America's education system

[kytwell 179]

Give me a break, Kytwell - and stop with your jibes. Anybody who does the work, deserves to make an income for it - not work for free. That's pure #######. By the way, many teachers do work extra time during the summer trying to get students who didn't pass the tests to pass them the second time. Now, I am done talking to your silly nonsense. Sorry you feel it necessary to constantly make fun of teachers.

They don't work for free. Maybe not where you are, but they are well compensated for a 10 9 month a year job. I'm not making fun of them. I am stating what we hear the majority of teachers say, "they do it for love the job." And I'm just bursting holes in that theory, they do it because they make more money in a 10 9 month a year job, than some do for a year round job. We don't hear them clamoring to work year round, even though it would benefit the children. When they go on strike, it's not about educating our youth better; it's for better pay, more benefits, etc, etc.

You constantly rail against the administrators, I rail against the teachers. It's their(teachers) job to educate within the parameters of: No Child Left Behind(Ted Kennedy-D)and the framework administrators have in place. My point is, do it or find another line of work, because it's obviously not about the love of the job. And I have nothing against the ones seeking more money, but we need more teachers who are happy to be doing it for the love of the job and their reward(in addition to their paycheck) is in the satisfaction of knowing they are making America a better place---just like soldiers, police, firefighters, paramedics, etc.

[Golden Gate 530]

46% of teachers quit within the first five years of teaching. Teacher retention is very difficult. There must be reasons for this.

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Edited October 24, 2011 by Golden Gate

[kytwell 179]

The top reasons people listed for leaving teaching were retirement (20 percent), family reasons (16 percent), pregnancy/child rearing (14 percent), wanting a better salary and benefits (14 percent) and wanting to pursue a different kind of career (13 percent.)

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