Until I became a teacher I thought, "Oh, they are underpaid. Boo-hoo. I wish I had all summer off and only worked until 3:30 every day."
Now, I know better. Teachers begin their day at approximately 7:30 and end sometimes by midnight. They (I) babysit, council, mother, and TRY to teach 100 children every single day of the week.
A "planning period" is used to have meetings, conferences, or to discuss a child's behavior with a very biased parent.
Planning is on your own time. When you are not directly dealing with children, you must deal with power-hungry, ladder-climbing assistant principals and principals.
If you complain about either of the above, you are labeled a troublemaker by the central office higher ups who are there mostly because they couldn't or didn't want to get a "real" job.
In the 11 years I have been teaching, I've watched the quality of education go down the drain.
New teachers and principals cannot even speak or spell correctly, much less care about our children. The education field has become the new ladder for ignorant minorities and majorities to climb.
They receive degrees from colleges that allow the ignorant to float through and are not interested in anything but power and money.
Our children are now not only exposed to dangerous elements because these ignorant leaders will not or do not know how to get rid of them, but now have teachers that are either old and waiting for retirement or are new and have no experience.
Why are our best teachers leaving? Early retirement, suspension or termination because of "trouble-making", cannot abide the excessive paperwork, extra schooling required each year on your own time, or ignorant and abrasive administrators. It is NOT because of the children or the pay as so much of the public is led to believe.
Good teachers who love teaching children, like me, leave because of ignorance in adults.
Holly
Roxboro, North Carolina
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