Would you urge your child to become a public school teacher?
| Yes. If that is what they want to do. | 47% | 91 votes |
| No. I would guide them toward another profession. | 52% | 102 votes |
| 193 total votes | ||
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Posted by kaym on March 6, 2008 at 5:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Urge" is the wrong word here -- they can be whatever they want to be where they can pay their bills and have food and shelter! That is what most parents hope for.
Posted by ForPnC on March 7, 2008 at 3:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)
hm... Really lousy pay, extremely long hours, no respect from students, parents, or supervisors, and not allowed to discipline for fear of raising the rankles of folks...
No. I wouldn't urge anyone to become a teacher. Not nowadays. Let's bring back a few rights the teachers had twenty years ago and double their pay then I might change my tune.
Posted by Paul on March 7, 2008 at 6:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Bring back mild punishment in the schools like it was 20 years ago. There wasn't the discipline problem then as it is now.
Posted by justafan on March 7, 2008 at 11:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
You can thank your local lawyer for the lack of discipline in the public school system. Teachers and administrators are terrified of being sued for saying or doing the wrong thing to a student. Instead they choose to let the kid develop into a criminal that will need that same lawyer, one day, to keep his ass out of jail.
It’s ironic that you can’t even mention religion or praying in school yet, when one of the aforementioned criminals comes walking through the front door with a gun the first thing people start doing is praying. I haven’t been in church in years but isn’t this a little backwards.
Posted by paulleah ( Paul Crawford ) on March 6, 2008 at 6:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You are right. Urge is probably a little strong. Encourage would have probably been a better choice. Unfortunately, to charge the wording now would not be fair to those who have already voted.
Paul Crawford
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