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Originally Posted by tony286
Actually teachers work alot more than that. Papers get graded by themselves?
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When I was in high school in the 1970's I always applied to be a "teachers assistant" in my classes.
Guess what I did?
I graded the papers. And so did all the other teachers assistants during the different class periods.
Not saying that teachers don't stay after school an hour or two. They do.
My high school started at 8:30 a.m. I'm sure the teachers were there by 7 a.m. for that.
It let out each day at 2:15 p.m. I'm sure they stayed over an hour maybe two.
So if they were there in the teachers lounge having coffee at 7, then went to their classroom and got set up to go for first period...and let's say went home at 4 p.m.
How is that harder than any "normal" job?
Most people have to be on the road by 6:30 a.m. or so to get to work on time through traffic. Most of them don't get home until 6:30 p.m. or later according to traffic.
Teaching is a good profession. But the teachers unions should simply be illegal. All public sector unions should be.
This is a direct quote from the biggest liberal Democrat President of ALL times...Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters. Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable."