All Teachers Fired at Underperforming School in Rhode Island

To the best of my knowledge it's that way nationwide. Not for nothing, but board certified doctors earn more than those who are not board certified in their specialty. It's the same thing with teachers. Like it or not, we are highly trained professionals and we deserve to be fairly compensated for the work we do. Nobody goes into education to get rich.

Student results? LOL How about we start basing trucker pay on a preplanned, computer generated guesstimate. S0 instead of $ .39 a mile you are now getting $20 an hour. But it's not based on your actual drive time it's based on how long Google maps says the trip should take. So if there is inclement weather, construction, or an accident you are screwed. It's kind of the same thing.

 

Since you seem to have a reasonable amount of knowledge about the feild, and since I'm planning on going to school to be a teacher, I had a few questions.

1. Student teaching- Do the student teachers ever get a chance to teach, or is it all grunt work and paper grading?

2. Do I have to apply for a student teaching position, or will I be assigned?

3. Finally, after school and looking for a position - What states are reccommended as far as avoiding the whole "creationism vs. evolution" debate, other than my homestate of PA? I ask cause I'm gonna be a history teacher, not a science teacher, and I just don't want to deal with this issue.

 

I am so sorry your children had to experience that! Unfortunately, there are bad teachers and bad schools; and good children suffer because of it. There is no excuse. I wish there were some systemic change, an overhaul, so that never happens again. NCLB has just made things worse in my opinion.

Schools get more state and federal funding for each special education student. So children who may be C/D students sometimes get 'classified' as special needs and put into a special class. That way the school gets more money. BUT the test scores for the special classes go up because there are kids there who don't belong. Is that right? No! Do I condone that? No! Unfortunately there is a lot of politics that goes on in education. That's what happens when politicians and the public demand that students test better. It becomes all about the test.

 

Thanks, CountryAngel. I'm hoping to land a position in OH (YAY outta PA!!). I know about the grunt work and paper grading, and I'm prepared for it. What I'm looking forward to is the lecture portion. What can I say, I'm needy and require being the center of attention. And unfortunately, my life isn't screwed up enough to be a stand-up comedian.

A friend of mine taught biology briefly in Arkansas or Missouri, or one of those religous states. She lost her job over the "creationism vs. evolution" thing, since she refused to teach just creationism. Personally, I'm a history type, and hope to never have to deal with this.