Reply #9: Let's see ... let's take a troubled company, hire you to turn it around (in one year) [View All]

[zbdent]

and make its debts go away, and turn a huge profit ...

and your salary and benefits total about $7 an hour.

You think anybody would go for that? Essentially, that's what RWers are asking of teachers ...

They have to take all the crap that was absorbed by students from possibly bad teachers, and the students who are probably unwilling to put any effort into the learning process (come on, did you really like going to school when you were a kid? How many of these people complaining about the "overpaid teachers" attended school because they really wanted to be there instead of out playing in the yard or driving their nice car around?) and make them into honor roll students.

(and then, the "teachers pets" are attacked and beat up after school and actually being smart is frowned upon by the bullies)

And what thanks do the teachers get? Angry politicians blaming them for being in a school where nobody wants to be ... and being forced to take pay cuts, to boot.