Does the article take into account the time spent every night grading, writing lesson plans, and calling Johnnys mother about him farting in class? Does it take in to account the semi-weekly before and after school meeting and duties expected by a schools administration? The Weeks every summer used to stay certified to both the district and state? I wonder if they deduct the 100s of dollars most teachers spend buying their own supplies every year. Or is it just assuming that teaching is a 8-3 36 weeks a year deal?
As you can tell I am a teacher, and there is no job in the world that compares to it. I know, I spent 2 years working in an office as a computer tech while earning my aero engineering degree, which I used for a number of years before entering the school system. ( I found the engineering to be a bit repetative for my taste).
Teachin is one of the most contradictive jobs you coud imagine. It's like being a manager without the ability to fire any of your employees. Yet you are responsible for their performance.Its the only professional job I know of that you are given a 30 minute window each day to go to the bathroom. Also ever been at work and just zoned out for a few minutes? I bet you you have, and didnt worry that when you looked back up that the room was going to be on fire or any number of things you could get legally reemed for was going on. You have to be 100% there and on the ball every moment of every day, working with kids that, if your lucky are mildly intrested, and if your not are destructive bastards.
All this being said if you want better schools there are 3 basic things to do:
1. Smaller classes. Give me 16 kids and we'll get things done. Give me 35 and avoiding injurys will be more important.
2.Tracking: if you put all the kids in a homogenized group 40% will be bored, 20% are ok, and 40% will be lost.
3. Parent involvment: Parents that work with their kids are successful, those that use school for babysitting have kids that destroy the enviroment for everyone.
I think you would be suprised how many people have fairly high level clearances. Not very many of them are too valuable of a target because they only have information in very limited subject. 'Need to know' considerations.
So you're telling me that if I try to hack a website I shouldn't announce it before hand on cable tv? I don't think this says anything about the resistivness of wikipedia, perhaps a little about their admins viewing habits...
Actually the moon is a pretty static place. No air means no wind which means all the 'dust' stays where it is. Armstrongs original footprints should still be there (unless the lander wiped them out on take off.
It's as if consumers woke up and decided to start gaming again
Well lots of kids got new game systems this year. It takes a while to build a library, and summer jobs start in june...
Being a teacher I think I have a unique perspective on this. I'm sure that the online classes will work. Why? The students that are involved with the project are going to be the same ones that have parents that care and are active in their education. Time and time again I've found that to be the biggest factor in education. They would do better then the standard apathetic student sitting at home with a book and a candle.
I feel bad for the teachers however, this may be the thing that takes the few students wanting to learn out of a classroom. Often these kids are the ones that make teaching worth it for many of us.
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Does the article take into account the time spent every night grading, writing lesson plans, and calling Johnnys mother about him farting in class? Does it take in to account the semi-weekly before and after school meeting and duties expected by a schools administration? The Weeks every summer used to stay certified to both the district and state? I wonder if they deduct the 100s of dollars most teachers spend buying their own supplies every year. Or is it just assuming that teaching is a 8-3 36 weeks a year deal? As you can tell I am a teacher, and there is no job in the world that compares to it. I know, I spent 2 years working in an office as a computer tech while earning my aero engineering degree, which I used for a number of years before entering the school system. ( I found the engineering to be a bit repetative for my taste). Teachin is one of the most contradictive jobs you coud imagine. It's like being a manager without the ability to fire any of your employees. Yet you are responsible for their performance.Its the only professional job I know of that you are given a 30 minute window each day to go to the bathroom. Also ever been at work and just zoned out for a few minutes? I bet you you have, and didnt worry that when you looked back up that the room was going to be on fire or any number of things you could get legally reemed for was going on. You have to be 100% there and on the ball every moment of every day, working with kids that, if your lucky are mildly intrested, and if your not are destructive bastards. All this being said if you want better schools there are 3 basic things to do: 1. Smaller classes. Give me 16 kids and we'll get things done. Give me 35 and avoiding injurys will be more important. 2.Tracking: if you put all the kids in a homogenized group 40% will be bored, 20% are ok, and 40% will be lost. 3. Parent involvment: Parents that work with their kids are successful, those that use school for babysitting have kids that destroy the enviroment for everyone.
I think you would be suprised how many people have fairly high level clearances. Not very many of them are too valuable of a target because they only have information in very limited subject. 'Need to know' considerations.
So you're telling me that if I try to hack a website I shouldn't announce it before hand on cable tv? I don't think this says anything about the resistivness of wikipedia, perhaps a little about their admins viewing habits...
(j/k) re: parent.
how many kHz does a videophone need to work?
I think we should keep a few hundred lasers trained on the moon at all times... just in case. (cue background music)
Actually the moon is a pretty static place. No air means no wind which means all the 'dust' stays where it is. Armstrongs original footprints should still be there (unless the lander wiped them out on take off.
It's as if consumers woke up and decided to start gaming again
Well lots of kids got new game systems this year. It takes a while to build a library, and summer jobs start in june...
Being a teacher I think I have a unique perspective on this. I'm sure that the online classes will work. Why? The students that are involved with the project are going to be the same ones that have parents that care and are active in their education. Time and time again I've found that to be the biggest factor in education. They would do better then the standard apathetic student sitting at home with a book and a candle. I feel bad for the teachers however, this may be the thing that takes the few students wanting to learn out of a classroom. Often these kids are the ones that make teaching worth it for many of us.