From What I see here on Yahoo answers I thin teachers are over paid?

Question

How can we reward good teachers with raises and restrict income or discpoline teachers who just are not teaching?

Yahoo answers expouses that many of the world are just not being taught at schools.

Answer 1

Yahoo answers has absolutely nothing to do with bad teachers. It's strictly the students. It's very obvious to me that students are too lazy to do their own homework so they hook to the internet and "yahoo" their way through the school coursework. One day these same people will go to college possibly. Then they'll "yahoo" their way through again. When the "real world" kicks in and there's a job to be done it'll not be done appropriately or adequately. I know of dozens of people in the workforce who simply donot know how to do their jobs.

Yahoo is an easyout for students to get homework done without the student putting for much effort.

Answer 2

It's not exactly the teachers' faults that people aren't being taught at schools. Many states, counties, and districts have curriculum set up that the teachers HAVE TO follow. Schools are becoming more "standardized" with the use of standardized tests to measure how good students are doing and the teachers literally have to "teach the test" which severely limits what sorts of things they end up teaching.

Another problem is lazy students that don't really want to learn or just do enough to get by.

Teachers are in charge of 15-25 kids EVERY DAY and you say they are overpaid?
I think that is crazy.

Answer 3

Obviously your teachers need to be disciplined for not teaching you well. Your spelling and composition are deplorable.

Poor teachers are disciplined or not rehired. Tenured teachers are the problem. Good teachers are rewarded (in more ways than monetary). But none of this is really your problem. It's a system problem bigger than you, so why do you focus on self-improvement, better your skills, get your butt back in school (English classes are my suggestion.)

*EDIT TO KAYBEE BELOW ME*
You are out of your mind if you think that teachers only work NINE months out of the year! Teacher's summers are filled with seminars and professional development activities in preparation for the next school year. And during those NINE months, teachers (when you figure in planning and paper grading and meetings - work about 60 hours a week!) The 3 months off spew is a bunch of venomous crap.

Answer 4

I'm responding here to Kaybee...

9 months of work...well let's add it up, shall we?

I go to work at 7 am and I am teaching until 230. Then I keep kids after for extra help until 330. Then I go home and do three or four hours a night of grading and planning for the next day. That puts us at 730pm. That's a twelve hour day. Times 5 days...that's a 60 hour work week. I get paid for 35 hours of that.

Now...let's add in there back to school nights, school dances that are chaperoned, parent conferences, parent phone calls, after school meetings, duties during the day...you get the idea.

After all this work that I do, I still don't make enough to pay all of my bills. I have to work a second job for at least 12-14 hours a week to make ends meet.

Don't tell me I'm over paid. Not until you've walked a mile in my shoes.



Now...with all of that said...I love, love, love my job. I wouldn't have it any other way. If I have to eat Ramen noodles and boxed Mac and Cheese for the rest of my life, well at least I'm doing something I love.

Answer 5

If I was paid $5 an hour for each of my 125 students that would amount to $625 a day. I am under contract for 186 days a year. So $625 x 186 = $116,250. I don't even make half that after 30 years of teaching. I pay MY babysitter $10 an hour, imagine my salary if I got paid babysitting wages.

Please don't tell me I am overpaid.

Answer 6

In my school district, teachers with Tenure earn $70K a year...now that is for NINE months of work, not 12!

Keep that in mind when you pity the underpaid teachers. They also have one of the best health and benefit packages on the planet.

Unions protect some school districts so that inept teachers are protected. The ONLY way we can reward those teachers who are genuinely achieving good results teaching and punish those who perform poorly would be for the school districts or at the STATE level, set and ENFORCE strict standards they must follow.

Enforcement is the prob. Teachers who are only in it for the money and leave the building with the kids every day are going to remain untouched in a field where dedication is measured by money not successes.

You will never hear teachers say they don't care if little Johnny learns, but truth is, some don't. It's a job whereby if they do a bad one, nothing bad happens to them.

Answer 7

I agree that Yahoo answers shows the lack of education many participants have. Some of the questions and answers is due to not proofing and/or typing too fast. I think good teachers should be rewarded. Its the bad ones that should be done away with.

Answer 8

I'll tell you- i really as a parent of 3 like the idea of the voucher system. This way i can choose where my kids go to school ( instead of the state getting the money for the local schools ) and this way schools, teachers,etc. will really have to step it up to compete with their competition! I know kids have to do the work to learn, but we need more teachers that really enjoy what they do and come up with fun creative ways to teach our children! Unions- not sure about, i work in a school and i hate that we have a pay scale / i wish we would get paid for how we work , because there are so many there that slide through the day and just don't care. This way they would really also have to compete to get the higher dollar and i sure you would see a difference!

Answer 9

I'm not really sure what you're saying, mostly because "thin" is not a verb (at least not one that makes sense in your sentence), and "expouses" isn't a word. Perhaps you should remove the two-by-four from your own eye before you start trying to make a reference to the splinter in someone else's.

Answer 10

LOL!
I thin you may have just proved that.
Don't you hate when that happens?