Here's one that will frost most of you teacher "supports" rears!

Just because a person is called a "teacher" doesn't make them any smarter or better then the average guy at his own job is. The only reason so many of you think a teacher is so fantastic and underpaid is most likely because of the love of you own children.

As a parent, you just can't bare the thought that your kids are being trained for 8 hours of the day by just some average human being. Your hopes are high for little Johnny so you want your kids to always be in the best hands available. You do everything that is possible to see that your kid has "supper teacher" at their side to teach them what you failed to learn when went to school. You hope that the more you pay them; the better off your kid will be when they grow up.

It always amazes me how teachers and other school related jobs use the kids for their own personal gains. Have you every though of how we got to where we are now? Teachers have never been paid "high wages" since they started teaching in this county. Teachers took on the profession of teaching because they really cared about kids. It was never considered to be a high paying position until recent years when they became so strongly unionized.

It's quickly become all about money for the modern day school teacher now. I live among a "nest" of teachers, and I get to see what they are really like when they are not baby sitting the kids. These same people that some of you hold to be almost god-desses, are really no different then the average person is. From what I have observed in the past 18 years of living among them (they call our area "schoolhouse hill) they are no smarter or better trained then anyone else is in their own field of work. Their kids turn out just like our own kids do, and they all live in a higher life style then most of the rest of the local community does.

Most of them have brand new cars or trucks that cost well over $35,000 sitting in their garages while they drive the "old clunker" to school and public events. I wonder why they would do a thing like that. From what I have observed, the teaching profession is no different then any other profession, except that they get to use your kids a bargaining chip for whatever perks they desire. What other trade can you think of that gets to use your kids as blackmail when they go on a strike or want a pay raise?

Levies just subsidize what the state can't and won't justify giving to the teachers, and they are probably one of the most unfair taxes that this state has. Lots of people don't even know that the majority of states that have the best and highest educational programs, don't even use this states backward, outdated, unfair levy system to fund the needs of education programs. In my opinion, teacher should be paid on their ability to teach and not on the length of time that they have managed to "hold down" their jobs. You have good teachers, you have great teachers and you also have stupid teachers; just like every other profession also has. That's why you will see this state in the near future going to a voucher system. It's the only way that the "deadhead" teachers will ever be weeded out of the educational system in many people's minds.

After one does a public discloser request of a schools records, you will see that much of what "teachers" do wrong is keep pretty darn secret from the public view. Unless a teacher does a "felony act" you are not going to hear jack $hit about it. In fact, most of the time when a teacher has done something really bad, he just moves on to another school district to do it all over again! Kind of sounds like the bureaucratic way that the Vatican did it business. You would be surprised, if you were to ever get to see what really goes on at times in our schools. Teaching, and the profession of teaching is really no different then the rests of the professions that we all do. There are good one and bad ones, but when was the last time you heard of a teacher being fired? The last one I can recall, was the teacher who got caught after she had taken her student home for a little extra "home work". They are just human and they should be paid just like the rest of us are!

They should start out at a low livable salary and get promoted by how well they perform in their job! If they did that, we wouldn't be having such miserable low test score in our schools today!

I can just hear old Skywalker whining again; there goes the rest of my credibility…darn!!

Sorry Skywalker, but the truth is often a hard pill to shallow!
Are you sure you're not a "teacher aid" Skywalker…you sure sound like some of those deadheads at times!


Trophy Mac

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How about the people who are just doing their jobs at whatever it may be each day, and the guy who they have worked with for years comes in the next day and kills 8 of his fellow workers?

Every job, and every profession has its ups and downs and teaching certainly is no different. You just hear more about it because "kids" are often involved in the issues, and "kids" as always, make far better new stories.

Cowlitzfisherman