I have spoken to many people who have lately joined the teaching "profession" because it allows them to have a lifestyle they enjoy for 13 weeks a year i.e windsurfing, horseriding, etc with the only inconvenience being "snotty nosed kids" for the remaining 39 weeks. They take their own kids on 4 week holidays in the summer because they want to spend "precious" time with their off spring. Its just a job and it has good perks.I dont resent them. I appreciate my friends honesty. I just resent most teachers hypocrisy about "caring for their pupils". I know their are many teachers (probably most) who joined the profession because they cared but,get real - what are you in it for 5 or 10 years later? From an ex-acedemic who sees the real "New England", not a pretty place for teacher or pupil.
2006-11-28 10:34:24 · 8 answers · asked by rothers41 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
My brother is a head teacher and let me tell you that for 52 weeks of the year I have to struggle to see him! If he is not in school teaching, he is running a fishing lake for under privileged kids at weekends, running construction classes through the "holidays" so that "his" kids have a chance of a career, marking papers, setting exams, parents evenings, crossbow classes, with events across the UK, evening classes so kids can catch up and probably a lot of other things that I don't know about!
Yes he is well paid, and so he bloody should be! The first and last holiday he actually took was in 2002...he started teaching in 1972!
2006-11-28 10:43:30 · answer #1 · answered by puffy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok! What's your point? You're complaining about nothing that's particularly unique or controversial.
You say you resent "most" teacher's hypocrisy, about caring for their students. How many teachers do you actually know? I too, am an ex-academic (not acedemic, as you spelled it... by the way, for an ex-academic, you're spelling and punctuation is abysmal) and I know exactly one teacher... my niece.
Are "most" teachers in it because they care for their students, or just for the money? Who Cares?? The real concern should be, are they competent? Are they qualified to teach? Can they inspire, or are they boring? I would rather have a competent teacher who's in it for the money, than an incompetent hack who just loves her job and her students to death.
Frankly, if a person isn't doing the job for the salary and perks, I'm immediately suspicious, and am inclined to question their true intentions.
2006-11-28 11:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hear-hear! Agree totally. If these bleeding heart teachers are so caring they should do it for the love, not the money. It's not as if it takes any skill to say 'open your books at page..' or 'you at the back!.. pay attention!.. see me behind after school' while they skulk off to the staffroom for a smoke and a cuppa coffee.
Of course the holidays are too long and the wages too high. Seen teachers on last day of term going totally apesh*t drunk, wrecking pubs, causing nuisance to general public etc
Besides what do we need an educated articulate workforce for-only creates trouble and division in society? Get the chidren back down the mineshafts and up the chimneys 16 hours a day and work for their living's what I say!
Yours sincerely,
Rt Hon. B'stard (Min of Education)
2006-11-28 11:00:08 · answer #3 · answered by troothskr 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it sounds like you are jealous but then again maybe you have a point short hours good pay long holidays good pension for as you put it teaching "snotty nosed kids" not bad considering people who do other jobs get paid poorly long hours 3 weeks holiday a year (if they are lucky) and jump up d***head for a boss you have just pushed me into training to become a teacher thank you very much
2006-11-28 10:44:18 · answer #4 · answered by ironstu3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure the money is important but I have friends who are teachers, and their day isn't just from 9 to 3, it's all the administration, marking, planning for lessons and other stuff which gets done "out of hours". Yeah the holidays are cool, but I've got to say, it's not enough for me to want to become a teacher with the hassle that comes with it. No way.
2006-11-28 10:43:47 · answer #5 · answered by geoffhillyer 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dunno they sound rich, not like 'normal' teachers who whilst not rich, are not as poor as they make out generally having had lots of help with mortgages and pensions. I have had teachers sneer at me at parties, saying 'oh i'm so glad I don't just push papers around' (this is honestly true) to which teh only answer really is 'I'm so glad I don't earn 20K a year'...
I don't know much about teaching, but it is the profession of lecturing that seems to attract the most indignity these days. Study for 10 years and you too can earn 20K a year, whilst your student pay 3K in fees, which is spent on what? not your blooming pay packet clearly!
2006-11-28 10:51:52 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-05-22 23:28:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well actually---isn't that true of most professions---
the money...
2006-11-28 10:36:25 · answer #8 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋