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Five businessmen and five businesswomen will be dropped into an elementary school classroom for 6 weeks.
Each businessperson will be provided with a copy of his/her school district's curriculum, and a class of 32 students.
Each class will have five learning-disabled children, three with A. D. D., one gifted child, two who speak limited English and three more will be labeled with “severe behavior problems”.
Each businessperson must complete lesson plans at least 3 days in advance with annotations for curriculum objectives and modify, organize, or create materials accordingly.
They will be required to teach students, handle misconduct, implement technology, document attendance, write referrals, correct homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, complete report cards, document benchmarks, communicate with parents, and arrange parent conferences, while maintaining a smile at all times.
They must also supervise recess and monitor the hallways. In addition, they will complete drills for fire, tornadoes, and shooting attacks.
They must attend 100 hours of workshops, faculty meetings, union meetings, and curriculum development meetings.
They must also tutor those students who are behind and strive to get their two non-English speaking children proficient enough to take the mandatory state assessment tests.
If they are sick or having a bad day, they must not let it show.
Each day they must incorporate reading, writing, math, science, and social studies into their program.
They must maintain discipline and provide an educationally stimulating environment at all times.
The business people will only have access to the golf course on the weekends, but on their new salary, they will not be able to afford it anyway.
There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch, and lunch will be limited to 30 minutes. On days when they do not have recess duty, the business people will be permitted to use the staff restroom as long as another survival candidate is supervising their class.
They will be provided two, 40-minute planning periods per week while their students are at activity classes. If the office copier is operable, they may make copies of necessary materials at this time.
The business people must continually advance their education on their own time, and pay for this advanced training themselves. This can be accomplished by moonlighting at a second job or marrying someone with money.
The winner will be allowed to return to his or her job.
Pass this to your friends who think teaching is easy and to the ones that know it is hard. They will both benefit.
DIANA’S COMMENT: IF A TEACHER ACTUALLY WROTE THE ABOVE, SHAME ON THEM.
THE SYNTAX IS ALL WRONG!
READERS RESPONSE- by Steve in Maryland
Wow seems like a tough job....no quotas or goals to meet...guaranteed
employment (with tenure) regardless of how poorly you perform your job
(anybody else know of such a job?) YES, BECOME A MEMBER OF CONGRESS!
Wow! kids are graduating from high school as walking morons....cannot read or write,
perform basic mathematics, find the United States on a globe, tell you when World War
II started or even speak basic English.
In to work at 8 am out at 3 pm...spare me the after hours work speech, yours is not the only profession which requires after hours commitments.
Vacation for 2 weeks at Christmas...another week or so in the spring...six to seven weeks off in the summer...What would I do with all of that time off?
Don't give me crap about meetings...you think teachers are the only people who have meetings? Oh, and the union meetings - Give Me a Break!...probably the most influential problem in today's education system...GET RID OF THE UNIONS!
You must have a preconceived notion that lunch in the business community
runs two hours and consist of 3-4 martinis. I wish! If I eat lunch, I usually work through it.
Golf...well some of the best meetings I’ve had are on the golf course. You can play all summer long. All jobs have their perks.
No bitching about your salary....don't like it, get a different job. You don't have to be a teacher…with job security there is a cost....just like the stock market, little risk - little reward....
the greater the risk the higher the reward.
Planning periods during the workday? I should be so lucky. My planning periods start around 5:30 am and sometimes extend until 1 am.
We all have to advance our education and training to stay competitive (or is that a bad word in school?) REAL LIFE is hugely competitive. By the way, most school systems I know offer educational financial assistance, most businesses do not.
Back to competition for a moment: Do you teachers realize how much damage is being done to children by eliminating competition in schools? In the real world we compete in sports, relationships, for jobs and promotions, businesses compete for customers, churches compete for members, actors compete for salaries and box office numbers, students compete for scholarships, siblings compete for attention and affection from their parents, athletes compete to make it to the Olympics and once they arrive they compete for medals. Radio hosts compete for ratings, listeners, affiliates and sponsors. Competition is part of life and it should be taught at school! Isn’t preparing children for the real world the objective of going to school in the first place? Teachers are the ones disabling our children by disallowing competition! Children need
To know how to handle success and failure. Some schools have eliminated the prestigious HONOR ROLL because it makes the lazy unmotivated students feel stupid. Stop worrying about their feelings, they will get over it. Competition will actually improve a child’s self esteem! For God's sake bring back dodge ball.... Oops was that another bad word? Not dodge ball...God?
You may have a difficult job but you also have loads of security, very little risk of losing your job, a great pension, great benefits, more time off than any other profession. Teachers are much better off than they think, and lead others to believe.
You are a teacher, you chose that road. Do you tolerate poor service at a restaurant? Most people don’t, they either leave or don’t go back. Do you put up with a lying cheating spouse? Most people don’t. When something doesn’t suit you or you’re displeased with it, change it.
Stop your whining, grumbling, poor me complaining.
It seems as if society as a whole, so many of you teachers have a "sense of entitlement".
Get over it...we live in the greatest country on earth and the opportunities are bountiful.
It may not be perfect but you can achieve anything you want - just be prepared to work for it.
THE REAL WORLD FOR THE REST OF US!
If teachers actually worked the same number of weeks most people work, in some states their pay would exceed $67,000.00 Not bad, not bad at all!
JUST THE FACTS- http://www.aft.org/salary/2004/download/releases/SalarySurvey-MD.pdf
2004 Survey & Analysis -- Average Maryland teacher salary- $50,303.00 per year
Summer vacation: 10 weeks-from 6/16/06 to 8/21/06
“Winter break” 10 days off between Christmas & New Year
“Spring break” 4 week days off in April
“Professional development days”
Holidays & Time off-2005-2006 school year Month- # of days
September-5th Labor Day-- 19th for professional development Sept-2
October-4th Rosh Hashana Oct-3
October-13th -Yom Kippur Nov-2
October-21st Teacher conference Dec-5
November-23rd Thanksgiving- 24th day after Jan-3
December-26th 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, Christmas Feb-1
Janaury- 1st NYDay, 2nd, day after NYday, 16th MLK Birthday Mar-2
February-20th President’s day Apr-4
March-27th 28th-Professional Development days May-1
April-Spring break 13th, 14th, 17th, 18th June-10
May-Memorial Day – 29th 33 days
June- what no time off-oh wait, that starts on the 16th
Summer vacation-from 6/16/06 to 8/21/06 10 weeks
TOTAL ANNUAL WEEK DAYS OFF 83 DAYS OFF
TEACHERS
365 days per year minus weekends = 104 week end days [Saturday & Sunday]
365 minus 104 = 261 week days
261 minus 83 weekdays off = 178 school days per year
178 days divided by 5 days per week--equals 35.5 weeks
Average salary in Maryland $50,303.00
50,303 divided by 178 days = 282.60 per day
Or $1,413.00 per week
Multiply 1,413.00 by 48 weeks [ number of weeks most people work each year]
If teachers worked the same number of weeks most people worked they’re pay would exceed $67,824.00 per year.
Teacher income is higher than most people think, and the time off perks are exceptional!
83 days a year! What the heck is that? What would you do?
STOP THE WHINING!
NON-TEACHERS
Most people have only 10 holidays and if they’re lucky 2 weeks vacation
That’s 20 weekdays off per year or 4 weeks total time off not counting weekends
48 total weeks worked per year
365 days per year – 104 weekend days = 260 work days
260 – 20 days off = 240 actual work days per year
If teachers in Maryland worked the same number of weeks most people worked they’re pay would exceed $67,824.00 per year.
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