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Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave
"This week's film blogs have been left aghast as Mike Judge's grotesque fictional energy drink Brawndo from the movie Idiocracy became a reality. To recap: Fox wouldn't support a film about Brawndo, the energy drink that destroys plants, debases the human race, and makes those who drink it 'win at yelling' but they are now putting wholehearted support behind the actual drink?" And if you haven't seen Idiocracy, you are missing out. It is the smartest stupid movie I've seen. Whoever did production design on that thing deserves an Oscar.
> Teachers work 12-16 hours a day... yet a "class" day is only 6 hours (after you subtract breaks, locker time, lunch etc..).
> Where is that other 6-10 hours going? Consider that...
They're going on purely in your head. If you think that any teachers work from 7am until 11pm more than once in their entire career you must be deranged.
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Yes, but on the other hand, they get at least three months of vacation every year, massive retirement benifits (in PDX some have retired with 105% of their working income, thanks to the PERS system) and if none of that floats your boat, there is always plenty of child molesting to do on the order of about 500 to 1000 cases per year.
Really, I don't care to hear teachers cry about their suckie jobs, long hours and crap pay. I bust my ass more hours than any teacher ever will, but nobody calls me a "hero" or suggest that I should be revered in some way. I don't get a cushy pension at the end. I don't get to keep my job based on nothing more than the fact that I've been here for a long time.
My opinion is that if you've gone into teaching at any point in the last 30+ years with anything but an expectation to make an average salary or less and work with thankless brats, then you are as deluded as people who continue to smoke with full knowledge of the negative results of it. At that point, they're no different than the starving artist who knows that you can't really make a living on art alone (unless they're the lucky tenth of a percent), but they somehow think they deserve more, everyone owes them more and that they're some how on a higher moral plain than the rest, because of their "career" choice.
Its better paid work and runs far better chances of turning out good kids. There are plenty of parents without the time but with PLENTY of cash who would love that sort of service being offered where you live... why not do it?
As for me, I'm a developer - make more money and have less job insecurity doing my current job. I would argue that people with lots of cash and no time haven't that good a chance turning out good kids - it's spending time with your kids and demanding achievement that makes the kids good.
Socializing can be done at the mall, without forcing it to be done through age segregated classes.
Forced socialization with random people is nasty but helpful. To me that's half the point of HS these days.
If you think that full time teaching is great, you should put together a curriculum for the home student, and sell it.
Why does this have to be home schooling? Teaching kids is important - we should pay the teachers enough that they don't need a second job. Oh, and let them keep discipline - when a kid goes to the office, he should dread it.
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