed into thinking a substantial percentage of teachers are political activists and that schools are indoctrinating kids regarding sexuality. It's an intentional effort to undermine support for public schools and it's working. You're a pawn.
Kimmie is working on this, right? She’s bulking up the teacher base, right?
When your white guilt puts you in a spot of being white and racist against white people, you probably are a bitch.
* and by probably I mean you are.
* and by probably I mean you are.
No, no, no.... totally cool to be making hiring and firing decisions off representation and not merit..... totally cool.
She had a couple sentences in that entire post that touched on anything that would be considered political. The rest of it was pretty much spot on.
Do you change the working conditions for the positive? Duh.
This. Exactly. Even the Republican parents in my school, who know I’m a democrat know I don’t talk politics. It’s just a ridiculous thing for a teacher to do, especially in these charged up times. Seriously, probably the parent who I interact with the most is a MAGA. Big time.
It is so tiresome to respond to people who think they know about classroom settings that have never worked in one.
Which grade was the last one you passed? How long ago was that?
What the hell do you pretend to know about an educational setting?
Why don’t people from your POV enter the profession? You know, provide a balanced education…
I honestly do NOT think that the VAST majority of teachers are doing any grooming, indoctrinating, politicizing or pushing CRT to kids.
Do I think there’s a very tiny group of “teachers” who for whatever reason I won’t attempt to fathom have come into the profession with a mindset that’s not appropriate nor positive and has been formed by their own life experiences in school? Yes.
Like I said - a tiny number, but with social media being so powerful these problem people are being portrayed as an outsize number and are being given power that has harmed the entire profession.
I wish teachers would be given jobs in schools where they were safe, strongly supported by Administrators and informed and involved School Boards who don’t treat THEIR employers- parents and taxpayers-like the enemy.
And they need to be paid.
Do I think there’s a very tiny group of “teachers” who for whatever reason I won’t attempt to fathom have come into the profession with a mindset that’s not appropriate nor positive and has been formed by their own life experiences in school? Yes.
Like I said - a tiny number, but with social media being so powerful these problem people are being portrayed as an outsize number and are being given power that has harmed the entire profession.
I wish teachers would be given jobs in schools where they were safe, strongly supported by Administrators and informed and involved School Boards who don’t treat THEIR employers- parents and taxpayers-like the enemy.
And they need to be paid.
