Utterly Meaningless

“Attention, American citizens: Every time you fill out a job application, balance your checkbook, or simply read the song titles on the back of your favorite CD, you should get down on your knees and thank whatever God you believe in for the fact that he blessed you with teachers.”

If we’re going into the “whatever God you believe in” area, howscome the reference is only to “he?”

Yeah, I know that wasn’t the point of reading this on an empty stomach (thanks for the warning), but it was the shortest bit I could respond to.

Now I’ll go eat lunch.

Don’t worry! I’m *sure* the teacher’s frustration, resentment, political beliefs and biases are in no way influencing how the students are taught.

I’m finding it difficult to pull together a concise comment on this dribble. If only my teachers had given me the tools to write, speak and think critically instead of making sure I could count change at McDonald’s!

i fisked it. I had to.
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This teacher in a fit a rage over lack of proper appreciation states the following:

“Attention, American citizens: Every time you fill out a job application, balance your checkbook, or simply read the song titles on the back of your favorite CD, you should get down on your knees and thank whatever God you believe in for the fact that he blessed you with teachers.”
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So here we have it folks. Those who incarcerate our children for 12 years and extort massive amounts of money from the public treasury in order to teach us “our place” think we belong on our knees.

Kneeling is the position to show respect for gods, the position reserved for submission, the position prior to beheading or execution, and the position of white house interns.

These are the people who insist on “raising our children”.

Prior anon post by Gene

There’s an interesting article about teacher pay here:

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It’s published by the Hoover Institute, which is a conservative thinktank. I’m nowhere near conservative but I think this article points out the most salient arguments to rebut the typical teacher claim that their pay is “too low”.

Reading the article at educationtext.org reminded me of a conversation with an acquaintance who works as a 6th grade teacher. The conversation is unrelated to this, but she had mentioned that she makes $200/day. That puts her at $36k which is a good amount more than anything I’ve ever made in a year even when I was working two jobs or pulling 14-hour days admining for a Sr. VP of a large hospital. We have a friend who puts his life on the line every day he goes to work as a police officer that doesn’t even make $35k.

Thanks for the post, and the link in the comment!

I should thank a teacher for those things? Why? My mother taught me how to do all those things. And I went to public school.

What amazing logic this author employs. Truly unique.

Great fisk Chris. I thought the author was female. Are you sure it was a guy?

I wonder why they didn’t sign it.

It was signed in the dead tree edition, and I think it was a he. However, that secion of the paper got used as floor covering yesterday when I changed the oil in my car, so I can’t check.

In reality though, teachers, for the most part, are not the problem with public education. I know this because my colleagues and I spend countless hours in staff-development workshops, where we learn to incorporate a variety of student needs and learning styles into our instruction.

“I know this …”??? This is, for me, the biggest hoot of the whole article. The vast majority of those “countless hours” are a complete and utter waste of time. Ask any public school teacher how “beneficial” the average inservice is.

He does make a valid point though. Most people don’t care about education (of their own chilren or others). The rest of us homeschool.