Value of Educators

[alfihar]

(From a personal rant that I felt was worth sharing

Comments

[anfalicious]

Contrary to popular belief we only get six weeks of annual leave, not twelve. You're expected to be working on the other six weeks. The other thing that shits me is people say "oh, you only work from 9-3, that must be easy" as if we have secretaries that do all our lesson planning, marking, photocopying etc. Then there is the professional development; 50 hours a year to stay registered. And then there's the meetings, the endless, endless meetings. A full time teaching load is in reality around 50 hours a week, with a break on holidays down to probably about 20. And you're always thinking about it.

I'm assuming this came from my FB, that bloke works in IT, the most overpaid occupation after sales people and managers.

[anfalicious]

My comment is worth reposting

[alfihar]

Look.. we all know it wasnt computer scientists that made the internet, it was Al Gore

[hypergirlie]

We take education for granted that's for sure. Even our least educated people in Australia are worlds more advanced than those in other countries. I really struggled to understand how someone could quite literally not know anything. We don't know that because our education system is good enough that everyone has at least some education. I think some people think that if there were no schools anymore children would still continue to be intelligent because somehow they are born with it.

[anfalicious]

Or even worse they think "I can send my kid to private school" without taking that thought to the logical conclusion that they'll be living in a post apocalyptic wasteland where they have to keep a gun beside their bed to stop the uneducated masses breaking in to steal their TV (ie the USA).

[hypergirlie]

Well in the USA many families think their kids are better off being taught by them than being sent to school. That is a sorry state of affairs. I still doubt the teachers are really that bad but the system is completely stacked against them. A result of all the scumbags in office winning votes by cutting taxes that would have fed into the school system.