Joe
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The deviates have gained power.
I have friends who are parents with young children & even in Canada more of them are opting out for private schools even tho they can't really afford it.
One thing I noticed is how many holidays/days the teachers in the public school system are taking off in Vancouver.
So in a way I understand the parents pov.
The public school teachers aren't working hard enough or doing their jobs. They wanna work less but be paid more. And they often go on strike or threaten to during the school year.
Perhaps Dovey has a point about home schooling or at least a mixture of hs and in class schooling. If the teachers abandon their responsibilities than the parents have to pick up the slack and do their jobs for them.
What people don't understand about teachers: The job is not just about the hours in school. There are many, many, many hours spent creating lessons, grading papers, doing professional devlopment shit to keep up with administrative BS, and going to administrative meetings. The job seems emdless. And on a lot of those "days off" teachers are at school doing shit for the school without the presence of students. It's a thankless job. Teachers aren't abandoning their responsibilities. Think about it. They have to worry about the administration, the district, the government, the parents, AND the students. It's a goddamn grind.
......to which I might add...
Maybe a classroom/class ought to be split up into 2 teachers if it's simply too much to handle it so that the students get the adequate number of hours of instruction. Maybe itd be lower wage for the teachers if they're just working 1/2 time but if the stress is too much...then perhaps that's what they should do.
I noticed when I was a contractor with the Vancouver school board, the teachers kept taking more days off. More Professional Development Days, more holidays. So the students ended up getting less instruction and spending less time in the classroom. But the teachers still got the same wage and their annual wage 4% increase.
Meanwhile the contractors like myself saw our hours getting cut back and as a result our wages fall because we worked less. Seems the school board offloaded it's 'savings' on us.
Being a contractor is even worse because we didn't get any benefits. No unions for us yet we deal with the same emotional trauma of these students and all that baggage got offloaded onto US.
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