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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MIB: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Tahna Los: [qb]One Word. UNIONS. Up here in Ontario that is. They are very ignorant about the fact that there are many unqualified teachers in our public education system, and any attempt to remove one of them results in EXTREME opposition. Union Solidarity forever. The Fights between the Unions and the Government are causing all sorts of problems. I've heard a remark that Ontario is the only place where Teachers are unionized.[/qb][/QUOTE] Please excuse my spelling. It's genetic. LOL :D Possibly. My mom is part of the school faculty down here in Georgia, and union is a 4 letter word down here. The lack of one is causing huge problems down here. On the Austin Roads show (A local talk radio show) A nurse called up and started bitching on how teachers have it so easy. She gave examples like: (1) A teacher's work day is only from 8 AM to 4 PM. (2) A teacher gets 3 months off every year with pay. A couple of minutes later an actual teacher called up and roasted the nurse alive. A teachers day does NOT go from 8 AM to 4 PM. Teachers down here usally have to get to school by about 7 AM to prepare for classes and they usally stay untill 5 to 5:30 PM to grade papers and so forth. I don't have to mention that many teachers have to bring there work home with them too. The teacher that was talking in paticular stated that she sometimes had to take her work home with her and continue working on it untill 10:30 PM. This is something I can confirm because my mother sometimes has to do that. Then there is this bullshit that teachers get 3 months off every summer. Here, it's only a 8 weeks and a couple of days. Teachers DON'T get payed for this time. Also our Govonor, Roy Barns, in all his infinite wisdom got rid of teacher tenure and shot down a proposal for raising a teachers pay by 10%. Also, a teachers performance in his/her occupation is measured by his/her students grades. This totally screws the teacher over and I'll tell you why. Should a teacher suffer the misfortune of getting a class that is composed of idiots and ass holes who have no interest in learning he/she will look bad because of it. Unfortunatly, classes like that aren't that hard to find in Georgia. One more thing. You guys are gonna love this. My local newspaper, The Augusta Chronicle, did a little article on a teachers salery. It compared the salery of a teacher to those of a store clerk, burger flippers at McDonalds and other low position jobs. This made it look like teachers have a kick ass salery. In turn, it supported the idea that teachers have it so easy. On an semi-related topic, if you come down to Georgia you will notice that very few schools are 2 or more stories. In Augusta, it appears that these pre-fab type schools are popular. The problem is that these schools are built so that everything is on one floor. This makes the school wide and......well....large. When overpopulation becomes a problem, the school doesn't have any room to expand. If they would only make their schools 2 or 3 stories tall, not only would the school take up less land, they would have room to expand if need be. I also like to say that I've seen some of these prefab schools. They look like rundown offices from the 80s with very few of the roof tiles unstained. I won't even describe the bathrooms to you. DAMN IT! I'm being long winded again aaren't I? I'll stop now. :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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