It's official - sweat shop teachers for Florida

[malaise]

contracts for one year - forever.
Why would anyone teach??
How did these fuckers win states?

[greymattermom]

1. teacher shortage

it will happen, sooner than they think. especially when florida real estate picks up.

[rzemanfl]

4. "When Florida real estate picks up?" Half of Tampa Bay is

underwater on their mortgages.

[bluestateguy]

6. A teacher shortage would be the only way to realistically reverse that policy

It's simple economics. If there is scarcity in a certain profession, but a high demand, you have no choice but to raise salaries and benefits.

[Drale]

2. Its time for everyone who actually contributes to society

to leave Florida, lets see how long they last with just the income generated by the retired. Disney World can't supply revenue for the whole state, especially with republicans habits of giving huge tax breaks to corporations.

[rzemanfl]

3. $70 million dollars on a campaign? I think the forces of good

should run only one campaign ad. "This is our only campaign ad, if you see others, they are lies funded by corporations and special interest groups." Use the rest of the money like Hamas would, feed the hungry, provide medical care to people who can't afford it,etc.

[jpak]

5. This will result in a revolving door of poorly qualified teachers that will come and go

Schools will have no continuity in faculty

The kids will suffer

yup

[Snoutport]

7. i rely on my mentor teacher all the time.

I'm on my third year of probation and if it wasn't for my mentor teacher, i NEVER would have figured out all this paperwork. Sometimes it takes me half an hour just to find the right FORM!! I can go to her and she has a printed copy in my hand in 15 seconds.

teaching is a difficult job and experienced teachers are necessary for any type of success.

[jpak]

8. yup - chaos

n/t

[Snoutport]

12. and a generation of kids that will get cheated

:0(

[MadMaddie]

13. That's what they want

They want to shut the doors to public schools.....see they don't work because they are failing. Then the Repugs privatize everything....

[titaniumsalute]

9. I'm married to a Florida public school teacher

We moved here two years ago from Ohio. Public schools in Ohio and not half bad. But schools in FL are awful. We are in the process now of pulling our 6 year old out of 1st grade t transfer to my wife's elementary school. The teacher is a complete moron. Sends home wrong words for spelling tests, gives test on wrong days from her own agenda sent home, forgets to send home homework folders, etc. My wife called the Counselor and was told that this new teacher is "nuts."

The problem is there's no real incentive to go into teaching unless you are in it for the kids and don't really need an income to live off of. The only way my wife teaches is because I have a pretty good gig with decent HH income. She's a very well respected teacher but right now she's considering a PhD and teaching college. That means another good teacher leaving a public school. Her school lost 9 teachers last year to the private sector or private schools because of shitty pay and benefits.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. They all have this wrong idea that people are wired to take on these kind of abuses,

because they live for do-gooding.

There's a term they need to get accustom to: Burn out.

[titaniumsalute]

15. Your not kidding

although I don;t think my wife feels burt out as much as she feels like the school is really screwing the pooch on what it should be doing. She teaches music, choir, etc. and wants to really make a difference. Music, art and phys ed teachers are treated as glorified babysitters mostly. They have the same schooling, the same education grad degrees, etc. as any other course. Yes the three R's are important but heaven forbid kids get creative with art and music and do something physical in Phys Ed.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Welcome to DU

And so much in the tech world requires the appreciation of art. Video gaming for instance. It would help if the kids acquire the basics in elementary school.

[glinda]

10. To your last sentence. They most likely really didn't.

[malaise]

14. Very true

Howard Dean should have been retained