Comments on: The $78,000 Babysitting Job

By: Benjamin Hall

Benjamin Hall — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:28:53 +0000

i was also home schooled when i was younger and it is also a great weay to get your education.’”"

By: Mary Lynn Archibald

Mary Lynn Archibald — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:23:47 +0000

I DID quit after fifteen years, because I'd had it with rude kids and NO administrative support. I loved teaching, too, but the politics and insubordination and no respect at all for teachers were finally too much.

Teachers' unions have really messed it up, too, and membership for me was mandatory! Kinda like health care under Obama.

Check out George Will's article on teachers (and their unions) in Monday's Investor's Business Daily. Teacher/student ratio keeps going down, despite the union's ads to the contrary. (They even used incorrect grammar in their ad!)

By: Evelyn Reed

Evelyn Reed — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:15:16 +0000

Home Schooling is also nice since you got to always see your kids.*”-

By: Kaitlyn Rogers

Kaitlyn Rogers — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:44:02 +0000

Home Schooling is also nice since you got to always see your kids.-.,

By: Jack Carter

Jack Carter — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:40:45 +0000

Home Schooling is also nice since you got to always see your kids.,”

By: Luke Turner

Luke Turner — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:41:04 +0000

Home Schooling is also nice since you got to always see your kids.`:-

By: Lynda Tomory

Lynda Tomory — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:56:30 +0000

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By: Guang

Guang — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:01:37 +0000

Can we work together to form a new school with you, and any other parents who are willing to? http://forum.jdglobal.org/viewforum.php?f=33 http://jdglobal.org/contact.html

By: Theresa

Theresa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:20:49 +0000

Like me, you might go into teaching expecting to have fun, inspire kids, and teach them outside of the book, and instead, you'll end up having to teach test prep all the time because your school will close if test scores don't go up, and the minute you turn your back to give extra help or assistance to a struggling student, a different kid will leave a drawing of a penis on your desk.

But I guess that's my fault. I got a drawing of a penis on my desk because I didn't "inspire" them enough.

I went into the job for all the right reasons, but after getting no sufficient training or support from my administration, getting verbally beaten down by rude kids every day, and then getting torn apart in the media every day for problems that are way beyond a teacher's control, I'm ready to quit. I'm tired of being expected to have magic powers. Before I judge the Central Falls teachers too harshly, I'd like to know what the administration's role in the school's failure is. I think it's telling that I can't find any articles about the firings that interview STUDENTS. This decision is supposed to help them? Why aren't their voices being heard? Surely if their teachers were that bad, they would say something about it.

By: Iain

Iain — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:01:29 +0000

A key component of being good teacher is learning how to teach to your own weaknesses.