I'm sure that we have all had a lazy teacher when we were in school. The kind of teacher that sits at their desk and they never get up for anything. You wonder what their feet look like and you also wonder how tall they are. The type of teacher that gives crossword puzzles as an assignment or give their students book work while they listen to their iPod or take a nap. They never teach their students anything. Most students like teachers like this because they don't have to do much work and everything is easy but are these teachers really helping their students by being lazy? The answer to this question is NO. I recently took the ACT and I saw a lot of science and math questions that I had no idea about. I blame my teachers for this because they did not do their job correctly. My English teacher was the only person who prepared me for the test and I thank him dearly.
There is so much that students need to learn no matter what grade they are in and they cannot go to the next grade without knowing certain things. Math and Science are very important subjects and teachers should try their very best to teach these subjects instead of allowing their students to teach themselves. Most teachers don't like to teach because they might be too tired or they feel that their students won't pay them any attention. So why do teachers become teachers if they aren't dedicated to teach? I have personally came to the conclusion that teachers only become teachers for the money and they could care less if their students achieve or not. Now don't get me wrong. There are a lot of dedicated teachers but there are alot of careless teachers as well. This needs to stop. How will the children of the future do something positive when they become adults if they are not educated well. The lack of dedicated teachers could be the result of the increasing student drop out rate. Tell me how you feel about careless teachers. {I have nothing against teachers at all. I just have a problem when there are teachers who don't care about their students and they don't teach at all.}
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"...teachers only become teachers for the money..."
What money? There is very little money to be made as a teacher.
Teachers are getting burned out by pressures from administration to only worry about achievement tests because, thanks to the "No Child Left Behind" Act, the schools get money for higher rate of achievement. Plus kids are so spoiled now, teachers don't have much authority in the classroom. Most kids don't want to bother.
I have a few friends that are or were teachers. One quit because she was afraid of her students. Another is getting ready to because with such little authority, she isn't much more than a glorified babysitter. She got into the profession to teach, but she feels limited in that respect.
The education system is yet another one that is broken.
-Sonja :)
"...democracy works only when you vote. When you don't take the time to vote for the candidate you find the least offensive, you run the risk of electing the candidate you find the most offensive."
Where I live, which is Michigan, teachers are some of the highest paid teachers in the U.S. And I do understand that there are students who don't want to learn but there are so many that do want to learn and isn't fair to the student that the teacher just give up.
I didn't say it was right, just that I understand the problems in schools. Funding keeps getting cut, classrooms are packed, schools are being closed, there isn't enough money to go around for all the books,... all of these factor in to the breakdown of the US education system.
Is there a US system that is working properly right now? All of them keep getting band aids, but they all need to be shut down and restarted- welfare, health care, economy, political elections, and education.
-Sonja :)
"...democracy works only when you vote. When you don't take the time to vote for the candidate you find the least offensive, you run the risk of electing the candidate you find the most offensiv
Well how much do they get paid? And do they have masters or bachelors? Just curious to compare states educational systems.
I agree whole-heartedly that those teachers who do very little in terms of "teaching" are frustrating - probably as much for the other teacherse who ARE trying as they are for the students who want to learn. But I really don't think anyone goes into the business of teaching for the money, even in California and Connecticut, the two highest paying states. Alaska is pretty up there for pay, but then again, everything costs twice as much where I live. Sooo, I get paid in accordance with the cost of living. You have to take that into account, too. Your teachers may get paid a lot, but cost of living may also be high.
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"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."
-Buddha
If you have teachers who are doing those things you should be talking to your school counselor or your principal about it.
Susan
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A life not examined is a life not worth living.....plato
I have been quite lucky and have not experience careless teachers (usually it is the substitutes teachers). Then again I am about to graduate from a specialized high school and the careless teachers, no matter how much students like to complain, were not really as careless compared to other students.
Teachers who do not care about what you learn/ what they are teaching are very annoying and its sad especially to those students who care about their education. There's really nothing as a student that we can do.
I can agree with this about high school but my college is completely different. In high school the teachers didn't care but now they do. They want their students to learn and be successful. They know that thats what it is going to take to me successful. College will not just hand you opportunities you must earn them unlike high school.
A big problem is that high schools are sending out uneducated kids that can't get into college. Even if they do, they haven't been educated well enough to succeed in college.
Another thing is, a lot depends on the professor. Some just let students glide through their classes because low grades look bad on them too. This isn't nearly as much of a problem as the first, as I've only seen this in three of my classes. Some students didn't even show up or turn in homework but somehow we all passed with a D as the lowest score. It's frustrating when you work hard for a grade and find that people that didn't even try, that didn't even bother to show up, did fine too.
-Sonja :)
"Democracy works only when you vote. When you don't take the time to vote for the candidate you find the least offensive, you run the risk of electing the candidate you find the most offensive."
Just a note: I made more waitressing in high school per year than the average teacher salary in our state. The pay sucks, especially considering the education required and the amount of personal time and money required to teach in public schools.
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Where do you live???
Oklahoma. Our teachers just make about $10,000 per year above poverty level for one person.
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I will not live below the Mason Dixon line. So many southern states pay teachers almost nothing! And so many of their schools are in crisis....Hmm...Coincidence?
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I'd say so. I'm not exactly happy with my location either, but since my husband and I had our kids in previous marriages I'm stuck here for a while. I can't really afford to move out of state while in school anyways, but I probably will after I turn into Dr. Leslie. I would be so far in student loan debt if I were an out of state student! My totals are already ridiculous.
It's definitely not a coincidence. We have all of these "teacher initiative programs" that try to fix it. One consists of being paid an initial $5000 (if I recall correctly) if you contract the next few years of your life to working for a school teaching science or math. That's an extra $1250 per year average when you could be making much more working for a company or university.
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This country has the worst priorities. Our city, and the surrounding cities, built a new stadium. The other wasn't that old. This helps owners of hotels and restaurants more than anything. My county's school system has been closing down about three schools a year for the past few. They just sit there, unused. Meanwhile, classes are overpopulated and there isn't enough money for everyone to have books and proper supplies.
How about salaries? Teachers, nurses, doctors, and professors are some of the most important professionals for now and future generations. I don't understand the mindset of paying teachers so little and "celebrities" so much. There's something seriously wrong with the priorities in this country.
-Sonja :)
"Democracy works only when you vote. When you don't take the time to vote for the candidate you find the least offensive, you run the risk of electing the candidate you find the most offensive."
I agree. Another example of messed up priorities: our state is rennovating a place that's just a few years old so we can get an NBA team here, but the bridge next to the offramp has been inspected and documented as being in worse condition than some of the bridges in other states that collapsed last year. The state government won't shut it down and repair it because it will slow down trafffic. One inspector/reporter to the media said "It's not a matter of if it collapses, but when" on our local news. Seems like we'd want to rebuild the bridge so that people can actually make it to the arena safely, but that's not the case here.
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