Re: Nationwide teacher shortage February 13, 2020 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 3,842 |
Re: Nationwide teacher shortage February 13, 2020 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,973 |
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twocents
same reason you can't get bus drivers. who wants to drives these frigging bastards around.
there is always something. the other day, somewhere in jersey I think, some guy just walked away from a minibus with 'speds'.
turns out he had no license.
bus company has been terminated.
you couldn't pay me enough to drive these creatures around.
Re: Nationwide teacher shortage February 14, 2020 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 5,634 |
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LoveToLurk
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freya
Why a hierarchy with special area teachers at the bottom? It isn't as if they have less education or more time on their hands. Sounds like a big CF designed to turn teachers against each other. Plus the addition of parents who don't parent and flip out when teachers try to have order in their classrooms. Ugh.
In my district, we were just seen as having the “easier” jobs. Specials class was where the kids went so the Important Teachers could have a break, and district office did nothing to combat that attitude. I guess they think that all these concerts and art shows and field days and literary nights just plan themselves.
Re: Nationwide teacher shortage February 20, 2020 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 1,979 |
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randomcfchick
Oh man. I may be a GenEd teacher, but the way specialists are being crapped on is another reason I'm leaving. Like all teachers, they're getting less and less time to get more and more done, but also a lot of teachers totally de-prioritize what kids learn at art/music/PE/tech! I know a teacher who routinely tries to keep kids from art or PE as either punishment for misbehavior or to re-do substandard work. Ridiculously disrespectful to the specialists. When I was subbing there was one school that was doing a small-group intervention system, and they were actually saddling specialists with reading or math groups a couple times per day. Ugh. Just no.
There's also the fact that the kid may need a change of scenery and a brain break. I've had kids come back from specialist period feeling better and are better able to re-do work or talk about what was bothering them.