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The Stupendous Failure Of Big City Education: How The Philly Teachers Union Loots The Schools
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,
It’s that time of year again – when the little juvenile delinquents, future prison inmates, and functionally illiterate junior members of the free shit army pick up their “free” backpacks and “free" school supplies they will never use and shuffle off to the decaying prison like schools in the City of Philadelphia to eat “free” breakfasts and “free” lunches, while being taught government sanctioned pablum by overpaid mediocre union teachers.
It’s a repeat of every year for the Phila school district. As the school year approaches they are shocked to report a massive deficit and beg the State of PA for more funding. The $12,000 per child simply isn’t enough, even though Parochial schools provide ten times the education for $9,000 per child. The district has a slight $80 million deficit this year. Last year they had a $100 million deficit and the mayor proposed a soda tax to fill the gap. It was defeated, so they raised property taxes instead. Mayor Nutter’s name is fitting. He is just another in a long line of Democratic mayors who have ruled Philadelphia since the 1950′s and whose policies of welfare handouts for their voting base paid for by taxing the producers, has resulted in a population decline from 2.1 million in 1950 to 1.5 million today. Doug Casey captures the essence of Philly with this definition:
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy): a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
The liberal solution to an ever decreasing tax base and an ever growing level of benefits for the free shit army and government union drones, is to increase taxes on the few remaining producers. They then flee the city, leaving fewer producers to tax. Rinse and repeat. Your neighborhoods then look like this.
The mayor, school district superintendent, and teacher’s union use the liberal mainstream media to sound the alarm about “devastating” budget cuts that will imperil the tremendous education the cherubs will receive. They warn that the school year will have to be delayed. They peddle mistruths about the governor cutting education funding in an attempt to influence public opinion. Their “solution” to the budget deficit this year is a doozy. I’ll get to that later. First I have to provide a mural update.
I drive past the Morton McMichael grade school in Mantua every day on my way to work. It sits across the street from the $27 million low income gated townhouse community called Mantua Square, paid for with your Obama stimulus funds in 2011. (Update: The 8 storefronts built into the project two years ago and touted as a way to revitalize commerce in Mantua still sit vacant – 100% NO OCCUPANCY. This follows the old liberal economic theorem of build it and they won’t come.) This school looks like it could be in a Dickens novel from the 1800′s. That’s fitting since Morton McMichael was a prominent citizen of Philadelphia during the 1800′s as founder of the Saturday Evening Post and Mayor of Philadelphia. That was back when a white man could get elected mayor of Philadelphia.
The building is decades old. It is dilapidated, run down and crumbling. The windows have never been replaced. Of course, you would have to remove the bars and cages to get to the windows. The neighborhood has a bit of a crime problem. An 8 year old boy was raped on the way to this school last year. There are a couple ancient air conditioners poking out of some windows. The parking lot/play area is crumbling blacktop with weeds, strewn with garbage for good measure. Graterford Prison is more inviting than this institution of learning. The parking lot was empty all summer. The Phila School district had no plans for any capital renovations at this school. No new windows. No new classrooms. No new technology. No central air conditioning.
Then about a month ago I noticed scaffolding going up in front of the school. Maybe they were going to actually do some renovations to improve this blight. Then I noticed they were just painting the bricks white. A few days later it became clear. Rather than making actual improvements to the decaying structure, it was another mural. Of course another white artist, not from the neighborhood, was getting paid to beautify the school to inspire the children on to great deeds. They chose an environmental theme rather than black people doing great things. It looks like graffiti to me.
Maf Is Hard
I’m sure this paint job, paid for with tax dollars, will really turn this school around. They have had four principals in the last three years. The discipline in this school is so bad that teachers fear assaults from students and parents alike. This is another classic example of liberals wasting money with shallow displays, while ignoring the true problems. This school has 408 students and 35 full-time union teachers. That is a ratio of 11.7 students per teacher. The ratio in Parochial schools is 17 to 1. When I went to school it was over 20 to 1. With an 11.7 students per teacher ratio, they should be getting a great education from these top notch educators. Check out the results:
Dark Blue – Morton McMichael; Light Blue – Phila Schools; Grey – PA schools
By 5th grade less than 30% can do math, less than 20% can read, and less than 10% can write at a proficient level. And you can bet that proficient level is not that high. The state results are bad enough, but the Philadelphia results are atrocious. In Philadelphia, only 33 – 13% of the district’s 250 schools met state standards, down from 41% in 2011. It was uncovered that they were cheating on the test scores in 2011. Liberals lie and cheat when it comes to getting funding. The Morton McMichael school has 35 full-time union teachers earning good money, with gold plated healthcare and pension plans. And this is the results they are producing? I came across a quote from William Arthur Ward today that applies:
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
Based on the results achieved in this school there doesn’t appear to be even a mediocre teacher in the bunch.
You have a better chance of finding a woman with a wedding ring, a man with a job, or a kid with a book in his hand in Mantua (highly unlikely in all three cases) than ever finding a great teacher in a Philadelphia school. But at least they are well paid.
The Philadelphia school system educates (I use the term loosely as 50% dropout) 200,000 kids per year with a tiny budget of $2.4 billion. The district has been so poorly run and corrupt that a state commission now runs the schools. They insist that $2.4 billion isn’t enough to achieve SAT scores not much higher than you get for signing your name. How is it that a school district that spends more than the national average per student can’t manage to educate children properly? One look at its personnel costs and perks, including exploding pensions and legal services for union members, gives you an idea why.
The storyline from the liberal media, greedy teacher’s union, and captured Democratic politicians is that the evil Republican governor Corbett has gutted their funding. It’s a completely false storyline. The $800 billion Obama porkulus plan doled out payoffs to teacher unions around the country. The temporary stimulus funds expired. In the mind of an idiotic liberal, this is considered a spending cut. Temporary = permanent in the demented mind of a liberal. The truth is that Philadelphia union teachers are overpaid and under-worked. The PA government pension plan is a ticking time bomb that is destroying the budgets of every locality in the State. It’s just that Philadelphia is the worst run, most corrupt, and most union controlled in the State.
Philadelphia school district pensions costs alone are going from the equivalent of 16.9% of wages to 21.4% of wages in one year. In dollar terms that’s an increase of $3,230 per average teacher in just one year. Pensions alone will cost $159 million next year. Philly schools also pay for a number of other benefits, including the equivalent of 3.26% of salary for unused sick and vacation days that workers can cash in when they leave. In all, these variable benefit items will add the equivalent of nearly 39% of salary to the cost of employing a worker.
The school’s budget also includes a range of per capita benefit costs, so called because they are expressed in dollars per worker, not percent of salary. Medical insurance averages $13,829 per worker, up by $1,000. Then there are health and welfare benefits, which are additional health perks, such as prescription eye benefits. H&W, as it’s known, costs an average of $4,447 more per teacher. They even offer legal services to workers at a cost of $165 per worker.
For the average teacher earning $68,700 annually, benefit costs pile on an additional $44,100, meaning the average cost of employing a teacher in the system is $112,700. Benefit costs, in other words, amount to two-thirds of salaries. By contrast, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute, the total cost of benefits in the private sector amounts to 30% of salaries.
AVERAGE COSTS, TYPICAL PHILLY SCHOOL DISTRICT
So let me get ths straight. The average Philadelphia teacher is receiving compensation and benefits of $112,700 and 50% of the students dropout, while of the remaining students only 45% can do math, 35% can read, and 30% can write. But at least they have some nice murals dotting the decaying schools.
Every new year will bring higher pension payment requirements. PA has $55 billion of unfunded pension benefits payable to government union workers and teachers. Annual pension contributions increased by 25% or more in the majority of education systems last year and that more than three-quarters of districts are anticipating a similar increase this year. By 2020, school officials in the state estimate, pensions will amount to more than 30% of payroll, up from just 4% in 2009. This is a crisis that grows larger by the day and is willfully ignored by politicians beholden to these government unions.
Last year, on average, workers with 35-39 years of service who retired in a school system had a final annual salary of $80,285 and a pension of $60,396, or about 75% of final salary. Not bad for turning out functionally illiterate morons. Rather than accept the fact that the government pension system is a disaster and needs a massive makeover, the feckless politicians choose higher taxes and annual gimmicks.
What Are They Smoking
Guess how Mayor Nutter, the School Superintendent, and the Democratic politicians want to fund the $80 million school district budget? A $2 per pack additional cigarette tax in the City of Philadelphia. Cigarette taxes are supposed to fund the detrimental societal healthcare costs of smoking. Instead they are being used to fund bloated teacher pensions. Local governments are incapable of imposing excise taxes, so the PA legislature must pass this law. So far they have not complied, but they will come September because it is the easy solution. Why tackle pension reform when you can just increase taxes on the poor to pay for bad teachers?
The multitude of things wrong with this idea is beyond comprehension. Why foist the cost onto a minority — and given the demographics of those who smoke, a poor minority? Although local governments try to tax cigarettes and even alcohol, there’s no money in taxing vices. It’s too easy to purchase cigarettes outside the city. Why would anyone buy cigarettes in Philly when they can go into the next County and pay 50% less? There is already a $1.60 PA state tax on every pack of cigarettes. Adding another $2 would put Philly just behind NYC and Chicago on the tax scale. The imposition of this tax will increase bootlegging, smuggling and other criminal activities. Just what Philly needs – more crime. They can then use that as a reason to hire more union cops. It’s the liberal circle of life.
The people who should be most angry about this “solution” are the very people who keep voting idiotic Democrats into office for decades – poor black people. Only 23% of Philadelphians havea college degree. Those without a degree are more than twice as likely to smoke. Cigarette taxes are a tax on the stupid.
There are 580,000 households in Philadelphia. The median household income is $34,000 and 26% of the population lives below the poverty line. Approximately 300,000 of the households make less than $36,000 and 400,000 make less than $60,000. The lower the household income the higher the percentage who smoke. So the master plan of the Democrats who run Philly is to deplete what little disposable income the poor have left in order to pay the bloated salaries and pensions of terrible teachers.
The average income of a worker in Philly is $22,000. 38% of these people smoke, versus 12% of those making over $90,000. This cigarette tax is built upon the same warped logic as government run casinos and lotteries. It’s a tax on the ignorant and least able to afford the tax.
The sheer idiocy of this plan to “save” the schools this year is lost on the brainless media twits mouthing the teacher’s union talking points. The $12,000 per year per child is more than enough to pay for a decent education. The $2.4 billion budget should be geared to improving facilities, providing books, and paying excellent teachers for excellent results. Tenure should be scrapped and lousy teachers should be fired. The government pension plan needs to be obliterated and replaced with a 401k plan like the rest of the world is stuck with. It will never happen. The democrats who have controlled Philly for the last 60 years will raise property taxes, raise sales taxes, and raise cigarette taxes until they drive every producer and business out of the city, while further impoverishing the very people they pretend to care about. Detroit here we come.
Remember, smoke a cigarette for the children. And remember to buy them in Philly for 50% more than you pay in the suburbs. It’s always for the children.
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Wow.
The Blaine Amendment increased the tax burden for those who sent their children to parochial schools. It still obstructs this option on the pretext of equal education. With the added enrollment in public schools the unions saw the opportunity to benefit from yet another government catastrophe. It would have been better to assist parochial school families and avoid the added unmanageable weight in the public school system.
http://www.mocatholic.org/education/what-is-a-blaine-amendment-and-how-d...
Well, this proves it, we're obviously not throwing enough money into education. Let's get those ball bearings glowing red on the printing presses.
Living NEAR Philly (most definitely never IN Philly), let me add some color to this:
The "budget cuts" are nothing more than the roll-back of one-time increases in the school budget when the Obama "stimuls plan" was enacted in 2009. So if you are one of those people who suspected all along that the "stimulus plan" was nothing more than shoving money into unions, this is perfect proof of that. They're not reductions, they're going back to pre-stimulus baseline. And they're screaming like a stuck pig over it.
Teacher salaries are only part of the problem. The previous head of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission (yes, Philly schools have their own commission above the district level, and it's a political cronyism position, as you can imagine) was so blatanty inept and thieving they paid her over $10MM just to leave, or else be brought up on charges. Wouldn't you love that to be your choices if you were about to be fired from your job? Well, that's how it works in Philly.
Philly is trying to ram through a $2 per pack cigarette tax, too. To fund the schools. Don't give a damn, but just another reason to stay the hell out of that shithole of a city.
Philly has equalled or surpassed Chicago in terms of corruption. In the last Presidential election there were 52 voting precincts that went 100% for Obama. Not a single vote for a Republican, Libertarian or anyone else. Republical poll observers were illegally thrown out of the voting locations EVERYWHERE in Philly for about 6 hours until they got a court injunction to allow them back in. By then, the damage was already done, obviously. The Black Panthers were out again in force, just like in 2008 as well.
It is a ONE PARTY town, for, by and of the Democratic machine. The rest of PA (where I live) is strongly conservative, by and large, but Philly outweighs the rest of the state, so the state overall will NEVER lean towards anthing but a Democratic presidential candidate ever again. Romney thinking he might just sqeak out a win in PA in 2012 (which would have won him the election) was pure fantasy and everyone who lives here knew it.
DO NOT GO ANYWHERE NEAR PHILLY. IT IS TOXIC.
Philly is a giant SHIT HOLE
Even shitholes serve a purpose. Philly serves no purpose.
Cloward-Piven is the purpose. Philly is an incubator.
Philly serves no benefit. But it has a purpose.
Ah stimulus jobs:
A Rangel coached by a Reich: Bad News for America’s whites
The porcine Rangel scrabbling to get his snout in the trough is what I suppose you would expect – although the greed shines through impressively. Far more sinister is the cold-eyed ferocity of Reich’s face, bobbing down at the bottom of the screen, almost eerily disembodied. This is a different, and far more dangerous political tradition. And apparently he is really serious about harming whites.
Those whom this pair is conspiring to plunder and deprive had better wake up and notice what is going on. We are going to see a lot of this in the Obama regime.
http://www.youtube.com/v/opxuUj6vFa4
Bad links, Laddie.
Thanks August. I did find the new url for the article but that is the 3rd youtube posting of that segment from the House Ways and Means Committee on January 7th, 2009 that has been taken down by Google's Jewish owners. Maybe it has been reposted once more but the censors are quite active at youtube.
Here is the url for the article at least:
https://www.vdare.com/posts/a-rangel-coached-by-a-reich-bad-news-for-ame...
"Philly has equalled or surpassed Chicago in terms of corruption. In the last Presidential election there were 52 voting precincts that went 100% for Obama. Not a single vote for a Republican, Libertarian or anyone else. Republical poll observers were illegally thrown out of the voting locations EVERYWHERE in Philly for about 6 hours until they got a court injunction to allow them back in. By then, the damage was already done, obviously. The Black Panthers were out again in force, just like in 2008 as well."
Complete and utter BS and if this was the case you don't think Corbett would have brought this forth in the Voter ID case before the PA Supreme Court which is far from a 'liberal' instituion give the judges that serve on it when the state was pressed to demonstrate cases of voter fraud/intimidation in order to defend the Voter ID law that got overturned earlier this year.
Rest of 'conservative' PA is the part is graying and aging and a key reason why the state is dying economically. Biggest portion of the PA state budget last year was Medicaid (30%) whose single biggest expense is assisted living facilities for the elderly. PA's biggest problem remains its elderly demographics but try telling that to the rest of the country bumpkins in the state.
As for 'corruption', PA has it in all kinds and Harrisburg is just as much a cess pool as Philly. The only difference there is that it is all GOP run with the long-standing rule that Democrats won't go after corruption in conservative parts of the state and the GOP won't go after too much corruption in Philly.
Ah, heck. Ya'll forgot the most important points.
1. With teachers being provided computers in the classroom most of them are running their ebay (or some other site similar to ebay) business. Was just reading the "bio" of a woman with an online shop saying how she is a third grade teacher. Well, just how do you get the time for a shop with 500 handmade items to put in that shop? And then to answer queries and on and on and on...
2. Don't know how yer going to get better teachers. Even when I was in college all those in the teacher track were considered the absolute dumbest kids on campus Because everything they took was pass/fail. No real grades in anything.
This speaks to the Freakonomics authors who were being interviewed and commented upon education saying that in-the-old-days all the best and brightest women were teachers because it was one of the few jobs that was available to women. Now women with real brains, look for jobs with real opportunity, kids lose!
3. My sis is a teacher; she goes to school sicker than heck so she can keep her sick days for that "add to retirement" pay. So get all the kids sick, oh yeah. Course when she's sick at school, the kids spend most of the day in "silent reading" while she kicks it back hitting the internet and looking fo rthings to buy.
Leeches teaching leeches.
Solution: kill the parents of children who fail.
Parents? No, parent.
I guess you haven't paid attention to just how powerless parents are. Child comes in with a bruise, they can call CPS and POOF - they gone, and you maybe in jail. Just saw an article about a parent who made a lunch for her kid. Good food, too Roast beef sandwich, etc. She got fined $10 because it didn't have Ritz crackers.
It's hard to be motivated when people say you are the problem, but they don't want you to do anything to fix the problem.
Get them out of the government schools.
Bull-fucking-shit
And you had a kid in school... when?
Sure you have parents that screw up badly. But it's not just the parents, that's my point. I've seen a LOT of "it's the parents fault". The problem is much, much broader than that.
"Class, we're going on a field trip today - to the Pennsylvania State Prison" - very sad, as education is the only route out of hopelessness and it looks like that route is a DEAD end....
Democrats pick for Governor Tom Wolf is a wolf in sheep's clothing. I know this first hand. He is a lying scumbag, as is his Wolf business.
Fuck this i'm going to bed.
Home schooling or hire a certified teacher to educate your children at home. Fuck the union.
What I'd really like to see are all the Liberal excuses for this debacle. That's entertainment.
1. Legacy of slavery to white people.
2. White flight.
3. White racism.
4. White Tea Party
5. Not enough white money
6. White Bush
7. White Republicans
8. White Rush Limbaugh
9. White Christmas
10. White guilt
11. More "Hurt Feelings Reporting Forms" ( Teacup Kids).
12. White Hispanic George Zimmerman
Changed my down vote to an up, ASSUMING you are being highly sarcastic.
One never knows, what with the various infestations of shitheads with an agenda, on this Forum.
I had a friend in the IT business in California who had a automated print management service that reduced the cost of routine office work by 30% without impacting anything.
Hands down it cut the cost of printing by 30% for everyone from the print shop to a secretary.
So he asked me to call up some school district people for a presentation, etc.
Keep in mind this was at the height of the tax revenue collapse and state wide furloughs. Everyone was getting hit.
Long story short. Tried selling this system to the byzantine school system.
They did not give a fuck about saving one thin dime.
Nine months later the state passes a half cent sales tax hike just for the schools.
Everything is back to the good ol' days to squandering money.
The most vivid memory was suggesting to a county-wide public-ed wonk that even minimally trying this system for a year in one location would save $100,000 to keep some special ed after-school program running during uncertain times.
The actual look on this guy's face when I suggested just doing it "for the students" said it all.
He actually got mad when I mentioned kids.
The last things these school administrators think about is "student."
They spend their days planning Disneyland Fed-Ed confabs, getting their nails done and otherwise shitting on children.
Everyone should take a turn at teaching to see how hard it is and how The Education System is a precursor to the Prison System, but Jesus Christ get your kids out of these places.
A young person in America would be far better off working on their GED and Eagle Scout than waste their time in The System.
If a first grade teacher's salary was based on what percent of his/her class could read at a first grade level at the end if the year, I bet things would be different.
Yeah, the teachers would have to cheat on a shitload more tests.
That's a bet you'd lose.
Sounds like the BS I encountered way too often at Univ of Michigan in the my econ degree and nonsense driven largley out of U of Chicago that if you just 'incentivize' things in the right way with cash you will magically get the results you deserve. Completely ignoring all of the methodological issues, it is so woefully ignorant and shortsighted because it ignores the existing history, organizational, and other interpersonal dynamics already in place and completely ignores other non-monetary rewards which in a lot cases are more powerful than any marginal monetary incentive.
Sadly this idiocy prevades (if I just pay X for something, I get Y results) econometrics today and it has been horribly misapplied to all kinds of policy areas including education.
No dipshit. Do your job you get paid. Don't do your job, you don't. You obviously don't care to know what goes on in our public schools. Very little instruction goes on. Kids get passed on to the next grade. Too bad there are lives being wasted all the while tax money being poured down a rat hole.
World is black and white and you apply a massive generalization to all public districts. FredFlintstone is a very fitting avator for you.
Earlier this year NPR had a week-long series on Philadelphia schools, the segment I heard featured a Jewish woman teacher and they ran audio of her in class teaching the little blacks and browns and yellows about some Jewish religious stuff. I thought, good grief a White Christian STUDENT was SUSPENDED for saying GOD BLESS YOU in class to a girl who had sneezed. Yet this Jewish woman was allowed, obviously, to teach her religio-ethnic tribal stuff to the class, taxpayer dollars, Hmmm
Well the whole issue of education today is DUMBING DOWN WHITEY. And attempting to RAISE up the 3rd world heritage to catch up. Well they've been spending about a trillion dollars and they haven't caught up yet.
Could it be: RACE?
Well keep up the good work and KEEP discriminating against White men and women in hiring as teachers, keep on importing spanish speaking "teachers" from the 3rd world and DON'T hire White Americans, keep on, ¡SI SE PUEDE!
"The democrats who have controlled Philly for the last 60 years will raise property taxes, raise sales taxes, and raise cigarette taxes until they drive every producer and business out of the city, while further impoverishing the very people they pretend to care about. Detroit here we come."
Ummm yeah, progressives in action. Criminal action, as is their SOP.
Grimaldus
The real story is the gray line showing the rest of Pennsylvannia.... I live in PA, in a suburban district, our teachers make at least 50 percent more than philly and our district is well below the gray line. We are a white suburban district. The system is beyond broken. Charter or vouchers are the only way to fix it, and yes its the teachers union that is to blame (tenure).
The public sector union in Quebec went crazy when their pension contributions had to be increased. They were not happy about paying more for the same pension but that's what zirp does to funds.
Close down Philly. Put all the residents on stage coaches and force them to migrate to Utah. Once there, they can have a brand new start.
(Be sure they pack lots of cream cheese for their trip as well. It's on aisle three.)
Turning people into fucking mormons is not the answer.
I live in Arizona during the winter and work in Alaska during the summer.
When I consider the east coast, that is everywhere east of the Appalachians, I think:
"Stay the Fuck over There-!"
And Shelter in Place Forever
Hey now, its not all bad. You see they will have to do something with their six figure salaries and with interest rates at all time lows that something is likely buying equities at all time highs so to that I say; mission accomplished.
Might we for a moment take a deep breath and wonder....what the US might be without the stinkin plight that is the "black community"? At what point can I expect people to just be something other than knuckle dragging savages???
200,000,000 people yearn for the answer!
Trying to teach in inner city Philadelphia might just be one job that I would NOT want even for $100K plus in compensation and bennies. However, it is the 'pension bomb' (and Social Security) as much as the Fed that will collapse the dollar. The 'law' protects the retires from getting cuts, so the only option is to collapse the dollar and make what is paid out less valuable.
One could also look at the poor state of government education/indoctrination as a success if:
1) Stealing from many under the guise of "education" were the goal.
2) Creating a horde of desperate and dependent people were the goal.
3) Manufacturing an enemy for the thinking masses to focus on instead of the thieves and murderers of the government and the banksters.
An American, not US subject.
"Problem - Reaction - Solution"
If only the problem was so simple as 35 teachers and their union. The primary problem in all of U.S. education is the content of the curriculum in the Departments of Education at the U.S. universities, the people who inhabit these departments, the type of people these departments attract, and the hopeless politicization of all things "educational." I remember well my second year as a teaching assistant at a major U.S. university. After the first exam, the professor asked each of the assistants, who were grading the exams, to bring him an example of an "A," a B, a C, and a D exam (everyone knew what an F was... someone who didn´t do much more than write their name). We were to bring these to his office the next day so that he could ensure that we were grading correctly and uniformly.
After 2 hours of reading their essays, I had an A, a B, a C, and some Fs, but no Ds. I had no more time to go through any more exams, so I needed to find a D quickly. I glanced down my course roster until I found an education major. I pulled her exam from the pile, and sure enough, I had my example of a D. How did I know this? Because after a year grading exams and reading essays, I knew that the worst students, worse even than communication majors, were always education majors.
The pay of public school teachers is not the problem. This pay is appropriate really for a good professional in the U.S. The problem is the people who occupy these positions are the worst of the worst and their curriculum in the education departments is abysmal. First, make a rigorous and challenging program, that actually weeds out the worst students. The salaries in the field will attract better students if the course content was not childish and did not bore to tears any reasonably intelligent person who trained to be a teacher. Also the political correctness of the departments has to been completely removed. As it stands now, no right-thinking white or asian male would ever enter one these self-hate programs.
As an aside, I would add that Argentine schools (where I live now) do not have the best and brightest teaching their kids. The pay is a about $1500 pesos per month (about $130 USD). The curriculum, however, in the programs of education at the universities here is actually much better (using mostly English and French social theory texts from the 19th century- Emile Durkheim, etc- translated into Spanish as their pedagogy). The result, overall, is a higher level of public school performance: without many exceptionally gifted teachers, very few resources, almost no textbooks, wide-spread poverty, drugs in the schools, and so forth. The only difference is a better teacher-training curriculum.
Now if only most of the students did not drop out to have sex and make babies...
It's not the teachers as much as it is the students:
Philadelphia
White:37%
Black: 42%
Hispanic:12%
Asian: 6%
Honestly, the teachers are probably going to need all that salary and benefits to be able to afford therapy and hospital bills. This I know from having many family members who taught public school in the "inner-city."
On the overall issues (legacy pension and healthcare costs being too high) even in comparison to NYC, Boston, or Chicago, Philly SD has ridiculous high costs and the author is right. What he conveniently leaves out:
- Philly city gov't has not run the SD since 2001 and when the PA gov was given the power to appoint the majority of the 5-member School Reform Commission which has run the SD since. Philly city gov't has all kinds of problems of its own with pensions and the DROP program but they haven't been in charge for 13 years. Schweiker (R) took over Ridge from '01-'03 and Corbett has been in place with an uncontested GOP majority since Jan. '11. Some of this is Fast Eddie Rendell's issue but this article is incredibly one-sided and isn't even factual about who is in charge.
- Article completely leaves out the fact about the wholesale change in the city school district and that over 1/3 of the kids in the city in primary education (K-12) were enrolled in a charter school and not a union-led school. This started in '01 under Ridge when Edison came in to run a number of charters and failed at each and every point to deliver even their baseline results.
Overall, the performance for charter schools in the city over the past 13 years has varied considerably with some very good performing schools and others performing quite poorly.
- $12k/student seems high until you compare to some of the wealthier school districts in the Philly suburbs which spend 10-25% more annually per student to educate kids in K-12.
- Philly SD magnet schools are very good but the problem is they are quite limited and very competitive to get into.
- Ignores a huge problem about the money the SD has spent on outside consultants and on overall adminstrative staffing levels which are too high.
- Starting salaries in the Philly SD are generally about 20-35% less than the surrounding surburbs.
I would prefere that teachers were much better paid in salary with a 401k instead along with higher qualifications. Determining which teachers to 'hire/fire' isn't easy for a number of methodlogical reasons.
I'm pretty sure that this comment will get a tons of thumbs down but this article (especially the white trash idiots who are attracted to these articles like flies) but this is largely nothing but a 2nd rate smear piece typical for the author. As usual, this is a long-standing problem with plenty of blame to go around for all parties involved and no easy fixes.
As usual, facts get lots of down votes on ZH.
You come across as a solid young person who has a lot to offer. You will also learn many lessons and one day you will sound more and more like the old white guys who spout off here.
Two high schools in South Philadelphia are separated by a mile, but the distance between them seems much wider.
South Philadelphia High School scored 36.5 on a 100-point scale on the new statewide school assessments. Just west on Point Breeze Avenue, the Preparatory Charter School of Mathematics, Science, Technology and Careers got a score of 70.6.
The state has about 160 brick-and-mortar charter schools, and more than half of them are in Philadelphia. In that city, charter schools outperform their district counterparts — the average score for charter schools is 66.9; 57.5 for district schools.
But in Philadelphia, it’s clear–charter schools are having a positive impact.
The comparison of South Philadelphia High School and Prep Charter is a good example.
With about 600 students each, both schools serve a population that is more than 60 percent economically disadvantaged. Both schools employ teachers with an average of more than nine years’ experience. The charter school has a 99.3 percent graduation rate. The district school graduates 36 percent of its students.
“We have practices and programs in place that work,” said Patricia Ann Sack, principal of Prep Charter. “We’ve increased our dedication to standards.”
Prep Charter operates 5 1/2 days a week with labs and other activities on Saturdays. They also offers dual enrollment for seniors at a community college.
“It’s a joint effort,” said Sack. “We have parents wanting their kids to be successful, amazing faculty and students who believe they can do well.”
Only 29% of Philly schools are charter schools. Seems your figure of over one-third is false. What a surprise.
Every member of the Phila School Reform Commission is a liberal Democrat from Philly. Your storyline of Republicans pulling the strings from Harrisburg is false. What a surprise.
SD is corrupt and mismanged. It has been run by liberal Democrats and continues to be run by liberal Democrats.
School Reform Commission
I love facts. They are so inconvenient to liberal storylines.
The Philadelphia School District deducted 38 percent of its average cost of $13,272 per regular education child before paying the charter school during the 2009-10 school year. What this means is that the District collected $13,272 per child in taxpayer money, paid $8,184 to charter schools for each child, transferred responsibility for educating that child to the charter school, and kept $5,088.
The same article could have been written about the Chicago Public School sytems. Since the unions were desimated by outsourcing manufacturing in the 1980/90s, the unions started organizing public employees.
Essentially, unions should not be allowed in government. Employees used to enter government for public service leanings; the pay was less than the private sector, but benefits were superior to the private sector, including pensions. However, previously government salaries were low, and hence the pension payments were also relatively low. Now government worker salaries are much higher than the private sector and pension benefits have been blown way out of proportion. Teacher benefits have been extended to grossly overpaid and incompetent school adminstrators, etc.
The US govt has evolved into an bloated, oppressive machine with absurd levels of military and other wasteful spending. It is too late for meaningful reform, as those in the political/decision making roles are only interested in benefiting themselves. Change will only come when the entire system is forced to reset, brought on by war/pandemis or some other catastophe. If we continue on the current path, the future will look like Elysium.
There is much hatred of teachers expressed on this site. A liitle research would show that there are hundreds of thousands of teachers making less than $30,000/year and their pension benefits will not be so lucrative.
Hatred is a pretty common theme on this site since it is click bait and it isn't hard to pick a group - Jews, Blacks, Mexicans, homosexuals, women, Arabs, Chinese, Africans, etc
It's not hatred. It's eyes wide open, and calling it like you see it. For 50 years, " they" have been trying, and succeeding in telling the people their eyes are lying to them.
This site is for those whose eyes are open, who are tired of being pissed on and told its rain, and we want to associate and converse with others whose eyes are open.
The problem with the big cities is blacks and black subculture. Period. You can can dance and trot around it all you want. The harder you try to make excuses for it, the sillier you look. And don't feed me Dr. Carson. He is the exception, not the rule, and I personally both admire him and pity him and others like him. Although I'm sure he doesn't want or need my pity.
I am white, big surprise. My father in law's second wife is black. I love and admire her and her family. My sister just informed me she is dating a black dude. She shared that he feels "lost" in this world, because he tries to do right by society, but can't stand his nigger family, and whites don't accept him fully. I pity him.
But I, we, do not help the plight by not accepting reality. We make it worse,dont need to take my word, just look around. All society has done is to create a shit sandwich. And we know the truths. It just doesn't jive with liberal philosophy.
Set a curriculum, with high standards, and those who can absorb it can move on, regardless of the skin color. We all know that's the way. And, for the record, It's more than skin color. There are other "traits" that go along. We also know that to be true.
I only know how I would fix things if I were King. That won't help. Even talking or writing about it doesn't help. But at least I get to vent.
Ranting racist who rants incoherently and does nothing. What an a-hole.
And I'll bet you absolutely despise white, heterosexual, Christian males.
But that's A-OK according to current fashion, isn't it?
If the person is an a-hole, sure. You can tell that this board is overwhelming male, white, and older. There are enough reasons you won't particularly enjoy getting along with someone let alone their demographic features solely. Always wondered if the same misanhtropes on here are everywhere near like this in public or just quietly sprew this garbage on the Internet. Bet overwhelmingly the later.
101 comments, 32 Nigger or Black slur references directly in the posts. Even a low for ZH.
even a low for ZH,
dang, u musta schooled in philly. Your convoluted sentence is meaningless.
Indeed,
ZH comments.
For those who want to know what intelligent, sensible people are thinking.
For others, there are the letters to the NYT.
Who said anything about the letters to the NYT and yeah your comments are pretty disgusting in this thread.
You piece of shit liberals and your fellow union hacks created this explosive diarrhea formerly known as public education.
Your policies destroyed entire societies and now they are in perpetual decline and permanently debauched.
You grew it. You can chew it.
You say "it's for the little childrens"
I say "fuck you all".
Pants up....and don't loot!
Oh, I thought our economy and society has been destroyed by 40 years of wealth transfer from the middle class to the Oligarchs culminating with the $23 trillion in bailouts since 2008.
You are a fucking idiot and are an active participant in our declining society. A simple tool that the Oligarchs wield with ease.
I think that the problem runs a little deeper than that. The question remains in most areas (especially in Canada where I live) "how to get people to give up the idea of entitlements when they have been promised these perks for forty years". The thought does not enter into the minds of the unions that the requests are outrageous and completely out of line. After all these are simply the clauses written in the contracts and they are paid to fight for them. To actually get more if they can.
In Canada the teachers union owns a private sports team as part of the enormous pension fund that keeps growing every year as a result of property taxes. It is insane but don't blame the fund manager (who is doing a great job) or the teachers. They are only taking what has been promised to them. As was clearly stated in this article "someone has topay for these things". That someone is the private industry. It continues until it can no longer be continued. Until they all leave for greener pastures where they are not persecuted by "too big to fail" governments.
Gone are the thoughts of productive, wealth building. The pendulum has swung too far to the right and it will not correct itself until people get their pride back.
must....smoke....more...for...the....childrennn...DOH!
In 2005 after Katrina New Orleans Board of Ed fired 7500 big fat union public school teachers and went to charter schools and "younger whiter" teachers.Problem sort of solved, but kids still dumb as a box of rocks and they dont mind staying that way.
mommy, mommy, I like my new tit-cheers.
I learned how to spell EBT.
A good teacher does not get into politics.
A good teacher is independent, does not need union.
A good teacher makes his name and is invited.
A good teacher knows how much you need to live and make your paycheck.
The rest is not Teacher Education are salaried.
As prosecutors, those frustrated because they could not be judge or police chiefs who failed to be lieutenants in the Army or even those guys who think they are the law.
We all know, in our own schools, who the "good" teachers are. And of course, we do what we can to make sure our children get those teachers. That said, if you are going to reward the "good" teachers, by what merit standards do you propose grading them? The current system rewards the "good" teachers through their decisions to seek employment at other schools. Personally, I'd be okay with raising salaries and taxes to entice them to stay in their existing schools, but many people do not, and you can only delay, not prevent, the inevitable job move of a young and mobile teacher.
This is the worst BS post on ZH ever. I guess Tyler has to throw some raw meat to the Ann Randoids who remain in arrested adolescence every once in a while.
Who the hell is Ann Randoid?
Sorry,
I went to private school so I mispelled Ayn and Randroid.
No doubt there can be efficiencies in having a public education system and a benefit from standards. But beyond that, what are your points in bashing the article? Because the Philly school system is little more than another TBTF institution that siphons money to TPTB.
Because the fact simple fact the Philly city gov't doesn't run and hasn't run the SD since '01, this piece is full of half-truths, mathematical inconsistencies/errors, and completely leaves out things including how many kids are already in charter schools in Philly.
Jim Quinn rants like this but is very careful to never actually say 'niggers' because if he did and Penn could ilk of it he would lose his job in strategic planning in a heartbeat. There are some very valid points in this article but it is written in a manner that spews a lot of unnecessary BS too.
That's a lot for babysitting.
Education levels have dropped all over the USA, including the Ivy League universities. The truth is, you can't let the left-wing teach. Education has to be left to Conservatives. Simply because to a Conservative, teaching is about teaching, whereas for a left-winger, teaching is about "moral high ground" policies and progressivism.
Bullshit!!! You can not find a single data point to prove education levels have dropped. International scores show US students scoring comparably to those countries (Finland) that supposedly have great educational systems. The NEAP shows African-American students today scoring higher than white students did twenty years ago on the math component. Of course the AA students are still behind their white counterparts because those students have made steady gains too.
The author of the article thinks all of you are dumb sheep. After viewing many of the comments, it's quite apparent he's correct.
http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2011/downloads/T11_IR_M_Chapter2.pdf
Pay special attention to Exhibit 2.2. It really sucks when the facts get in the way of a real good false narrative.
Yeah and I guess unemployment is at 6% too. False narrative my ass.
I see you resent facts.
There is no mention of race in that report and exhibit 2.2 is in reference to a test administered during 4th grade. It's largely irrelevant.
What the fuck are you talking about? The test is administered in 4th and 8th grades, as are most of international tests comparing student achievement. For heaven's sake, I just gave you two of the three international tests used. It's irrelevant because it doesn't fit the false narrative you were stupid enough to believe.
And your god damn right there is no mention of race. Those scores are not disaggregated. If they were, middle and upper middle class 4th and 8th grade (those are the fucking testing grades) would have achievement levels that rival and exceed scores of students throughout the world.
Bullshit! You were given facts yet decided to remain ignorant.
Want to fix things? Fix families. Teach girls to be more selective about their partners. No diploma, no pussy. BOOM, a huge number of men suddenly get very interested in education. Spreading legs for the biggest baddest mofos might have been a good reproduction strategy in the wild, but it doesn't produce good results in a civilized society.
glad to see all the awake people and the death of the left right paradigm.
I pray everyday (i am not religious) that the republitards win the presidency, congress, senate, governors and more.
Then I can watch as their poplularity starts at %50-60 and then continually drops until 6 years later this site will be overrun with libtards screaming how it's all the repubs fault.
Then I will say I told you so.
That's not really a good example, Newark NJ spends $17k ~ 24k per student and grades are just as bad and the annual budget is $1 billion and funded by munis across the state since Newark is listed as an Abbot district, mind you it has an arena, airport and other large businesses that barely contribute...
Pretty much what public education is in these areas is a daycare service to keep these kids off the streets for 8 hours... When they pay little taxes it's pretty much "free" in their sense and like everything that is free to them is wasted.
The creation of Abbot districts was to have equal funding but it goes to show that money isn't the cure. These abbot districts are funded more than munis that pay into it and yet grades are much better...but we all know why these people continue to fight to keep these as Abbot districts, they find some way to benefit from it.
Public education costs should be paid almost entirely by those who have children in school then perhaps parents will push their kids to do well all over when they see the bill they have to pay!
The best is some of the Philly businesses have bullet proof glass now...a sign of the times in the city of brotherly love...Ben Franklin must be rolling over in his grave.
Mayor Nutter, please increase the taxes on flat brimmed hats, hoodies, all of the FUBU apparel, Colt45 malt liquor, Ripple, Escalades, Kool Aid, basketballs, black eyed peas, fried chicken, Jheri Curl, dew rags, obama paraphernalia
The Vatican communists are destroying America. So leave. This is not rocket science. Let it burn. Leave. Go to Asia and watch them burn it down over the net. Leave. What part of this word don't you understand? LEAVE. Let me spell it out for you. Go east young man, L E A V E!
Have the kids do fundraisers by selling cigarettes door-to-door.
We may not live to see it. But this will all reset some day. Or Humans will just die off. It's un-Natural the way the systems have been running.
From the top to the bottom. The Grand Reset can't be far off, we would hope. But.... Who here would think it has lasted this long.
Society is turning into Idiocracy, the movie. But it won't last. It is mathematically and physically impossible.
Great upheaval is on the horizon. Enjoy the good times while they last.
Standard NEA script never changes....
- Professional educators sacrifice & work hard for low pay.
- School systems always need more money to improve education.
- If you disagree then you are a bad person who wants to deprive the children.
Just ask any of the teachers that hang out on my dock at the lake all summer drinking G&Ts.
Well, after drinking all those G&Ts at the lake with your teacher friends, follow them into the classroom this fall. Volunteer to help those G&T drinking teachers who educate and share in the task of raising your children. It's easy work man!
You wouldn't last two days before pissing yourself and running out of the building.
all you republitards need to face reality then. You're weaker. You lost. You can't do anything about it but piss and moan. Blame everyone else. It's all the libtards.
Face it, you lost against a libtard gay lower IQ POTUS....and he's not even a citizen of the US!
YOU LOST! and you're losing still.
You lose the presidency, the judges, congress, and even the senate. You lost in state, and municipal elections.
It's always somebody else who created the problems. That's because you are all weak.
Piss and moan, piss and moan.
Remember to get out and vote! This time will be different!
You are a very small thinker. How does your comment address the facts presented here? It doesn't. It isn't who wins or loses elections, it's that the electorate has lost its liberty and doesn't know any better because they are not educated enough about liberty to care. That happens across America regardless of income. Philadelphia just points this out demonstratively.
Until we demand better from ourselves, our children and our schools, we will have more of the same.
Think big picture, not neener neener ha-ha. We are screwed if your thinking prevails. And it probably will.
You sound like a Nazi in 1933. "Hehe we won, the rest of you are losers, you are weak, we are strong."
you cant change culture. and you cant help people who dont want to be helped. spend all the $ you want, if eduation is not valued in thier culture, they still wont go to school. while generally against 'vouchers' this is a perfect example of where the school system needs to be reset. close the system down, offer to private charter schools 75% of the current per pupil expenses with the incentive that if graduation rates and test scores they can get 100% of the current spending level.
where theres a profit, theres a way.
Philly needs to resurrect Frank Rizzo.
Once people realized they can vote themselves stuff; paid for by other people's money, the system spirals down the drain.
In 1980, the economy sucked ass and people voted for the guy that could get them back to work so they could feed their families.
In 2012, the economy sucked ass and the people voted for the guy that could keep the free shit flowing.
The Republicans and especially the Libertarians don't have a shot. A majority of the population is always looking for someone else to do work and pay for their stuff.
One of my high school kid's friends told me the other day that if we divided all of the wealth in the US, everyone could make $200k a year. I looked at her and said well that would be nice. You could clean toilets for $200k / year and I will be an ice cream man for $200k / year and so and so can be a doctor for $200k / year and at school the cafeteria worker will get $200k and the principal with get $200k and everyone will be happy.
The look was priceless.
The secret owners of the Fed, the foundations, government at all levels, the media and our educational system are the Jesuits through their Rothschild banker agents.
In their plan to protect their enormously lucrative and powerful banker scams, they have engaged in a chemically dumbing down of the population through the introduction of poisons in our water, food and medicine.
A CDC researcher came forward recently revealing that a 2002 study showing a 340% increase in black child autism from vaccines. The data was suppressed with a no-link conclusion given to the public. See
http://www.naturalnews.com/046661_Dr_Andrew_Wakefield_CDC_whistleblower_...
Researchers suspect blacks suffer autism disproportionately because they get less vitamin D through their black skin from sunlight.
This would explain their poor academic performance and 50% dropout rate in Philadelphia because they suffer disproportionately from toxic injury.
Vaccines contain toxic aluminum, mercury, MSG neurotoxin and formaldahyde embalming fluid and require vitamin D for their removal. This is all part of the Jesuit's Poisoning Agenda descrobed here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB3xcN_eoPo
Our hidden Jesuit rulers have promoted welfare laws to increase the black population to increase diversity in America in order to minimise a common culteral heritage that poses a threat to their NWO agenda.
Divide and conquer is their diversionary strategy that protects their Fed banking scams from detection and possible removal.
See Jesuit Control Of The Banking System - Eric Jon Phelps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AWXOxWpizc&index=4&list=PL0y96vQIC-WfFs...
and their control & history
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F31TmQ9GwU
Blacks have amazing ceative and intellectual energy as evidenced by their music from 1960-90 and their many intellectuals like Malcolm X and MLK.
We all need to stop the Jesuit Agenda of poisoning and disabling the health of America through toxic injury. It's time we rid ourselves of this organized crime scouge posing as a religious order. They have been controlling every facet of American life since they took over in the 1913 Fed Act.
I'm not afraid or guilty conscience by saying that I am a mercenary professor, who takes better pay my services.
I'm not afraid of unions, am not affiliated with any union, and when I pressed the syndicate threatened with lawsuit for harassment. The same thing I did with a Pedagogical Director of a private school that would teach me to teach - was wife of the owner of the school.
I hated teaching at University - Federal and State - and explain why:
Teachers with Phd, Doctorate, Masters and think they have like the King in the belly, find themselves the epitome of intellect when challenged show the papers on the wall as if it were proof of good sense.
Neither is good comment on the fights between Departments, ugly fights over money, real war.
Another ugly thing that was witnessed several times when elections for Rector / Director. Unionized teachers screaming as terrorists of the Middle East on tables trying to garner attention for their cause - frankly, depressing and ridiculous attempt to cry on awareness rather than by ideas.
There is more to tell, the satisfaction of being Teacher.
Say below.
:-)
I taught for four years in a town in the state of Goiás, a town of 75,000 inhabitants, agricultural economics - soybeans and corn - two mineraçõs Niobium, two factories - Mitsubishi - trucks - and John Dree - harvesters.
Very rich city, offered me a salary three times higher than that earned in the State of São Paulo as Professor and quality of life much better, cost of living below average - rental house with two rooms less than one fifth of that would pay in Sao Paulo. City with excellent water quality, average altitude of 1000 meters - at night it cools, it takes blanket.
Do not think twice, kicked the bucket and sent me there to bag and baggage.
First day of school introduced myself, met the clientele, 90% of GDP - Gross Domestic Product - the city was represented there in the form of children.
I felt right away that those children who spent their holidays in Florida, NY, Paris etc. would be a phenomenal challenge.
I like challenges.
I am Professor of Geography - Geographer - and teach the other side of things as geopolitics, environmental interactions - geology, biome, social relations to that pile of rich daddy's little children - including many children of politicians, were the worst - needed a strategy .
To be continued ...
My father always taught: Think, Plan, Practice.
In the second quarter - Q2, hehe - I sent e-mail to parents proposing Practicals Field - this in 1997! - No burden on the Sabbath afternoon, and that if they agreed, also submitted a pdf form so that they printed and signed agreeing to leave their children in my care during these classes.
All very well explained with the paths to be followed, the risks involved in such an event etc . That was on a Friday in the early evening.
My surprise came on Monday when over 90% of students came with authorizations signed by parents agreeing.
I still do not know if they agreed for their children to be a pest - and wanted the Saturday afternoon free - or even wanted children to learn something.
I tell you who did not expect such a large membership to my project then divide the classes.
The first class was a class of 30 fifth graders two Saturdays later.
To be continued ....
On Saturday first felt I needed helpers then called eighth graders for a practice pre-field class where we walked over five miles through the woods, past-central pivot, roadblocks where the geology is well assimilated etc. .
This first class deserves a paragraph. A son of Iranians, a son of the President of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Goiás, a son of Americans who have farm in the region, a son of Chief Mine Niobium. The first is now an Electrical Engineer, has spent a year in Israel in a religion that I forgot the name, the second is Doctor, is the third engineer graduated at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering - FEI, one of the hardest to get into Brazil, and did stage at MIT - the third lost contact.
There was another son who was Manager of the Bank, this guy was my cameramem, this was not very successful in life, owns six or seven department stores, earns $ droves and has no where to stick Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
Well, that was my precursor over four years I taught at that school posting.
To be continued ....
On the second Saturday, I and my five henchmen joined the first class of fifth grade, 27 students / pupils and started walking. The only problem that occurred was a daughter of Indian chubby deviated from that class in the woods and got stuck up to his waist in mud, was a hard time to get the girl that situation.
On the third Saturday was a group of seventh grade, some girls of 14 years old had never entered a public bus, and did not even know needed to pay Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, they only walked with parents or drivers in luxury cars.
On the fourth Saturday took the class of sixth grade, the fifth Saturday of the eighth grade class, the more adults.
This class gave a little work, I do not allow drugs.
When I smelled in the woods during a rest stop, I gave a moral lesson that - learned after years - those girls mounted an anti-drug NGO in the city.
Emerged a better proposal in Annapolis and left town, I cried a lot but business is business.
Maintain contact until today most of these former students, now and then asks some advice, consider me as a second father.
That's the joy, the pleasure of being Teacher, knowing that at some point in a child's life you made ??a difference.
This is sublime!
Alexandre. *
*Isso é texto próprio, não encontrar na Rede.
É um relato e desabafo de um Professor que está para se aposentar.
I enjoyed reading your posts in English. It is nice hearing what is happening in other countries.
FredFlintstone:
There is a browser called Google Chrome.
It automatically translates any language that uses the Roman or Cyrillic alphabet (Chinese and Japanese I did not dare).
It is what I use to talk here.
Kind regards.
Alexandre - Brazil.
Ah, I just talk to my Iranian student, he is Bahal!
hehe.
How did you get to $44,100 citing only $13,829, $4,447 & $165? If you're going to cite specifics to prove your point, please go the whole 9 yards.
"Medical insurance averages $13,829 per worker, up by $1,000. Then there are health and welfare benefits, which are additional health perks, such as prescription eye benefits. H&W, as it’s known, costs an average of $4,447 more per teacher. They even offer legal services to workers at a cost of $165 per worker.
For the average teacher earning $68,700 annually, benefit costs pile on an additional $44,100"
Pension and health insurance? Work 30 years and then retire and collect for 30 to 40 years.
Or collect for six months, 2 years or 6 years. Not everybody lives to 90. Besides, it's their god damn investment not yours. And if like teachers in Michigan, that retirement health insurance is prepaid at 3% per paycheck until retirement.
You might want to mind your own fucking business Fred. Or at the very least, stop pulling facts out of your ass.
Retire at 52 live to 86. In Ohio there is a very large taypayer funded match and if it is underfunded or goes belly-up guess who they will look to for salvation? I say confiscate all public pensions and put these fuckers on SS. Let them all work 40 to 45 years.
Irregardless of how much money these teachers make, schools are only as good as the families that send their kids to the school. It all starts at home. If the school is located in an area with bad parents! what do you all expect? It's hard fucking work raising kids!, but if teachers are burdened with kids that come from awful families, it makes it that much more difficult.
No, I'm not a teacher! I do have 2 kids that go to private school, and I'll tell you what it's like having a 2nd full time job just trying to keep up with it all! Our school teachers make less that 40K and work their asses off!
Super Hans:
I already said that, as Professor, I did not put my kids in public school - no way.
I know how it is.
My boys are now doing Civil Engineering at the University in the same class, the youngest bride has is in the same class and will marry on December 6, 2014.
I'm sorry but at your text, you are those who are outsourcing the education of their children to the media.
Dude, take the education of their children, ask them about the homework you have to do, learn a bit from them.
Inteirim this, you will learn about biology, geology, genetics, history and other subjects forgot more.
Are very likely to increase the knowledge of their children since, Education is shit.
You know much more than they are learning today.
Trust me, I am Teacher and parent.
:-)
I worked in public education for a while as a substitute teacher in Nashville, generally inner city areas with heavy concentrations of minorities and immigrants. The only conclusion I drew is that public education is a daycare subsidy for those who shouldn't be reproducing in great numbers. One of the many highlights was a very 'diverse' middle school where only one kid out of thirty two could locate the United States on a map.
The system encourages single mother households which we all know is a disaster for everyone involved. It should be mandatory for all white liberals, who never actually visit minority neighborhoods but love minorities and the welfare state because it bolsters their political power, to work as a substitute teacher sans the benefits given to regular teachers. After six months if their eyes weren't opened to the insanity of their views, then they are hopeless.
I feel very bad, especially for African American young men who do want to suceed and do the right thing. They don't have a good marriage market in their community. The welfare state totally destroyed the family in that community. There's no chance of success with the illegitimacy rate.
End Public Education. End EBT. Restore the need for men to be productive and providers.End the delusion that every kid should go to college.
Honestly, I never knew that the situation is such schools was that critical. I mean I knew that it wasn’t all great over there. But this is just way too much, especially now that I am also reading a comment of a former teacher of the similar school. Not being able to locate USA on the map is just outrages. Is this future that we can look forward to? It is one thing when children turn to cheap essays online services, but it another thing that they actually know nothing about their country.