Has Your School District Given Your Teachers Their COLAs? (assessment, graduate, paying)
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Yes I can see it now. Yes the height of professionalism. Now back to the why are teachers not respected thread.
Since we seem to be merging the two, I think the teacher's union is a big part of why teachers aren't treated like professionals. Unions are blue collar. You don't, usually, see unionized doctors, lawyers or engineers.
Since we seem to be merging the two, I think the teacher's union is a big part of why teachers aren't treated like professionals. Unions are blue collar. You don't, usually, see unionized doctors, lawyers or engineers.
And maybe if teachers didn't have a union we could make a doctor's salary, but it won't never happen. Wow you gave me the inspiration to start a new thread just because these topics seem to be merging back and forth.
Since we seem to be merging the two, I think the teacher's union is a big part of why teachers aren't treated like professionals. Unions are blue collar. You don't, usually, see unionized doctors, lawyers or engineers.
At this point in time and on this topic we are in FULLLLLLL agreement.
And maybe if teachers didn't have a union we could make a doctor's salary, but it won't never happen. Wow you gave me the inspiration to start a new thread just because these topics seem to be merging back and forth.
Without a unioin, districts could get rid of lousy teachers and replace them with good ones who would negotiate their salary coming in, like other professions do.
Without a unioin, districts could get rid of lousy teachers and replace them with good ones who would negotiate their salary coming in, like other professions do.
This is why it is so hard to fire a teacher. How do you define a lousy teacher, especially a teacher who comes to work on time, not molesting kids, scores are not high, but on average lower than the teachers on his grade level in the district? It has become comical, especially when the burden of proof is never proven against a teacher, even when that teacher has done some gross misconduct or inappropriate things with his or her students. It just makes u go back to what the unions are there for--JOB PROTECTION, SALARY, BENEFITS, AND FIGHT TO KEEP YOUR JOB EVEN WHEN YOU ARE ACCUSED AND THE EVIDENCE PROVES YOU ARE GUILTY.
I feel bad for the kids in your district. They don't deserve this.
You say you aren't getting any pay increase, but you don't want a union. You say you put in 12 hours a day, but you they are cutting your pay. What do you expect? They'll stick it to you because you'll put up with it.
This is why I mentioned earlier about "working to the rule". If you do that once or twice, it doesn't really affect the students. What you are attempting to do is make the point that you putting in many more hours than those for which you are paid. So many think that it all gets done in a 7.5 hour contract day. In an earlier post, you mentioned that you could never get what you needed to get done if you showed up and left at the designated contract times. This is why so many teachers get taken advantage of. They aren't willing to step up and stand up for themselves.
For example, where I live, elected officials listen and respond to the firefighter's union. The firefighters contribute a lot to campaigns and get people elected. Elected officials probably don't feel like they owe you anything. In fact, I hate to say it, but you are an easy target.
You say you aren't getting any pay increase, but you don't want a union. You say you put in 12 hours a day, but you they are cutting your pay. What do you expect? They'll stick it to you because you'll put up with it.
This is why I mentioned earlier about "working to the rule". If you do that once or twice, it doesn't really affect the students. What you are attempting to do is make the point that you putting in many more hours than those for which you are paid. So many think that it all gets done in a 7.5 hour contract day. In an earlier post, you mentioned that you could never get what you needed to get done if you showed up and left at the designated contract times. This is why so many teachers get taken advantage of. They aren't willing to step up and stand up for themselves.
For example, where I live, elected officials listen and respond to the firefighter's union. The firefighters contribute a lot to campaigns and get people elected. Elected officials probably don't feel like they owe you anything. In fact, I hate to say it, but you are an easy target.
You are 100% right, and elementary teachers seem to get taken advantage of the most. We are requireD to teach middle school IN THE 4TH AND 5TH GRADES that some of our students aren't developmentally ready for, and when the middle school teachers complain about us elementary school teachers not working hard enough, I throw up my hands and tell them, come on down to elementary school, and you would have a very different perspective. I have subbed long term in all middle school grades, and the big difference between middle and elEmentary students is one key word----HORNINESS.
You say you aren't getting any pay increase, but you don't want a union. You say you put in 12 hours a day, but you they are cutting your pay. What do you expect? They'll stick it to you because you'll put up with it.
This is why I mentioned earlier about "working to the rule". If you do that once or twice, it doesn't really affect the students. What you are attempting to do is make the point that you putting in many more hours than those for which you are paid. So many think that it all gets done in a 7.5 hour contract day. In an earlier post, you mentioned that you could never get what you needed to get done if you showed up and left at the designated contract times. This is why so many teachers get taken advantage of. They aren't willing to step up and stand up for themselves.
For example, where I live, elected officials listen and respond to the firefighter's union. The firefighters contribute a lot to campaigns and get people elected. Elected officials probably don't feel like they owe you anything. In fact, I hate to say it, but you are an easy target.
Agggh if only teaching was like the real world of working PROFESSIONALS. Individual salary determinants and the ability to negotiate your working conditions or get fired or find another job. We want to be considered Professionals but want to have the AFT strong arm as a Union for us. Or the NEA collectively yell for us. How many PROFESSIONS are so unionized and have their collective lives negotiated and protected for them?
Oh well back to the Why Teachers Aren't Respected thread.
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